radar_17
Active Member
I have a group of 9 blue-green Chromis that are 2-4 years old. Over the past 2-3 months they have been laying thousands of eggs on the glass once or twice a week. This past week the male was so protective he was pecking my hand and/or the magnetic scraper while trying to clean the glass. Anyways, I've never seen any indication that the eggs had hatched... until tonight (possibly). I looked in the fuge and in addition to the copepods and occasional baby brine-shrimp I saw something very different... and there were 10-15 of them. They look like newly hatched baby danios (I've raised a few hundred of them over the years), but unlike the danios they are floating/darting about in the top 2 inches of the water column (danios look like slivers of glass stuck to the glass or other substrates for the first day or so). The other difference is that they seem to have 3-4 bright "spots" along their narrow bodies. I definitely don't have the camera skills to capture these guys, but was hoping some one on here might have pics of newly hatched chromis to compare to... and if I'm real lucky, some advice on maybe getting a few to survive. Thanks!
