[Lostepitoke]

I have a small 29gal tank with 55pounds of live rock. I gave a sorted corals and three fish. Two yellow tail damsels and a blue chorus. There are no predators so my biodiversity of life is high. Well I was checking it out about ten day ago and noticed a few little fry. No yolk sacks or anything. From what I've read thier almost impossible to raise. Mine have been alive for ten days and I believe they've were living off of my copepods larvae. I bow grind up some shrimp tablets into powder and use a turkey baster to deliver them food. I've tried mixing in some live photoplanton but I don't know if their eating it. I know after feeding I see them out swimming a lot more. Sometimes I see them dive through a cloud of what has to be baby copepods or routines, so there earing and growing. One is much larger than the others I've seen. I'm thinking he's from another brood. I should mention I don't have any real mechanical filter, just a aqua clear that's basically just chemical filter and a protein skimmer. Has any one raised any like this with out trying? I read it impossible to raise the fry, but after ten days you'd think they'd already be dead from starvation. Any advice or tips? I got video of them. I'll see if I can load it on here.

 

[Lostepitoke]

The food their eating. I can't figure out how to load a video I have of the actual fish

 

[Little Fish]

That's cool! You must have a good environment for brooding to take place.

I say keep doing what you are doing they must be eating or I think they would have died by now..

 

[weimers75]

I hate to be a downer but I doubt they're damsels. Damsels are good egg keepers, so you'd not only notice the eggs, but once they hatch they have a larval stage. Unlike freshwater fish, damsels do not hatch as miniature adults, they go through a metamorphosis stage. When they're in their larval stage and even if they made it to the meta stage, they'd be food for your fish (including the parents) and your corals. In a tank that small there's simply nowhere they could hide that long. That's why the accounts you've seen say they're nearly impossible to raise.

If you research clownfish breeding (which are damsels), you'll notice that they are all raised AWAY from the parents and in a separate tank for this reason. They also couldn't survive your aquaclear...they're extremely fragile for the first few months and breeders use just an airstone for circulation and rely on water changes for good chemistry.

 

[LargeAngels]

Pictures would be good. Many have mistaken mysis shrimp for fish larvae.

 

[weimers75]

I'm thinking mysis as well.

 

[Lostepitoke]

Video of some of the babies. I will get better shots tonight

 

[Lostepitoke]

Videos I hope

 

[Lostepitoke]

Video for real this time

 

[weimers75]

I'm not seeing any video?

 

[LargeAngels]

Me either. If they are still the same size I'm almost positive they are mysis.

 

[Lostepitoke]

There so small.ira hard to get a picture and. I trust post a video but it never shows up. What am I doing wrong. I've been keeping marine fish and corals for 30 years years and know the day between. A mysis shrimp and a baby fish with a clearly defined head and tale. I was feeling them crushed up shrimp tablets. I feared that I was fouling the tank so I quit. I don't see them as much any more. If they were mysis wouldnt I still see larva, beside I've never see an adult my mysis shrimp in my tank to breed and produce more. But I got millions of pods of all. Sort. Turns. A flash light on in the middle of the night and the scurryike **** roaches. There's no predators I'm my tank that's been up and running for about 10 months now. Oh yeah I didn't start seeing babya untill after the yelloytales were introduced. They spawn under a huge piece of rock covered in Palythoas. The dug a little tunnel under it and I believe their. Breading there. Did I mention that I don't have any mechanical filtration at all. Just a protein skimmer and a hob that contains carbon since there are some soft corals in the tank.

 

[weimers75]

You do have predators...all the fish in the tank are predators, including the parents. The hob filter and the protein skimmer would both kill baby fish as well before the larval stage.

I'm not sure about loading a video...but its not coming through. They would be quite a bit larger by now and you'd be able to get a photograph. They grow very quickly.

 

[Lostepitoke]

The babies

 

[Lostepitoke]

I can't get a video to load it clearly shows baby fish.. I didn't mention at the time I first saw them I had no filter or portion skimmer. That cam a couple of weeks later. I don't see them any more but I'm sure they were baby yellow tale damsels. I got a video if one of you want to send me you emails I'll gladly send it to you so I cam be vindicated I'm not a amateur and I know the difference between shrimp larvae and copepods its neither p

 

[weimers75]

What about uploading the video to youtube and pasting a link?

 

[bailsur]

The Yellowtail Damselfish is an aggressive saltwater fish--some would say semi-aggressive, but in my experience, they will defend their territories from interlopers, which essentially is any other fish that wants to swim around the tank tellculvers com survey taco bell breakfast hours

 

[lewisrassel]

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I have a small 29gal tank with 55pounds of live rock. I gave a sorted corals and three fish. Two yellow tail damsels and a blue chorus. There are no predators so my biodiversity of life is high. Well I was checking it out about ten day ago and noticed a few little fry. No yolk sacks or anything. From what I've read thier almost impossible to raise. Mine have been alive for ten days and I believe they've were living off of my copepods larvae. I bow grind up some shrimp tablets into powder and use a turkey baster to deliver them food. I've tried mixing in some live photoplanton but I don't know if their eating it. I know after feeding I see them out swimming a lot more. Sometimes I see them dive through a cloud of what has to be baby copepods or routines, so there earing and growing. One is much larger than the others I've seen. I'm thinking he's from another brood. I should mention I don't have any real mechanical filter, just a aqua clear that's basically just chemical filter and a protein skimmer. Has any one raised any like this with out trying? I read it impossible to raise the fry, but after ten days you'd think they'd already be dead from starvation. Any advice or tips? I got video of them. I'll see if I can load it on here.

I say keep doing what you are doing they must be eating or I think they would have died by now..