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This a a very clear transparent microscopic view of an “L”type rotifers. It moves by its tail and small cilia. It eats using its specially designed feeding apparatus. These microscopic creatures can replicate by may differen methods, from thousands of eggs or by dividing themselves. They also have an intelligence that responds to environmental stimuli. My hey will create more females or males to adapt for survival. They can exponentially reproduce despite harsh envoiroments. They’re a necessary food source for every bit of life for marine and freshwater environments. Rotifers thrive in all types of waters. The lower the salinity the faster reproduction increases.

This is one of the most entertaining fish to own and breed because they do this elaborate mating dance. This usually consists of the dominate male and the females in the tank, although another male may join in if enough females are present. This breed is known as a “promiscuous breeder”, meaning more than one female will mate and lay eggs in one males cave, but will also mate with another male, if present. This is why once you get them to spawn, do you have an abundant supply of eggs. The males are territorial but can be kept peacefully together. Please subscribe and hit me with a like to help me grow. Please feel free to leave any comments or questions below👇🏻.

This breed of fish is always laying eggs if given the right environment in which to thrive. Its easy for a beginner to raise a lot of fish with just a little practice. I started trying with peppermint shrimp after successfully raising copepods. It’s just building on what others already know. Social media makes this a lot easier because you can find authors and biologists even willing to help or just experienced Amatuers, but it’s always better to get the big picture with the homework. Otherwise you’ll buy or believe anything. Just like how CNN still manages to stay on the air😂. Disinformation is everywhere now days-Just the thought for the day🤔. Everyone stay safe and prepared. Learn these lost ways of animal husbandry. It’s something evryone should learn. Our oceans cover 3/4 of the land mass on earth they say. If we had problems there it would affect evrything. This is why it’s important to be ble to create an artificially copy and leave the originals alone. This is the trend in the hobby-preservation. We also do this with corals. I have a ton of coral picture I’ll post a slide show on one day. I’m trying to organize and migrate all my stuff to Rumble but would also like to edit them a bit to make them more educational. Time consuming! But I promise some really cool videos ahead so please like subscribe and view all my videos to help me grow my Rumble cannel.

Here’s another clip just to do a side by side comparison on the same breed, Meicanthus Grammistes or Striped Blennies aka Fang Blennies. They do have two long canine teeth that are retracted until it needs it for defense against another fish. I will be posting a microscopic view at some point to show how and when these develop, which is while their still in the egg sac.

Take a close look inside this male Bangaii Cardinals mouth for a very cool surprise. Imangine oacking 20 or more of those in your mouth for 3weeks with NO FOOD! This fish is one of the few in nature that do this. Theure “mouth-brooders” please leave any comments or questions below. Help me grow my Chanel by sharing and liking. Thank You.

This was a huge success and technically there really not too much too raising them. The eat live foods like baby brine shrimp however I perefer feeding them copepods. Apocyclopse are smaller but tigger pods can be used as well. You can gradually try other foods as often as possible. TDO is the perfect food for breeding anything as it comes in various sizes. These little guys spend their larval life inside their fathers mouth for around a three week period so there’s no delicate metamorphosis to fuss about. Its quite the site to see them pop out one by one. They’re exact replicas of thier parents. Incredible!

This plump rotifer is carrying two humongous egg sacs in tow as it tries to swim ways using tail for locomotion. Rotifers can also lay “cyst” type of eggs when the water conditions get too exteme. These will then hatch when conditions return within ideal parameters. This is similiar to dried brine shrimp eggs or those “sea monkeys” you had as a kid. These too are filter feeders and eat phytoplankton based feeds enriched with special nutrients needed for the fish or other larvae that ends up eating them. They’re like a living capsule and using in raising many marine fish previously near impossible ten to fifteen years ago. The simplicity of the keeping a really nice but smaller reef tank with fish is a lot easier than fresh water in my opinion. Once you have it set up automatically with speiclized computer controllers, it’s very easy. Technology has really made the hobby thrive. Breeding is the next step. Please like and subscribe so I can upstage my camera equipment. I’d like to film some close ups of live hatching with fiberoptic scopes.

A happy family of dwarf seahorses. These are somewhat difficult to keep only because it takes some effort, as they only eat live food like decapaualted newly hatched baby brine shrimp and copepods. They will reproduce quite rapidly if fed well. The male is the one that keeps the young in his abdominal pouch. Very interesting experience

This little guy is in a shot glass I. Order to get some good close ups. This little one is about 8 days post hatch. These are incredibly fun to raise. They have a very elaborate mayting process and have a very amusing charater. A very docile fish but dose habe two fangs with venom only for defense. It’s harmless to humans as their mout is too small.

Here’s a nice close-up of a two week old baby peppermint shrimp, also known as Zoeoa (baby’s shrimp). Shrimp are some of the hardest animals in the marine world to race to adulthood, although it is entirely possible with enough patience and knowledge. That comes with extensive research and networking with fellow Marine breeders, whether they be professional or amateur. Please leave any comments or questions and help me grow my channel by subscribing and give me me rumbles thank you so much and May God bless America🇺🇸

Here’s several baby Bangaii Cardinalfish. These little guys spend their early life from egg throughout their water bowl life inside the fathers mouth. Soon I will be posting more video showing this, so stay tuned subscribe, and ask any questions that you would like. I will find an answer if I don’t know one. If anyone was wondering what the plastic ties are for, this is an artificial long spine urchin. This is their natural defensive maneuver, and all Adult cardinal fish have their own long spine urchin they hang out around for this purpose.

This is a microscopic picture of “L” type rotifers and a species of copepod. These are being checked for their health and to estimate the density of their cultures. This batch of rotifers was contaminated by copepods, which isn’t a big deal if tits being fed to the predatory animals soon. Contaminated cultures have the liability of Craig dour to the food source demand. The dark ended areas within the rotifers indicate that theyve been eating well. Rotifers are o my a carrier for the nutrients in their gut and offer no real. Itritions by themselves alone. “You are what you eat”.

All larval shrimp are called “zoea”. Try that one at a cocktail party. It’s the ultimate Trivial Persit question (if that’s even still a game). I was NEVER successful raising them the two times I tried. One of these days I will succeed. To my knowledge, the very few people have succeeded have only been able to raise a handful. Knowledge is increasing substantially on a daily basis.

1 day post hatch. Striped Blennies are being investigated by scientists fr a. We non addictive treatment for pain! Articles will be posted for your perusal.

5 DPH. Larva in a standard 30mL shot glass.

Approx 7 days post hatch. Stripes just starting to appear. Majority of body still transparent, showing the actions of internal circulation and metabolic processes.

This hand-raised striped blenny is a huge accomplishment for the advancement of my hobby and the encouragement that u needed to try to breed other marine species.

Marine corals are one the most beautiful sight on the face of the earth and oceans of the world. Easy to keep in your own home now.

I thought this was an interesting video that demonstrates the rapid growth of larval Blennies. The largest one with the strikes and absence of transparency, is clearly evident about Galway through the video. The smaller one is indistinguishable from larger larva. Amazing the difference! Just thought I’d share an interesting observations as I have promised. Please share these with all your platforms. We need to bending attention to the peril our reefs and oceans are in.

A video documenting 1 day post hatch Striped Blennies. As you will see in other videos, they egsss are laid perfectly inside of as plastic “cane” or similiar structure. Mating rituals and care of the eggs will be addressed In videos to follow. You won’t want to miss that!

These fascinating and comical fish have the most uniques personalities from a fish that I’ve ever seen. They literally have me laughing due to their antics. Even their mating rituals are very elaborate and something evryone will see once I find and upload it it. Please suport my channel. My only goal is to educate marine life diversity from the aspect of One of Gods humble caretakers. I’m not an OFFICIAL marine biologist but an extreme amature marine breeder.

One of the projects I’ve recently tackled with great success was super interesting. This want the normal fish and shrimp which are commonly bred. Berghia nudibrachs are a rare sight, only because they eat only one thing: aptasia or aka “glass anemones”. These little guys are no bigger than an inch or so but are a mighty weapon against this coral destroying pest anemome. If u have an infestation of aipaysia, don’t waste money on bathing else. The use mmmmmmmm can be bred for a lucrative profit if it’s done the correct way. Their market orice various from 18-30$ EACH!! I was able to sell over 175 over the last few months and even traded for some nice corals.

Clownfish grown into their stripes. This one is about 14 day post-hatch. It’s almost through a stage called “metamorphosis”, kind of like when a caterpillar changes into a butterfly, except in this case there’s no cocooon. The specs that you see in the water is the live food that’s always kept with the baby fish as easy snacks. This is a baby Clarkii clownfish almost through metamorphosis.

Here’s how I make my food, phytoplankton, to feed my live food. This golden brown strain is know as Isochyrsis Galbana. Certain species of marine animals eat this, while others eat the dark green nannochloropsis or sometimes both.

There’s nothing more adorable than baby clownfish. These were placed in a small mason jar as their water and habitat was changed and cleaned. Anyone can raise Saltwater fish at home now with the right knowledge. You need to know the basics first. If anyone would like to know how to set up and breed clownfish, subsubscribe and start throwing me questions if there’s anything anyone wants to know about salt water and breeding many of the animals common to the hobby. Corals are fun but this is a blast. I’ve not seen it up close and experienced it myself until trying it the last six years. Give me some help boosting the channel so I can reach as many oeooole as possible. We are all responsible for learning and taking care of the creatures on this earth. We must preserve our oceans. Theyve been very abused. Im trying to share what I’ve been learned and experienced so that others can have that same awe and appreciation. Please help me spread my message as our reeds a d oceans our vital to the existence of the human race. Take personal responsibility, because our governments surely are not. Please subscribe and share to boost my exposure. There are much more videos and awe inspiring videos to come once edited. I welcome any tips on video editing as well as software. Thank you for your interest and please come back as I add content frequently as time permits.