My first attempt raising clownfish

ReeferMadness09 · Oct 9, 2014

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 · Oct 9, 2014

They look great!

ReeferMadness09 · Oct 10, 2014

Thanks, they definately get better with age too

racin2438 · Oct 14, 2014

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

ReeferMadness09 · Oct 14, 2014

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 · Oct 20, 2014

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 · Oct 20, 2014

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

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fishroomlady · Oct 20, 2014

soooo cool! you're getting really good at this

ReeferMadness09 · Oct 21, 2014

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 · Oct 21, 2014

That is just so awesommme!!!!

ReeferMadness09 · Oct 29, 2014

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 · Nov 15, 2014

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 · Nov 16, 2014

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 · Nov 16, 2014

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

ReeferMadness09 · Nov 16, 2014

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 · Nov 16, 2014

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.

ReeferMadness09 said:
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 · Nov 16, 2014

Very nice. I love this thread.

ReeferMadness09 · Dec 6, 2014

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.
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