My clownfish just spawned this evening. I got rid of the 2.5 gallon fry and switched back to a 5 gallon for easier water monitoring, egg transfer, etc.
My ammonia alert badge was always reading "alert" with the 2.5 even with numerous siphoning, and water changes. My thoughts are: too little water may be a bad thing. I lost my last two fry from batch seven yesterday.....
On a good note, I have two very healthy Clownfish (tank raised on frozen rotifers and live baby brine) from batch six doing just fine in my other 5 gallon tank. I have four separate live rotifer cultures I am going to prepare tomorrow for the fry from batch Eight that I figure will hatch the evening of 01/15/09.
I am glad I got that far with frozen Rotifers with batch Six for now, I can compare how well batch Eight does with live Rotifers. I am sure I will have a much higher and healthier success rate.
Michael
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. More water volume in the fry tank, and live rotifers is key. I think the 5 gallon tank will help your ammonia problem but I would still keep an eye on it. If water quality becomes an issue, I have seen some people use an extremely small sponge filter to help improve the quality. This issue is that you have to make it so you are not hurting or damaging the fry. I also put a couple pieces of cycled live rock in my fry tank. Lots of people say it is not the best thing to do because you could introduce bad bacteria to the fry tank. I feel like the added benificial bacteria helps to break down the harmful compounds such as ammonia and nitrite into (less harmful) nitrate. Best of luck. Thank you to eveyone contributing on this forum. I look forward to reading everyone one else's experciences with clownfish fry.