[reef bound]

We had our first batch in April this year, not really intending to ever have anything of the sort, but ....stuff happens in the reefing world.

1) How many frys did you start out with?
*only found four - 1 in the sump and three in the display tank from my original batch.
2) How many survived to adults?
*we still have 2 of the original 4 and now also have found 4 more at various ages. We've recently found 1 in each of our overflows that look the same age if not older than our April batch, and two more in the refugium from 2 different batches.
3) If none, how long did the oldest one live for or how big did it grow?
*so far so good
4) did you attempt to raise them?
*Yes. We have 6 babies all together, oldest being 6 months old, youngest is about 1 month. Currently largest is about 1 1/2".
5) What did you feed the new born frys?
*BBS for the ones we rescued from the first batch, but the ones in the overflows and the 2 in the fuge have been fending for themselves and doing fine by the looks of it.
6) Did you do anything special to the foods? (ie Selcon)
*selcon and a little garlic
7) As they got older, what and when did you try frozen/pellet foods?
*after about 2 months I started blending mysis and omega brine shrimp and mixed a bit in with the BBS. Also started giving cyclopeze just by itself and it seemed to work, too.
8) If successful, how did you wean them off live foods?
*I'd say it took about a week until they were only eating the frozen food and cyclopeze and I cut back feeding them to 3 times/day, then down to 2 times/day---currently at 2 times/day.
9) How did you feed them? (manual turkey baster or automatic setup)
*just used a spoon to settle it on top, they were pretty fast.
10) Where did you raise your fry? (ie sump/separate container/main display)
*5g tank with sponge filter for first ones, but out of the last 4, 2 had been living in the overflows un-noticed until last month and seemed to be fine, the other 2 are in the fuge and will stay there for the time being,as I took down the 5g. (I've since put the original 2 babies and one from one of the overflows into my Red Sea Max and all are doing well. They are in there with a blue spot pufferfish and a lawnmower blenny.)
11) What temp was the water?
*78-79 degrees
12) How much swimming space did they have? (LxWxH)
*Not sure of dimensions, but typical 5g then moved them to a typical 10g after about 3 months old
13) How much flow in the swimming space? (none, low, moderate, high)
*no flow, just the bubbles from the filter, then in the 10g at 3 months old I had an aquaclear filter and the bubble filter and that gave a little more flow
14) What was in the swimming space? (live rock, algae, fake plants)
*a couple pieces of PVC in the tank, but the ones in the fuge right now have all sorts of rocks, algae, plants, and a couple of urchins
15) What was your lighting schedule?
*low light for about 10 hours/day

All in all, it's been very neat. I will say it was alot of work to be diligent with feeding the babies 4 times a day, but if a person was set up properly for breeding - which we aren't and can't- it would be better. We're actually trying to catch our 2 breeders to pass along to someone who is set up for it, to bring more baby bangaiis into the world. (They're proving to be very hard to catch.)