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I was thinking about this while out walking my dogs, i will have a think about it. Speaking of catching them i put the catcher tube in deep to the bottom of the tank and my thumb slipped off the end and the water shot out the top like a mortar going off! I'm just glad the larvae didn't fire out like a bullet!

6 new larvae have shown up in my breeder tank tonight! I wasn't expecting any yet so its a nice surprise.

I topped up all the tanks and fed them today, i also moved over 7 larvae from the breeder to the larvae tank and after cleaning up and putting lids/lights back i noticed another little larvae float out from some lava rock There is always at least one that gets away lol.... i will catch him tomorrow.

Here is a quick update video:

8 new larvae in the breeder tank tonight! I seem to have a new batch every week at the moment. I must record my params for preservation.

Thanks for sharing that vid bud, really enjoyed watching, so much so I sent my wife a link to it and got her to watch it too. She now gets why I set up an Opae tank.... lol

Good news on how well they're doing for you. Your parameters must be absolutely spot on.

odin wrote:6 new larvae have shown up in my breeder tank tonight! I wasn't expecting any yet so its a nice surprise.

Make that 16 Larvae now.

Somebody else must be releasing some larvae as there are 24 now lol.

That's great. I've been following your videos on Youtube.

Vorteil wrote:That's great. I've been following your videos on Youtube.

Thanks, id love to do more videos but my camera isn't great for video and I've never done any video editing before lol.

Today i moved over 22 larvae to the larvae tank, topped it off and fed it. I also measured my params:

Salinity: 1.012/1.013
PH: 8.0 +/- 0.2
Temp: 25/26 Deg C


After playing with the liquid test kit and feeding the tank i spotted the last 3 larvae that were hiding out of sight when i moved over the others LOL i will move them over too tomorrow, i don't like putting anything in the tank after i have been handling test kit chemicals. I also took a few photos of some of the berried females that i spotted at the front of the tank picking at the settled food on the substrate.