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Nope. The original was a dud. Egg counts have been rising this week. I managed to collect 81 last night. I'm having to bathe them in an antibiotic bath because the eggs were fouling really quickly. That seems to be helping.

Sixline wrasse embryo, 15 hours post-collection and somewhere between 15 and 18 hours post-spawn!!

Well, the examination tonight didn't go so well. It looks like the egg might have been unfertilized and now it seems like it's starting to disintegrate. Looks to me like it's also starting to get invaded by bacteria. I still need to download photos from the microscope, but it's not going to be...

Thanks, Tom! Moving on ahead, sixline egg at 17-18 hours.

Here are photos of a sixline wrasse egg, an hour or so old!!! At 4x under the scope, with backlighting: At 4x under the scope, with no backlighting: To give you a sense of scale, I took a photo of millimeter marks on a ruler at 4x: At 10x, with backlighting: At 10x, with no...

There's been other weirdness over there as well. I don't know if you've noticed, but old posts with no new replies have been randomly rising to the top of the lists. I assume that would happen when someone with editing powers alters text inside a thread?

Sorry to hear about your loss. You know, I've always heard that the big holding facilities always store the same species in the same species-specific tanks in very over-crowded conditions, and never really move any of the tanks around. I would think that would be the ideal breeding grounds for...

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And, in case anyone was wondering, here is the Fair Use clause of the United States copyright law: From here: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107 In summary, quote small sections of whatever you want to talk about and don't use it for commercial, non-scholarly purposes. Given...

Good deal. Be sure there are places the kids can go where the parents can't see them. I worry that the kids get stressed when they are being watched by big predators (their parents) all the time. I had an eggcrate rack set up as an algae filter with around an inch of water over it. The algae was...

The algae is good. It'll promote microfaunal growth that'll give the little ones supplemental food. That is, unless you have other fish in there that browse the algae. I don't see where you talked about tankmates. What else is in there?

I've also raised some to adulthood--in fact, a couple of my captive-breds have their first mouthful of eggs right now--so I can try to be of help if you have questions. Good luck!

Sure, Eric. Here's Matt's blog: http://microcosmaqx.typepad.com/matt_wittenrich/ Enjoy!