| General |
| Name: |
Matt Pedersen ( mPedersen ) Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club |
| Species: |
Meiacanthus bundoon ( Class: B, Points: 40 ) 
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| Link to Journal: |
http://www.lsmac.org/smf/index.php?topic=173.msg1003
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| Settlement Start Date: |
12/19/2010
22 Days After Hatching
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| Settlement End Date: |
01/11/2011
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| Tank Parameters |
| Temperature: |
80F |
| PH: |
not tested |
| Specific Gravity: |
1.025 |
Size:
(Gallons) |
16 gallon BRT |
| Dimensions: |
20 X
20 X
20
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| Lighting: |
1 clamp light with a 22 watt compact flourescent 5500K bulb
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| Lighting Schedule: |
Was on 24/7 but in the last couple weeks started turning it off at night
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| Filtration: |
none. Only added them to the central filtration at 2-3 drops per second rate maybe 1-9-2011.
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| Settlement Details |
| Date of Hatch |
11/27/2010
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| Hatch Time: |
over the daylight hours |
Fry Count:
( at Hatch ) |
Did not keep track, but guestimating maybe 40-50 |
Fry Count:
( at Settlement ) |
2 settled, but one disappeared shortly thereaver |
| Fry Size: |
16 mm (guestimated) |
| Food: |
Not sure if they are having issues weaning or not. Have been offering crushed flake foods (Formula 1, Ocean Nutrition Spirulina), Otohime B1 and B2, freeze dried cyclopeeze (not the wafers, the whole copepods). Have also offered in live Tigriops copepods, and enriched not-so-baby brine. |
| Feeding Schedule: |
at least 3 times daily |
Fry Description:
(Pre Settlement) |
They start out with a massive head, black, huge, with a very thin wispy body. They look almost like "sperm", but more cartoonish. |
Fry Description:
(Post Settlement) |
The body slowly lengthens and fills out. The last coloration to appear is the black lyretail. |
| Other Details |
| Other Information: |
This project was hammered by cold temperatures in the basement...an ongoing problem. Additionally, a hydroid problem in the larval rearing setup wiped out most of a promising run. Weaning seems to have also been an issue...a week earlier I had 6 offspring, and now I'm down to one, likely because I did not continue to feed live brine shrimp multiple times per day. Not sure if we'll make it to 60 days post hatch with the one remaining baby. |