Yellow Tang passing an egg sack

[Daniel]

I think one of my Yellow Tanks is passing an egg sack. Is it possible? If so I think that is cool. I wonder how many eggs it might pass and will they live?

 

[scrmbld33]

do you have a pic? i dont believe theve been bred in captivity before. hope your the first

 

[Daniel]

Here are some photos

 

[Phyl]

How many do you have?

 

[Daniel]

I have five Yellow Tangs

 

[IrradiatedReef]

Very cool!

 

[shinningballs]

gudluck

 

[Daniel]

I think i will need it.

 

[Baxreefs]

Sure looks like a batch of eggs!

Very cool!

How big is your tank?

 

[Daniel]

My tank is 180 gallons.
I wonder how long it takes fro them to batch and when they do how big will they be?

 

[IrradiatedReef]

I couldn't find anything on the internet about it. Might want to think about how the babies eat. I would probably begin with the steps on breeding clowns. Figure out how to hatch rotifers, etc.

 

[sinkingbeach]

I found a little info, don't be disappointed but there's little chance of survival.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/yellow.php

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/information/breedmarine.php#Tangs

 

[reefsandrotts]

I would try contacting ORA with pics. I'm sure they could give you info. since they used to raise hippo tangs from wild eggs.
Worth a shot.

 

[tbaquatics]

I think one of my Yellow Tanks is passing an egg sack. Is it possible? If so I think that is cool. I wonder how many eggs it might pass and will they live?

Check out www.marinebreeder.org, lots of breeding experts over there...though haven't seen any talk about tangs, always thought they were near impossible to get to breed except in large public aquariums.

 

[Daniel]

Thank you all for the info. I never thought it would be so hard to get info about this.
Daniel

 

[blange3]

I think one of my Yellow Tanks is passing an egg sack. Is it possible? If so I think that is cool. I wonder how many eggs it might pass and will they live?

Check out www.marinebreeder.org, lots of breeding experts over there...though haven't seen any talk about tangs, always thought they were near impossible to get to breed except in large public aquariums.

Looks like a great site thanks for the link.

Here's a thread i found Daniel, looks like you could make history!

Yellow tang larvae have been raised?

 

[maroon]

so what happen'd with the sacks? any luck raising them?

 

[Daniel]

So fare nothing has happen

 

[saltwater4life]

Dang thats cool! So it still looks the same? Hmm wonder how long it will carry the eggs... hopefully you'll be in the Guinness book of world records

best of luck!!!

 

[Daniel]

Thanks. Nothing has happen yet.