Yellow watchman gobies had babies!(high powered microscope pictures)

[cbrennan4]

I woke up last night around 12:30 AM and decided to check on the tank. Once I turned the lights on, I immediately noticed my male Yellow Watchman Goby shaking around a what looked like a large silver egg sack . It burst open and all the babies started to swim out and fill the tank. It was so cool! I did some quick research online to see what it would take to raise them and it was apparent that finding the starter food(day old clam or oyster larvae) would be really hard and expensive to obtain,

I'm a Larval Fish Taxonomist so I had to bring some of the fry to work to get some pictures

My clownfish have a clutch that should hatch any day now and hopefully I can get some pics of their fry as well.

 

[Rob.D]

Now that's totally awesome!!!!

 

[760mason]

Very cool. Were you able to find anything for them to eat. looking forward to the clownfish pics.

 

[joshbbert]

Wow that amazing!

 

[cbrennan4]

I was able to grab a few of the clownfish eggs right before they hatched. Here's three of them with a watchman goby at the bottom for reference.

 

[braaap]

I was able to grab a few of the clownfish eggs right before they hatched. Here's three of them with a watchman goby at the bottom for reference.

Any update on this? I've never heard of people getting the YWG to reproduce in their tanks.

 

[reefwiser]

They are small will take some fresh plankton to get them thru the larval stage.

 

[steve&mari]

That's so awesome really cool pics under the microscope.