Mandarin Spawn and Hatch,

[Dragonets Den]

Thought I would share these.

The parents dancing for me. Love it when they do it!





The eggs:







The prolarvae

[BernieNUFC]

Oh Man that is so cool, i am jealous, keep us up to date with your progress.

brilllo

[Dragonets Den]

I got the DPH wrong. That picture was taken hours after hatch - so not a full day, tonight will be 2dph, and they are still swimming. They have not yet changed, so food has not yet become an issue. I am expecting my pods from the States to arrive tomorrow, but need them established before I harvest, so dont think these lttle guys wil make it. I will obviously try, but I can even begine to tell you how small they are!

[BernieNUFC]

Could you have not got the pods in the Uk easier?

[Dragonets Den]

Could you have not got the pods in the Uk easier?

Nope.

I have eyes and I think a mouth, so with that in mind I have added iso and rotifers, my a.tonsa and Parvocalanus come tomorrow, but I dont think I will be using them on this batch as they have come from the states, and I would like to establish them first.

[Dragonets Den]

sorry that was a bit abrupt. No you cant get the pods required in the UK. Well you can in a around about fashion, you can order them from a UK supplier, but they then order them from the states.

[cl0wn]

wow, good luck with these. looking forward to updates!

[Dragonets Den]

Ok to give a quick update. I can get these beauties to 5 days. Thier starvation time is 4 days. I currently am on my 6th batch since moving them over to my breeding room, they are 2 days old today. My A.tonsa is not yet ready to harvest which is an issue, but I am hoping to have a look at one under the scope with a rotifer by it to give a scale of size.
I will post any new pictures.

[T-Bone Tyrone]

awesome,

[Dragonets Den]

Here is Batch 7 at 3days. I started feeding this morning. The black circle in the video is a jbl brine shrimp filer (just for size).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMoKSL4FEOg


A picture of how I drip the food into the bowl.