please help ! my clowns have eggs

[Elidim]

I need your help everyone . Yesterday I found a patch of orange eggs on a big rock just under my anemone. My pair clowns do not move from them for a second. Please somebody tell me what I have to do and can the little ones survive in my mixed reef 75 g. I will appreciate your help. Thank you.:cry:

 

[Palting]

You'll need to segregate the clowns and have them lay eggs in a protected environment, like a breeding tank. Otherwise, the fry/hatchlings will become food for almost anything in your tank. Like this batch :(. Sorry.

 

[Budman's Corals]

You'll need to segregate the clowns and have them lay eggs in a protected environment, like a breeding tank. Otherwise, the fry/hatchlings will become food for almost anything in your tank. Like this batch :(. Sorry.

I put a 2" pvc Elbow next to the rock where mine laid eggs,now they love laying them inside the tube,also the pvc is very easy to removed but i never do,So far this year Shes laid about 15 times or more.Good food for the corals or other small fish.

 

[Tab28]

As was said they will lay eggs like clock work. I lost count how often mine stayed guard over a clump of eggs. It seems the parental instinct is only during the egg stage once hatched the parents will dine on them like any other fish.


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[mainereefer]

the first couple batches of eggs will probably get eaten (this is normal) it makes the parents stronger. if you decide to try to raise them.... go and buy a copy of "clownfishes" by Joyce D Wilkerson. best investment you will make

get a 10g tank put a couple dividers in it, and get a couple air stones (one for each chamber to move water around) this is so you can have 2 cultures of rotifers going and the 3rd chamber is for the plankton to feed the rotifers
setup a 20g or bigger tank with air stone and sponge filter for the nursery tank when they get bugger you may need a 40g-50g tank to grow out the babies big enough to sell

either watch and catch the fry when they hatch or just before they hatch move whatever they are layed on to the nursery

 

[FlynnFish]

Out of my 9 breeding pairs of clowns, I've never seen them eat their own babies. If the eggs are orange they are still fresh, laid within the last 24 hours. Depending on tank temperature is how long until the eggs hatch. Higher tank temps the sooner they will hatch. 80°-83°f they hatch in 8 days. 76°-80°f is about 9-10 days. The eggs will turn colors add the mature. First orange, then they darken to a brown then around 24 hours before hatching they will be clear with the silvery eyes showing. You'll need a ten gallon tank with a heater and an air pump/airstone. That's for the babies. The babies need to put in a separate tank, they need a special food that can't get in your display tank. You'll also need a five gallon bucket to raise the food(rotifers) for the babies. You can have the airline that is running to you're fry tank split and also feed to the five gallon bucket. Rotifers need to be fed an algae paste. That algae paste is where all the nutrients are that your baby fish will need. The rotifers eat that algae then the fish eat the rotifers. The algae and the rotifers you can purchase through Reedmariculture.com. Another thing you will need is some algae for greenwater in the larval tank. It keeps the rotifers fed that are in larval tank so they don't die, and it also helps the babies see the rotifers to eat them. This is also available from reed mariculture. the eggs will hatch after the lights go out. Feed your fish really well first, so any of the other fish in your tank won't eat them so fast. Put a flash light at one end of the fish tank pointing down from the top. Turn off all pumps. The babies are attracted to light. When you see them scooting around under your light, siphon them to a bucket or directly to the ten gallon tank. Good luck! Visit mbisite.org for lots of help and info.

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[Elidim]

Thanks to all. I will see what I can do to keep those little ones alive. I have my display for around 2 years now but this is happened for the fist time. Again,thanks for the info.

 

[sassAwrasse]

You can also look up Chad Vossen larval trap. We use it in tanks where the eggs can't be removed. It attaches to an airstone. A LED light attracts the fry to the trap like a moth to a flame, then the bubbles gently suck the fry into the trap.

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