It's a 24 jbj cube and with a homemade egg crate divider. Maybe 20 lbs live rock, 2 inches sand. Frogspawn and 4 mini green bubble tips with the breeding pair on the left. And 20 head Duncan, purple vase sponge, green sinularia, some mushrooms and a small frogspawn frag on the right with a donis lineage plat female and a juvenile onyx from sustainable aquatics. Soon they will pair, been together a month and starting to shake and interact.
A frag swap that "Booyahs Reef Clownfish" was at. I'm happy with them, I have another pair from him too and they are very nice as well. I would recommend him.
Looking good Stevers, I've been breading my clowns for about 6 months now. I have good clutches and bad clutches. I am interested in your number count. Out of all those numbers your counting I bet your only seeing about 20/30 hatch, am I right ?
I'm still perfecting my hatch technique. I try to count the eggs on hatch nice, pull the pot and wait a few hours. Then I'll put the pot back in with the parents and count the eggs that are left, Instead of counting the larvae. I didn't get a chance to count the eggs after the hatch this time. But I'm thinking around 60% hatched on the first night. I'm guessing I have around 60 fry. The parents ate the rest of the eggs the next day so I couldn't get a second round of hatching.
My first hatch I left the pot in the larvae tank for 2 nights. It annoyed the broodstock, but I did hatch around 80%. 20% succumbed to white fungus from poor aeration. That time I had around 80-100 larvae but had a hiccup and lost most of them.
Cool thanks, that would be useful for fish that don't stick their eggs to something. Clowns attach their eggs to their desired surface and tend until they hatch. This product is more targeted towards species that don't attach their eggs to a surface. Like cardinals or even jawfish, their eggs must be tumbled to keep from fouling.