Breed Clownfish | Saltwater Fish

[alanna]

Sounds like your back in business. Congrats! My new fish are doing great. The kids love to pet Ella the eel. The dog face puffer keeps blowing in the sand looking for food which make the tank look alittle dirty. All are eating well. The other tank the blue electric crab did kill one of my new snails. I may move him somewhere just not sure to which tank, if I can catch him.
My female clown has been eating alot more maybe she is planning to lay again. It has been nice not catching fry every 2 weeks or so.

[miamiangler]

Thanks Alanna , as of monday night my pair of clowns have another clutch of eggs , I`m thinking of starting a fish farm Going on day 5 still have over 150+ fry . from now on it looks to get easy passing the 72 hour mark !, it`s been more work with feedings twice a day , tank cleaning and water changes , some thing I did not have to do with the last batchs with only 20 or less fry in the tank . It is cool seeing fry all over the two gal tank ! Cant wait till they will morph in the next week ! I have had a foam pad in my sump for two months now ,so it will work great when all 150+ baby clowns morth , then I wont have to worry about the nitries in the tank .I`ll try to get a pic of all the fry If I can get a dig camera .

[miamiangler]

Going on to day #8 , still have no losses , but tons of work with cleaning and water changes every day .feedings are early morning and evening . expecting the morph to happen in the next 4 days .

[davek0819]

fantastic.... good luck with the morph

[miamiangler]

Well all is doing well ,some of the fry have started to morph still have lots of fry with very few losses only 3 since the last report . today started with live baby brine shrimp and rotifers . Monday night had a new hatch ,but only 50 + not sure how mant since I do the co-culture thing and the tank is quite green ! It`s going to get very busy taking care of three tanks of fry and baby clowns along with my two reef tanks and 4 rotifer cultures

[miamiangler]

well down to 15 fry in the last batch , guess it`s not a lucky tank , thinking of getting a new one (5gal this time ) , this tank has never done well with hatches and fry ! in my other tank about 60% have morphed and have been feeding them on BBS.

[miamiangler]

well last batch none made it , must be the tank ,I will replace it with a different one ! Most of the fry have morphed , cool to see 150 + orange fish swimming around , going to try frozen rotifers today .

[miamiangler]

It`s been 19 day`s since batch #12 hatched . There are still a few that have not morphed into baby clownfish yet . I have had some losses of some fry that have not morphed . but all are eating well with live rotifer`s and BBS , with some feedings of frozen rotifer`s and BBS. Started a new culture with some of the rotifer`s of the oldest bucket I had , I fed the rest to the baby clowns , I will let this one sit for a while so the numbers increase.

[miamiangler]

Batch 13 was a bust . so I`m hoping that batch #14 will work as did #12 . I have eggs as of 5:00PM .All of the other babies are doing well .

[alanna]

Well my clowns had new eggs Sat the 26th od Dec. My mother, sister and some other family members got to watch. It was a small batch. On Mon. all the eggs were gone.
The female looks fat like she will have another batch again. Bad thing is I'm out of salt and not sure when I can make the trip to get some. Maybe Sat. unless the weather is bad.
I moved all my baby clowns into the same tank. Its so nice to only feed 3 tanks. I did set up a new tank for my son, I'm waiting to put the fish in till the tank is ready. I also have the other 10g ready to start if the female has another batch. All the baby clowns are fine.