Tiger Goby (Tigrigobius macrodon) fry.

[LaudableH]

Good afternoon all. I am relatively new, so I hope I am posting this in the right place. I've tried scouring the internet for any info of raising fry for this particular Goby, but come up with very little.

I have a 17 G cubical salt tank with Tiger Gobies, Sexy Shrimp, Pom Pom crabs, flower anemones and corals, and other invertebrates. Most of these critters have been in the tanks, especially the gobies, for a few months now.

Two days ago, I had little fry swimming around the tank, mainly up to the surface of the water, I've counted at least 8 on the first day, and 12 on the second day or so. I moved the fry into a breeders net clamped on the wall of the tank with a bottle cap, given how small they were, and fed them Roti feast twice a day from what I was recommended by my Aquarium store. I also turn off one of the power heads, and half closed another power head to have the water moving somewhat, it's grates are also guarded with mesh to prevent any of the fish going into the impellers by accident.

Unfortunately, I don't believe many, if any at all, survived in the breeders net from what I can visually see. I currently have one left swimming about that I can count, though I do not know if there are any more eggs within the live rock the father goby is guarding.

Has anyone had any experience raising fry of Tigrigobius macrodon? If so, what did you all try? Did you move them into a separate tank or did you leave them be. How often did you feed them. Any particular tips a newbie like me can learn?

(Sorry for the wall of text btw. I also posted this in the general thread, so I hope this doesn't come off as spam.)

 

[stE26wy14]

bumping for u! sounds interesting

 

[LaudableH]

Just a quick update bump, the original fry I posted about died off. I figured I just let this thread die off, until this morning where I found one fry popped up out of no where. Soon another popped up, then a few more, until around 2:00 PM or so, I counted over 30 I believe. I suppose there were more eggs.

This may be overkill, and hopefully doesn't harm my water quality too much, but I feed up to three times with up to 10 drops of live Rotifier feed three times today. I am sure the corals and other inhabitants will finish off anything else I guess.

Doing the same thing before with the original post, except I am leaving the breeders net out and see what happens. Could have been stress that killed the fry, but I have no idea, so we'll see what happens.

Take everything I do with a grain of salt, I am a newbie when it comes too this stuff.