Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Photo of day 6 A. arcuatus larva

Here's the best I could do for now in terms of a photo.
I can now say that I'm 100% sure that these are the Bandit Angelfish,  A. arcuatus.
Sooooooooo happy to be working with them again!



5 comments:

  1. Are these being raised on cultured copepods, or are you feeding collected/wild copepods?

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    1. Hi Chad,

      I'm using mostly cultured plankton and supplementing with wild plankton when it's available. My strategy when working with larvae is to include wild plankton until I have success so that I can see how the larval development should be through the different phases/ages of the larval period. Then I switch to only cultured plankton for subsequent larval runs with that fish species.

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    2. That's fantastic. I'm in MN, so wild copepods are not useful. Hearing success with cultured copepods is inspiring. I'll be at the MBI workshop this weekend, and angelfish culture will be a hot topic I'm sure.

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    1. Thanks Ed,

      Still a couple months to go with these babies so keep your fingers crossed. :)

      Karen

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