Raising clown fish

[thedasher]

This morning all the fry were off the bottom and were swimming around so I hope they're fine. Also do I keep the fry tank just a little lighter green than the rotifer bucket?

 

[swissgaurd]

if I see the larva clingin to the side of tank I ad more green

 

[thedasher]

if I see the larva clingin to the side of tank I ad more green

Thanks that's exactly what they were doing when I got home, added some green and now they're swimming normally

 

[thedasher]

Here's a video of the clown fry day 1. http://youtu.be/nd7phNHhfYs

 

[thedasher]

So there were some eggs that didn't hatch the first night and hatched last night so I collected about 20 more and now I have about 60-70 fry and it looks like I lost only about 5 fry. the rest of them look great and are swimming and eating normally but I have to go out of state for a couple days and I'm having my sister feed them so hopefully none die when I'm gone. Also when should I start feeding otohime A? Day 7?

 

[thedasher]

Clowns laid about 100-200 eggs yesterday, now I have to get another setup going to raise those fry.

 

[thedasher]

Still have about 50 fry and got another 5 gallon tank for the eggs that should hatch this saturday. CAN WAIT!!!!

 

[thedasher]

UPDATE: eggs hatched on Saturday and I collected about 70 fry. Most of the older fry have one stripe and the clowns laid another clutch of eggs yesterday (April 8th). Here's a picture of both fry and new clutch of eggs. taken with my phone.

 

[thedasher]

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[thedasher]

UPDATE: I mixed the second hatch (which is 13 days old) with the first hatch (24 days old) all in a 10 gallon to make room for the clown fish that just hatched yesterday, so now I have about 230 baby clowns. About 55 have their first and second stripe, around 70 are starting to get their first stripe and about 100 are brand new and none are dead so far. I have a couple question :
1. When do the black baby clowns start turning black
2. When can I add in the sponge filter and does it need to be in my running system to gain bacteria before going into the grow out tank?
Thanks

 

[Zack K]

Interested to see how this turned out. Any updates?

 

[Hydy]

once they hatch how much rotifers do you feed them?

 

[Hydy]

once the clowns hatch how many rotifers by volume do you feed them without polluting the water?

 

[Surfzone]

once the clowns hatch how many rotifers by volume do you feed them without polluting the water?

You want to have a density of 10 to 15 rots per ml. It's better to have not enough food and have to add more in a few hours than too much food that will pollute the tank.

 

[Hydy]

You want to have a density of 10 to 15 rots per ml. It's better to have not enough food and have to add more in a few hours than too much food that will pollute the tank.

how do I know the density...do I have to use a microscope?

 

[Surfzone]

To be honest I gusstamate since I've been doing this for a while. You can take a sample of 1 ml and count. To give you a rough estimate. The point I'm trying to get across is don't over feed. For a 10g larvae tank I usually put 2000 ml of rotifer water through a sive and feed what is collected. I usually have to add more rots later in the day.

 

[James Hopkins]

I usually filter 2 cups of rotifers and put it in 1 gallon of fresh salt water and tint it green. Then i siphen the bottom of the 10 gallon tank of dead babies and other junk. After that i slowly add the fresh saltwater/rotifer.