mrfrogspawn
New Member
chances are you may just happen across a few of the babies when you least excpet it. once theyre on their own in a bigger system, they will hide among the rocks so you dont see them. they continue to do that until they reach about 1 1/2"-2 in length, then they begin to come out of hiding more and more often. i put 2 one month old babies in a 65 gallong system and it took about 3 months for them to start coming out into the open. theyve even survived from being eaten by 3 large wrasses.
easist way to guarantee the babies survive is the put the male in his own tank with several long spine sea urchins (or a fake one made of a clay ball with toothpicks sticking out of it). once the babies are spit out they will head straight for the urchins, or anything that resembles one. my last batch was a total of 40 babbies, and they were all swimming in between the toothpicks all the time. I managed with 32 survivors that were either passed to other reefers, or brought into the LFS to help their supply.
easist way to guarantee the babies survive is the put the male in his own tank with several long spine sea urchins (or a fake one made of a clay ball with toothpicks sticking out of it). once the babies are spit out they will head straight for the urchins, or anything that resembles one. my last batch was a total of 40 babbies, and they were all swimming in between the toothpicks all the time. I managed with 32 survivors that were either passed to other reefers, or brought into the LFS to help their supply.
