Random pics of my little success
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Sorry Sean, but I don´t allow other people in my hatchery. Broodstock, larval rearing and grow out is all placed in one room right now.
At a later stage, I will have different rooms and anybody who is interested can have a look. But I will not show my larval rearing room. I am doing things in there, which is world wide uinque. I did not find any record on the internet about the larval rearing technique I invented. This technigue is so simple, but very efficient. I reckon, that I will be able to raise many other species in quantity, where other people still struggle.
So this technique is worth a lot of money. If this technique fails, I don´t have a problem to show it. But until I got the results, I will keep it as my personal secret.
I hope you guys will understand this. I don´t want to see other breeder having success with my technique before me.
Hey, I also can´t wait to start, but first I need a good cashflow to build the bigger hatchery, to buy broodstock, to employ staff, etc.
There are many other clown fish species on my list as well as damsels, shrimps and your favourite Flame angel (which is besides mandarins also my favourite fish).
Now you can imagine, I have not really started yet. Still have to do plumbing for a living.
the best Flame angels are true Hawaiian Flame angels and are rare
In that case Yuri, I force you to post a picture of the Hawaiian flame, as I got no idea what it looks like. Or you talk latin to me, then I will understand what fish you are talking about.
thy are much more red than a regular one and are more than 4 times the priceIn that case Yuri, I force you to post a picture of the Hawaiian flame, as I got no idea what it looks like. Or you talk latin to me, then I will understand what fish you are talking about.
thy are much more red than a regular one and are more than 4 times the price
Ahh, no it would be intersting if it is only because of their diet or genetic.
Thanks for the tip. If I will succedd with angels, I will get the hawaiin as broodstock.
But breeding angels is a tough business and I don´t want to put my target too high right now. Step by step.
the best angels to breed in sa is Apolemichthys kingi you will make money
if you get a good diver that can dive below 70meters i will be able to help get you Centropyge debelius
and if you can get a Apolemichthys guezei then you are good thy are from the Reunion island (this is the rarest angel in the world )
No problem man! I totally understand where you are coming from! I would do exactly the same thing... It's just really impressive that you are doing this, and I am just purely curious. I have faith that your technique will definitely be a success based on some of your pics, so I guess your setup will remain a mystery!
Yuri, I actually think, breeding angels is not a problem on a long term.
If I had a year of time, doing nothing else than research and development, I am confident to breed them. A year is a very long time, so there must be enough money in the account for daily expenses. At the end of day, after success, the question will be, is it financially interesting to breed angels. Buying, maintaning, keeping broodstock is much more expensive than for clowns. Having huge numbers of flames will drop the price on the market, as there is not a huge demand for such an expensive fish.
First target of each hatchery is the profit, not the success. Without profit, no money to spend for a long time of R+D.
Breeding chromis as an example will be not worth the effort. Breeding yellow tail damsels, either.
Maybe breeding the rarest angel after developing the right technique, might be commercially interesting. People who never could afford such rare fish will be able to afford it.
But in case I will succeed, I will ask you about what to breed and where to get.
Thanks for your input, Yuri.
No problem man! I totally understand where you are coming from! I would do exactly the same thing... It's just really impressive that you are doing this, and I am just purely curious. I have faith that your technique will definitely be a success based on some of your pics, so I guess your setup will remain a mystery!
Thanks, but my set up is not that impressive. Just a bunch of tanks, stands and fish.
Maybe I should post some pics of my set up. Let´s see what I´ve got on my computer.
Hmm, to get an idea what it looks like.
You might find it interesting, that I cladded the walls and door with 30mm styrofoam and the ceiling with 50mm.
The broodstock/larvae system is running with a 300 W heater (which is not on very often) with 27,5 degrees in winter and the grow out
with 26,5 degrees (without any heater). Right now I am running 2.000 litre, but next week the 375 litre tank will be full as well.
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Just let me know when
Thanks Sean, the filters and sumps are from Plastics for Africa. Cheap is good enough as long as it works. My skimmer works ood but with the bioload of 1000 juveniles it´s a bit undersized. I think I am going to build a big one, air stone driven.
Thanks Shawn, not yet, but I am waiting on prices and availabilty for many rare clowns. I am going to order them in any case. In May, there should be CB black and whites coming, picassos and dottybacks.
As soon as I got the new broodstock, I will post a list of species I am going to breed.
Singularity
Hmmm amper!
Nice setup you have there Marcel
Jacques, nothing impressive so far.
But watch this space in the breeding forum.
I'm confident to raise damsels in quantity soon.