Bangaii Breeding Journal

EmilyB · #1 03-31-2008, 05:51 AM

I never had any problem with surviving babies that were left in the tank. Sure there were 30, then 20, then I scooped out 10 and they were all good to go at their size. Maybe you could just segregate them with some mesh or something?

Only one I ever left tanked was the one Christy took home and he had a homemade urchin...

Myka · #2 03-31-2008, 02:21 PM

I want ALL of them to survive!

mseepman · #3 03-31-2008, 03:53 PM

Very cool thread...I'm not sure I'm cut out for breeding like this though because I can't imagine being able to hold onto any of my fish while prying their mouths open...I have enough trouble holding onto my 10lb baby and prying her mouth open...lol.

Myka · #4 04-01-2008, 12:42 AM

He's getting used to the routine. He's easier to catch, and after I just pry a little bit he gives up and spits them out for me. Poor lil guy...

JOEL · #5 04-22-2008, 10:37 PM

Hi Myka

I posted this a while back and I think I made the right choice.
How can you tell if you have a male and female I just got two today and from what I
could see at the lfs there was three in one tank one on one side and two together I tried
to push them together but the one was chased away about four times. do you think I may have a par I hope so.

Well I think I have a pair and it looks like the male may have eggs (cool)
His mouth looks big and he's not eating.
If you have any advice for me It would be greatly appreciated

Joel

Myka · #6 04-23-2008, 03:07 AM

My best advice is to read this journal.

If you have specific questions that aren't answered in the journal, feel free to ask. If your plans are to raise them, where/how to you plan to house them?

Myka · #7 04-30-2008, 03:41 AM

Ok, so the Bangers are getting good at this breeding thing, although it sure took them a LONG time between batches this time. It's 5 1/2 weeks since I stripped the male last, and the time before that it was only 1 1/2 weeks between stripping. I wonder what they'll even out to... The female was looking huge, and this morning Mr Banger is ridiculously full of eggs!!! I don't think he could possibly hold one more in there.

On the other hand, the babies who are now 5 1/2 weeks old are doing well. I'm fairly certain there are 23 of them in there today. I'm having troubles getting them onto dry food. They're pretty keen on the BBS, and if I try to starve them into eating dry food they start dying. Not sure what to do about that...I'm going to try just feeding BBS twice per day, and feeding dry the rest of the day. The next batch I'm going to get onto dry sooner in hopes they'll get used to it easier. They're starting to get pretty crowded in the breeder "trap" thingy, so I'm going to have to figure out something to do with them soon because Mr Banger is going to be needing to be stripped in 25 days, so I'll need the breeder trap for them. Maybe I'll set up my 40g...