Yellow watchman pair question

[Kapachuka3]

Has anybody ever had ywg pair have babies, I have two of them and i havent seen 1 for a while and when i do its with the other one kinda hiding underneath the same rock as the other, seem normal?

 

[Wolf89]

Has anybody ever had ywg pair have babies, I have two of them and i havent seen 1 for a while and when i do its with the other one kinda hiding underneath the same rock as the other, seem normal?

Most likely has eggs. Without intervention, you will never see a baby

 

[ThePurple12]

Once I lifted up the rock that my watchman gobies lived under, and sure enough there was a clump of eggs. I sometimes only see one of them as well. Like Wolf said, you won't see any babies.

 

[Kapachuka3]

Once I lifted up the rock that my watchman gobies lived under, and sure enough there was a clump of eggs. I sometimes only see one of them as well. Like Wolf said, you won't see any babies.

Why won’t I see babies, will they die and if so how can I make them survive

 

[ThePurple12]

Why won’t I see babies, will they die and if so how can I make them survive

For one thing they’re extremely small, guessing a few mm. They hatch at night. everything in your tank will eat them, and the filtration and powerheads will kill them.They need to eat tiny rotifers to survive, and need to be raised in a separate tank.

That’s why

 

[hds4216]

Here's an article on breeding YWG: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-12/ft/index.php

Spoiler: getting them to pair is the easy part.

 

[Kapachuka3]

For one thing they’re extremely small, guessing a few mm. They hatch at night. everything in your tank will eat them, and the filtration and powerheads will kill them.They need to eat tiny rotifers to survive, and need to be raised in a separate tank.

That’s why

Dang that’s really sad

 

[Wolf89]

Dang that’s really sad

Free food

 

[Kapachuka3]

Free food

Yeah but still kinda messed up

 

[hds4216]

Yeah but still kinda messed up

Something like 99% of fry in the ocean don't survive to adulthood. It's actually pretty natural.

 

[Zionas]

OP how did you pair them?

 

[Kapachuka3]

OP how did you pair them?

just got two in the tank

 

[Zionas]

Got it. I’ll look for 2 small ones.