Eggs

[andywg]

New frog, new egg raft, it seems:

And some shots of the probable mother:

Random reef shots!

 

[invader]

Very nice frogs and eggs. I have a question, though: are they free floating or are they attached to the glass? It's hard to tell from the picture.

 

[Liam]

Beautiful shots, what are the chances of 'tadpole' fry? I love the first fish in the random reef shots.

 

[andywg]

Very nice frogs and eggs. I have a question, though: are they free floating or are they attached to the glass? It's hard to tell from the picture.

Free floating, but attached at one end to some rocks, though part has broken off now.

I may well feed the eggs to the main reef. Get some food from them.

Beautiful shots, what are the chances of 'tadpole' fry? I love the first fish in the random reef shots.

Almost no chance. Being a somewhat typical marine fish, the eggs hatch into planktonic larvae. I think it is about 8 days after the hatch that H. histrio fry develop. Due to the fact these are external fertilisers, and I don't even have two frogfish from the same genus I doubt any eggs are viable (none of my last batch from another frog were).

 

[cheesy feet]

Wow, very nice.Great pics

 

[paul_219]

Very nice pics. Congratulation on your new eggs.

 

[dthoffsett]

Awesome pics Andy How many froggies are you up to now?

 

[andywg]

Still only 3 frogfish now. I lost the other yellow A. maculatus when moving some fish around, despite them going from one tank to another which are all on the same cetralised filtration system.

 

[cheesy feet]

That sucks...

 

[andywg]

Indeed.

It seems that frogs don't take well to being moved at all. All of the ones I have lost have gone after being moved from one tank to another.

 

[severum boy]

I take it that the eggs wernt expercted then?
Is there anyway at all to raise the fry (if they were viable)? I guess you would need a rather large tank..........
Great photos though, I can see the froggies are well looked after!

 

[andywg]

It's not tank size, it's feeding them. They live in, and feed from, the oceanic plankton. It's just not easy to simulate those conditions in a closed system.

 

[severum boy]

It's not tank size, it's feeding them. They live in, and feed from, the oceanic plankton. It's just not easy to simulate those conditions in a closed system.

My point was that you would need a huge aquarium to support the plankton they feed on to get them to a size before they settle down. Is it actually possible to "keep" plankton?