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Breeder ID: CHRCYA-091093-CQUEST-001

Date received: 9/10/93

Identification: Chrysiptera cyanea (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

Geographic origin: Indo-pacific

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Taxonomy: (after I.C.Z.N.)

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata

Class Osteichthyes

Order Perciformes Superorder Teleostei

Family Pomacentridae

Genus Chrysiptera

Species cyanea (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

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Description: Blue body, darker stripe extending from tip of premaxilla through eye; secondary stripes above first may be present on male, although much fainter. Posterior caudal margin in male is orange, pigmentation lacking in females. Male typically larger. Up to 80 mm. 

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Duration male(yr): 2.0

Size male (mm): 51

Duration female (yr): 2.0

Size female (mm): 51

Physical differences: Male slightly larger, orange tail fin. Females tail fin lacks orange coloration.

Adult diet: Fresh seafood, five (5) times daily.

Pre-spawning activity: Male attracts female .

Time spawning began: pre-dawn

Area spawning occurred: eggs laid on tile.

Frequency of spawning: 4 days

Egg description: Demersal egg mass. ~ 51 mm x 76 mm

Approximate quantity: 2000 – 5000

Size: small

Egg changes / development: Eggs become darker as hatching approaches

Incubation period: 4 days

Time hatching occurred: dusk and after

Size of hatching larvae: small

Yolk sac present? No

Newly hatched appearance: Quite small. Long and more or less colorless.

Transfer / removal method: Tile whish eggs were laid on removed to rearing tank prior to hatching.

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Spawning tank size (liter): 75

Sides of tank covered? Yes, black

Lighting & photoperiod: Natural

Filtration: Diatomaceous earth filter, Ultraviolet, sand filter, skimmer

Additives and dosages: none, natural seawater collected 100 yards from beach (open system)

Water temperature (F): 70 -90

Specific gravity: 1.024

pH: 8.1

Nitrate: 0 – 0.2 ppm

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Fry development / changes: Attracted to light. Larvae have a distinctive black spot on tail and turn blue at metamorphosis (20 days under good conditions). Very delicate first 10 days.

First food offered: ciliates with greenwater. Feeding was continual.

Second food offered: rotifers with greenwater

Survival 1- 4 weeks(%): 1%

Development description: Very difficult to rear because of first food requirements. Have only been able to rear small numbers.

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Rearing tank size (liter): 1140

Sides of tank covered? Yes, black

Lighting & photoperiod: natural

Filtration: fluid bed and skimmer

Additives and dosages: none, water source as above

Water temperature (F):70-90 F

Specific gravity: 1.024

pH: 8.1

Nitrate: 0 – 0.2 ppm

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Comments: Fish spawned only when moved to sunlight..

Originally described as Glyphisodon cyaneus, by Quoy & Gaimard, in 1825, Voyage Uranie,
Zool: 392, Pl. 64 (fig. 3), from a specimen(s) collected at Timor. Valid as Chrysiptera cyanea
by Allen

Word origin: The genus Chrysiptera is from the Greek roots chrys, -o, =us, meaning gold; and pter, -o, =um, meaning a wing, a feather or a fin. The species is from the Greek word cyan, –e, -i, -i, meaning blue .Thus Gold fin and blue which aptly describes the fish.

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