My first attempt raising clownfish

[ReeferMadness09]

So its been about 2 weeks since starting to feed chroma boost. The picture isnt the best and the tank lighting is poor but it seems to have helped color my clowns up a bit.

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[SeahorseKeeper]

They look great! :)

 

[ReeferMadness09]

Thanks, they definately get better with age too

 

[racin2438]

How long before eggs hatch. Just notice our pair laid eggs on looking at the eggs they kinda look wiggley

 

[ReeferMadness09]

Usually it takes about a week from the time the eggs are laid to the time they hatch. Each day the egg color will change. The first day they will be bright orange if they are ocellaris. After that they will darken more each passing day till about day 7. Around then you should notice the silver eyes within the eggs and the eggs color will be a pale gray. At this point you can expect them to hatch that night or the following. If youre not sure and want to collect them all you can do is stay up about an hour after tank lights are out checking every 10 minutes or so. If they dont hatch, repeat the next night.

 

[ReeferMadness09]

So last night i had a hatch and had to transfer the previous clutch to make room for the new guys. I was able to count them during the transfer and had 76. At this point they usually dont have any problems. Thats about my highest success rate so far. Even after about 15 collections im still trying to perfect things but its getting better.

 

[ReeferMadness09]

Pic of the above mentioned 2 week old clowns in a 5g

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[fishroomlady]

soooo cool! you're getting really good at this :)

 

[ReeferMadness09]

Thanks, my goal is to break 100. If i can get to that point ill feel like ive got it down to a science. One of the things holding me back lately is that my lifes schedule and the fish eggs schedule have been off. Ive been away or have to go through some sleep deprivation to be able to collect. Can be hard sometimes..

 

[Quinn123]

That is just so awesommme!!!!

 

[ReeferMadness09]

Well im not sure what happened to my current hatch but i had a major die off the first 24 hrs. Looks like i have about 7 that survived. I really dont know what went wrong this time but i think it might have something to do with the amount of time the fry stay in my fry catcher before i pull them. Ill avoid that for the next hatch and see what happens.

 

[ReeferMadness09]

So i had another hatch last weekend. I tried what i had mentioned previously and did not let the fry hang out too long in my catcher. I missed about half of the eggs because they hatched over the course of 3 days . Of the ones i did manage to collect I'd say half died in the first 24 hrs. I currently have roughly 20-30 that made it. I havent figured it out yet but I must be doing something that is contributing to my high losses. I'd really like to get consistant high numbers. The next thing I'll investigate is food. I'll try to step up the kind of food i feed and see how that effects things

 

[ReeferMadness09]

And since its been a little while and everybody loves pics right:thumb:...
A picture of a pair from my very first hatch. I wanted to keep an original pair from this adventure, so these guys have their own little tank. Maybe not quite 1 1/2 inches.

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[luxauterna]

so cool . My wife and I hope our clowns breed as well.

 

[ReeferMadness09]

I'm actually a little concerned my clowns will stop laying when i get my tank upgrade under way and have to move them. Guess I'll just hope for the best.

 

[Sully]

May stop for awhile but if you were able to get the water parameters to their liking once before to lay, no reason to think that you won't do it again.

I'm actually a little concerned my clowns will stop laying when i get my tank upgrade under way and have to move them. Guess I'll just hope for the best.

 

[Tmobo]

Very nice. I love this thread.

 

[ReeferMadness09]

Looks like something has changed in my tank. My clowns haven't laid in about 4 weeks. Guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. Still have about 40 babies im raising that haven't gotten added to my grow out tank yet but heres another video i just took of whats actually in my growout tank. I'll post with any further updates.
[video=youtube_share;JUMStZoo9uo]http://youtu.be/JUMStZoo9uo[/video]

 

[stevers]

Interesting, both my pair and my friends pair stopped laying as well (around 2 months ago). Perhaps a seasonal response?

 

[emilpett]

good looking clowns!I really like the black fins (Y)