Skunk Cleaner

[Brandon5555]

Slight dilemma. My skunk cleaner has appeared to have mated with my peppermint shrimp. I would like to make a viable attempt at raising the young so I'm going to do a little experiment. SO I need a little bit of feed back. What kind of food would you guys recommend feeding and at which stages? Im thinking phyto for the first couple days.

[daniella3d]

did you manage to get them out of the tank? they are extremely fragile and even picking them up with a net will break their spine...if any go through violent flow their spine will break. they will gather at the water surface and near a light so best way to remove them is to cut off the pumps and have no more flow as soon as they are released and then put a point light at the surface and they will gather there and then remove them with a container rather than a net.

for the feeding, they eat freshly hatched baby brine shrimp enriched with selcon and live rotifers. This is a major challenge you are attempting because any pump will break and kill them, so how are you planning to create a current and oxygenate the wate? Best way would be to have a hatchery inside the aquarium so that the fish cannot get to them and they will be stuck inside but the water quality will be the same as the aquarium.

good luck :) mine did not last an hour before they got either eaten by coral or killed by the pumps. They release them at night.

This thread might help you to see a proper container for them:

http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f6/raising-cleaner-shrimp-larvae-journal-165108.html



Slight dilemma. My skunk cleaner has appeared to have mated with my peppermint shrimp. I would like to make a viable attempt at raising the young so I'm going to do a little experiment. SO I need a little bit of feed back. What kind of food would you guys recommend feeding and at which stages? Im thinking phyto for the first couple days.

[Lampshade]

Sounds like good advice, but for the important part... what would you call the babies? Peppermint-Skunks? Minty Cleans? Would they eat aiptasia and clean ich? you could have created a super shrimp!

[daniella3d]

pepperskunk shrimp :)

I seriously doubt that they will reach maturity though..it's really hard to rear the tiny larvaes.

They are so fragile and easily killed that I find it a sheer miracle that they survive in the open ocean!

Sounds like good advice, but for the important part... what would you call the babies? Peppermint-Skunks? Minty Cleans? Would they eat aiptasia and clean ich? you could have created a super shrimp!

[daniella3d]

check this link out:

http://breedersregistry.org/Reprints/SeaScope/v11_sumr/shrimp.htm

[jorjef]

Save yourself the expense, hassle, stress, and frustration and call them free fish food.

[daniella3d]

well, if someone is willing to try it and have the spare time? why not? :)

When I learned how hard it was I did not want to get into hatching brine etc...because I was working but have I had the time I would have tried it. One must be ready when they hatch though and I was not ready and I did not have any container ready for them and no food.

Save yourself the expense, hassle, stress, and frustration and call them free fish food.

[jorjef]

I suppose, but if my kids wanted to know how to parachute off the roof of the house I guess I could advise them how to, But I would just rather advise them not to ....Sometimes you just need to steer people away from ideas that in the end will likely only frustrate them.



well, if someone is willing to try it and have the spare time? why not? :)

When I learned how hard it was I did not want to get into hatching brine etc...because I was working but have I had the time I would have tried it. One must be ready when they hatch though and I was not ready and I did not have any container ready for them and no food.

[reefwars]

Save yourself the expense, hassle, stress, and frustration


someone once said this for all marine life in a glass box;)

[jorjef]

Good point..lol


someone once said this for all marine life in a glass box;)

[daniella3d]

YOu are comparing something that is time consuming but relatively safe to do, with something that is just plain dangerous to do.

Common sense would dictate to forget the parachute, but heck..he's not going to die from trying to raise a few shrimps. It might even be a fascinating experience. I wish I could have done it no matter the outcome.

One could consider this a challenge. People pay tons of money to get nearly killed and suffer a great deal just to reach the Everet summit :)


I suppose, but if my kids wanted to know how to parachute off the roof of the house I guess I could advise them how to, But I would just rather advise them not to ....Sometimes you just need to steer people away from ideas that in the end will likely only frustrate them.

[jorjef]

Wow, once again you are absolutely 100% correct.... Excuse me while I go amputate my fingers...as to not respond to any further. Any advise on howto culture my fingers into a full body? I would hate to not give it a try...:biggrin:

[daniella3d]

Go ahead and please post your results :)

Wow, once again you are absolutely 100% Any advise on howto culture my fingers into a full body? I would hate to not give it a try...:biggrin:

[reefgirl189]

Go ahead and please post your results :)

It would have to work for him to be order to post them. Unless he learned to be dextrous with his toes. In this case post the video. :biggrin:

[reefwars]

video would be better, who knows maybe we will all learn something today ;pppppppp

[fishytime]

peppermint shrimp are commensal (perform cleaning duties).....no need for skunk genes:wink:..... very difficult to rear the little-uns in a tank with fish in it.....Red Coral has had several broods reach a size that they can be easily recognizable as shrimp with absolutely no effort at all or special tank (tank never had fish in it)