dippin61 Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I have what i believe is hundreds of eggs from my pair of yellow tailed damsels. First time id ever seen them mate, let alone knew one was female, and the other male. lol. Anyways, was looking in the tank today by where their burrow is, and i noticed a bunch of what looked like small eyes, attached to a wall of live rock. Theres tons of them there. I can only assume she laid eggs? Free food for the tank i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPSCALES Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Damsels are egg layers. I have a pair of yellowtails that lay like once a month. Travis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JManrow Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Yellowtail Damsels (Chrysiptera parasema) are egglayers. Raising larvae is very similar to raising Clownfish (Amphiprion). There are some accounts of spawning and rearing at The Breeder's Registry http://www.breedersregistry.org/ . Here is the report of a related species, Chrysiptera cyanea : http://www.breedersregistry.org/database/CHRCYA01.htm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JManrow Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 *Note - we are currently working on establishing as many phytoplankton, rotifer, and copepod cultures as possible within the range of PNWMAS Membership for spawning occurrences such as this. Sorry, no rotifer cultures going at this time :( (Hopefully very soon!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dippin61 Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palani Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Yeah hopefully soon I can get my rotifers going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
defigart Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 *Note - we are currently working on establishing as many phytoplankton' date=' rotifer, and copepod cultures as possible within the range of PNWMAS Membership for spawning occurrences such as this. Sorry, no rotifer cultures going at this time :( (Hopefully very soon!)[/quote'] What ever came from this? (I am asking in a positive, hopeful manner.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JManrow Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 What ever came from this? (I am asking in a positive' date=' hopeful manner.)[/quote'] I still have phytoplankton cultures(Nannochloropsis) going, Barelycuda has some rotifers. A few other people may have them too. You might ask Barleychown if she still has some copepods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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