Banggais are now happy family!

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by tim the toolman

If you can get them isolated you've won half he battle. As others have stated the male will try and spit the babies if you go to net him. If you can set up a smaller tank than 10g so it will involve less bbs to saturate the water. A sponge filter works very well for the baby tank, as it does not generate much flow and is easy to clean. A few small plastic decorations are also useful for them to have somewhere to hide. Start practicing raising bbs with a fairly routine schedule. Basically you will require a new batch every other day. Selcon enrichment and some bbs food is also helpful for keeping the shrimp alive. Either phytoplankton ( expensive if you don't brew your own ) or some home recipe food. A good quick food for bbs is taking a cup of water and adding 2 teaspoons of organic baby food. 1 tsp of sweet potatoes and 1 tsp of peas. Mixed very well and you can use it to feed your bbs.

Thanks for the great infos

Any approximate tablespoon measurement to feed the fries everyday? Like 1 tablespoon eggs should be hatched per day or something like that? That's where I am confused :P

[tim the toolman]

Not nearly that much actually. If can get a good brand of eggs and keep them refrigerated you sold get about 90 percent hatch rate. You will need about 30% of a teaspoon of eggs to make a decent amount of bbs. They are really only nutrient rich for about the first 18-24 hrs without selcon enrichment which is why it is best to always have a fresh batch ready to go. After they have been enriched they will take about 18 hrs again for them to be nutrient rich and after a couple to 3 days of growth they will start being a little larger than what fresh hatched baby bangaii will go after. Once you get past the difficult 15th day of life with the babies you can safely start making larger batches of bbs and keeping them alive longer as the fish will now be eating larger specimens. At this point it is also best to start trying to introduce so e Cyclopeeze or something like it with e live feelings to try and get them to switch over to eating dead.

[mrhasan]

Ah that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up

Originally Posted by tim the toolman

Not nearly that much actually. If can get a good brand of eggs and keep them refrigerated you sold get about 90 percent hatch rate. You will need about 30% of a teaspoon of eggs to make a decent amount of bbs. They are really only nutrient rich for about the first 18-24 hrs without selcon enrichment which is why it is best to always have a fresh batch ready to go. After they have been enriched they will take about 18 hrs again for them to be nutrient rich and after a couple to 3 days of growth they will start being a little larger than what fresh hatched baby bangaii will go after. Once you get past the difficult 15th day of life with the babies you can safely start making larger batches of bbs and keeping them alive longer as the fish will now be eating larger specimens. At this point it is also best to start trying to introduce so e Cyclopeeze or something like it with e live feelings to try and get them to switch over to eating dead.

[mrhasan]

Picture of the male carrying the eggs

[tim the toolman]

Mine has a brood right now as well.

[SpikeJones]

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Originally Posted by SpikeJones

Pass me some popcorns Jones.