WC Blue dot goby holding!

[Jess Puff]

I'm so excited and have to share the good news...my blue dot goby is holding!

[jtrotter77]

awesome. Keep us updated. I love gobies.

[jon carman]

Good Job!

[glenoweth]

Nice... Gratz ! Just wait until they are swimming around. Even at one month old mine are nutts. Lol the run all over the fry tank after each other.

[rickl]

Woot! Where are the pics?

-Rick (the armchair aquarist, who so wants gobies, but needs another tank first)

[Jess Puff]

I'm definitely going to need ya'lls help because they are in a tank with a bunch of calvus and I know I'll need to move them at some point. How long should I wait to move the mom and dad?

[glenoweth]

I pulled mom ,not dad. I put mom in one of the new fry holders that kens fish.com sells
Here is a link. www.kensfish.com/product3708.html
They are really cool the use the tanks water like a hob filter , I will add a pic from home later on once I am home..


If the mom's pits some eggs when u catch her just add the in the holding tank she should pick them back up. Also goby normally take turns holding the fry about half way during the holding process. I just have the mom hold a little longer then have her spit the fry once they can half way swim around with the egg sacks. This way I don't have to tumble them. I then get mom eattng again in another holding tank so she can get her strength back, then add her back to the tank... Just how I do it.

She had about 6-9 fry. The goby eggs are huge! Compared to most tangs... Lol they look like frontosa eggs.

[Jess Puff]

Hmm... could I just use one of the net breeders that hang on the inside of the tank?

[bnoel210]

You could but i dont know about gobies but i have seen other fish try sucking there fry through the net if you have it in the same tank as parents

[glenoweth]

Feb 16, 2012 17:26:19 GMT -6 Jess Puff said:

Hmm... could I just use one of the net breeders that hang on the inside of the tank?

sure i guess that would work to. i just never liked them lol because of the fry can get sucked through tthe net.... like posted above.

[plecoman]

Congrats Jess! Can't wait for pics of the fry!

[Jess Puff]

Well I'm pretty confused now...I saw her eat a couple small pieces of flake today so I thought maybe she swallowed the eggs. BUT...it still looks like she's holding so I'm really confused.

[plecoman]

I had a yellow lab that would eat when she was holding. Surprised me when she would spit a big group of fry.

[jtrotter77]

holding females will sometimes take a little food but from my understanding its actually for the fry in her mouth and this is usually when they are close to spitting them anyways.

[Jess Puff]

Yea I don't think she's close to spitting but maybe she's just really talented lol