Chalk Bass Breeding??

[9supratt4]

I have 2 Chalk bass that have been acting very strange. Chasing each other, locking jaws, etc. and now one of them is pretty fat. I know that they are simultaneous hermaphrodites, and I know they are pelagic spawners and release the eggs into the water column. Any chances of breeding these fish?? And are these the signs of egg laying??

 

[JRWOHLER]

Very cool, that is one of my long time favorite fish that I haven't gotten.
Put me on your CB customer list if you manage it.

 

[9supratt4]

Very cool, that is one of my long time favorite fish that I haven't gotten.
Put me on your CB customer list if you manage it.

I will do that!! But I still need to figure out if it's possible and what I need to do to be successful.

 

[JRWOHLER]

Breeding/Propagation
Egg scatterers that produce pelagic eggs, often in midwater mating rituals. Both eggs and larvae that drift with plankton in the water column and settle back onto a reef at about the time of metamorphosis. These are among the most challenging types of marine fishes to propagate in captivity.

http://www.aquapages.info/index233a.htm

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=219

Couple good threads on that last one.