Australian Breeding Challenge Poll- winner= coral gobies

[damer]

Ok, sorry to everyone for the delay. i have a bit going on at the moment.

here is a poll to make it all offical. well, at least allow us to get started.

PLEASE

1) only vote if you are genuinely interested in participating, no matter what the outcome is. if you are not going to participate if a certain species doesnt get over the line, then please dont vote. (edit: if the winning species is totally unsuitable for your tank, im sure people wont feel bad towards you not going ahead)

2) only vote if you are prepared to copy all the information onto MOFIB

3) take into consideration ability to get broodstock. ie coral sea fish may be hard to get

4) take into consideration some species are not that easy to breed.


could everyone reply with a "voted" post so we know who is prepared to participate.


Here is some more information from Christian. thanks for that.

Meiacanthus grammistes-striped fang blenny
M. reticulatus - Coral Sea Fang blenny

Broodstock (adult fish) can be a bit tricky to maintain, but are generally robust fish, spawn readily and larvae are easyish to rear on rotifers and BBS.

Assessor flavissumus- yellow assessors
A. macneilli- blue assessors

Not so easy to pair or spawn, but rearing is ment ot be quite easy, again rotifers and bbs.

Pictichromis paccagnellae- royal dottyback
P. diadema- diadem dottyback

Both species easy to get, pairing in bigger tanks is easy, not so easy in small tanks. Rearing will be more difficult. But Doable.

Gobiodon sp. - Coral Gobies.

Probably the easiest to pair, bidirectional sex change, but the harest and smallest to rear, could need s or ss (small or super small) strain rotifers.


Seahorses- species to be determined

Broodstock hard to maintain, juvs easy to rear.

pipefish- species to be determined

Easy to obtain broodstock, easy to spawn, difficult to pair i think? and relatively easy to rear larvae on rots and bbs.

any questions, or if i have stuffed something up, please let me know.




Damien

[PaulG]

Voted

[Hunts25]

Voted

[Chris]

Damien you migth wish to cut and paste this in your orgional post.

Some very basic assessment of different species and their difficulty


Meiacanthus grammistes-striped fang blenny
M. reticulatus - Coral Sea Fang blenny

Broodstock (adult fish) can be a bit tricky to maintain, but are generally robust fish, spawn readily and larvae are easyish to rear on rotifers and BBS.

Assessor flavissumus- yellow assessors
A. macneilli- blue assessors

Not so easy to pair or spawn, but rearing is ment ot be quite easy, again rotifers and bbs.

Pictichromis paccagnellae- royal dottyback
P. diadema- diadem dottyback

Both species easy to get, pairing in bigger tanks is easy, not so easy in small tanks. Rearing will be more difficult. But Doable.

Gobiodon sp. - Coral Gobies.

Probably the easiest to pair, bidirectional sex change, but the harest and smallest to rear, could need s or ss (small or super small) strain rotifers.


Seahorses- species to be determined

Broodstock hard to maintain, juvs easy to rear.

pipefish- species to be determined

Easy to obtain broodstock, easy to spawn, difficult to pair i think? and relatively easy to rear larvae on rots and bbs.

Christian

[damer]

Damien you migth wish to cut and paste this in your orgional post.

Done. thanks for that.

Voted.

[chrismelb]

Voted,

Thanks for organising Damien

[Chris]

have we got an end date for this poll Damien?

CHristian

[Chantelle]

Chris you mention with the seahorses that:

"Seahorses- species to be determined

Broodstock hard to maintain, juvs easy to rear."

Seahorses are hardy and easy to maintain if they are bought as captive bred (CB) and there are several species that are CB and available in Australia. They are also easy to determine the sex and are known to breed readily.

Unfortunately Im not going to be able to put a vote in as I am limited with space/tanks etc and current stock already within the tanks and some of these fish are very incompatible with what I have. Maybe next time?

[Chris]

Chantelle, your probably right, but do you think i could keep the little buggers alive?

I think breeding seahorses is a higher skill in itself, ahh well.

Christian

[damer]

Chris, i set it for 7 days.

could everyone reply with a "voted" post so we know who is prepared to participate.

mmmmm strange, 11 votes and only 4 "voted"s


chantelle,

i have edited my original post to

1) only vote if you are genuinely interested in participating, no matter what the outcome is. if you are not going to participate if a certain species doesnt get over the line, then please dont vote. (edit: if the winning species is totally unsuitable for your tank, im sure people wont feel bad towards you not going ahead)

i wanted to deter people just voting for the sake of it. if the species is unsuitable, it wouldnt be expected that you would have to put it in your tank.