2-12-12

Got a bit of a generic title for today's belated post. No pictures and it's a mixed bag of sorts of various topics. I just had my 4th set of Bangaii Cardinal Fry! Which an audience watching me catch and separate the fry from the male parent. I'm also in the market to consider breeding Seahorses as my next attempt on aquaculture. Split between H. reidi, H. erectus, and H. zosterae as my top choices.

So I'm the new parent of 26 new Bangaii Fry, which is a pretty good number according to the records I'm keeping. I've been trying to track a number of things now on my spreadsheets, which funny enough was complicated enough that I accidentally read one of the number I put in wrong as was expecting the fry to be ready on the 18th, not 11th, and realized I switched a couple numbers around, so you can imagine my surprise when I was feeding the female and the male swims up to me and I see a glint of a silver eye and no sign of the orange egg yolk. I promptly went to my computer and stared at the numbers for a minute before I realized what was happening and has a nice long night getting everything ready. As of right now I have 16, 33, 18, and 26 fry as my four groups of babies from oldest to youngest. In an effort to try to keep posts here going I'm going to try to use this blog more as my note taking site sort of like what I've been writing in my personal notes, and focus a little less on pictures, and see if people find it fun to read or just too technical, which then I'll go back to more visual entries.

Seahorses. Still a hot topic even today. I try to takes votes on what they'd like to see me do next, which included Diamond Gobies, Sabae Clownfish, Peppermint Shrimp, or just more Bangaiis. Of course it's a resounding yes on the Seahorses so I'm in the market for them right now. Looking around to find a place that sells them healthy and preferably wild caught because when it comes to brood stock, it appears they don't do well if you inbred them at all because they're so prone to diseases and parasites. If I get a tank bred pair, I don't know if the two are siblings or not as compared to wild. Supporting wild caught fish isn't something I would normally support but when it comes to breeding, taking in a couple pairs of fish to potentially return dozens of offspring as alternatives to the market should be worth it. I'll post more on this once there's any headway in locating a good pair on the west coast or start setting up the tanks for them.