180 or so clowns in my grow out tank.
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Fretfreak13
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OMG AWWW!!!!! Great job!
ernieq
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Video of them eating.
http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums...action=view¤t=Mvi0410-1_zpsd8fd24c3.mp4
http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums...action=view¤t=Mvi0410-1_zpsd8fd24c3.mp4
seamonkey84
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Nice! I can't wait till one if my pairs start spawning, prob a year or two from now lol. So what do you feed/enhance your Rotifers with?
ernieq
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I use RGComplete from reed aquaculture. It's easy and I don't have to have 2 liter bottles of coke brewing 24 hours a day with phyto. I only feed rotifiers for the first 9 days or so and supplement with baby brine until they are big enough to eat OTO B1. The guys in growout are on OTO B2 now.
I love baby clowns!! Congratulations on your success!
aandfsoccr04
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yeah that's no easy feat. Congrats
xfactor1315
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One day I hope to breed successfully like this, great job.
ernieq
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I have some of the freeze dried cyclop-eeze that I'm feeding to the my 24 day olds. Their orange is a lot brighter at this point. I'm going to get some TDO as it is easier to feed to the bigger guys. Here they are for comparison.
The flash kind of washed out the colors of the older ones a bit, they are a bit brighter orange in real life. Here's one that is closer to their color.
The flash kind of washed out the colors of the older ones a bit, they are a bit brighter orange in real life. Here's one that is closer to their color.
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phender
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Those look nice. I just commented because when I was selling my TR ocellaris in the early 90's, the main selling point for my clowns was that other tank raised clowns were very pale. You couldn't tell mine from WC because I was feeding an experimental food called Vibra-gro. At that time, it was the only food that contained astaxanthin and it made a huge difference in my ability to sell the babies to LFSs.
These days there is a lot more competition out there, so your babies will either have to be top of the line or under priced (or both) to get an LFS to buy from you. Those last pics you posted look like they should sell nicely.
These days there is a lot more competition out there, so your babies will either have to be top of the line or under priced (or both) to get an LFS to buy from you. Those last pics you posted look like they should sell nicely.
ernieq
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For the most part, very little aggression, I have not found any signs of damage on their fins. They used to fight more when they were a month old than they do now. I think there's just so many of them there's no point to it. I feed them about 5 times a day about 2 capfuls of the TDO (C1) pouch. It is all eaten within a minute. I also feed them some frozen cyclops eeze every two days or so and baby brine shrimp once a week as a treat. Within the last couple of weeks there's a pecking order that is observed, where the bigger ones have taken hold of the the PVC elbows. The interesting thing is that they will tolerate certain clowns with them, but not others almost as if they had their "groupie." So most of them now hang out in the middle of the water column, whereas they all used to hang out pretty much in the lower part before. At lights out, all bets are off, and there are as many clowns as will fit inside each PVC elbow. The ones that don't fit, just clump up together in a ball.
Here's a photo just after lights out.
And here they are sleeping, this one was about 20 days ago.
Here's a photo just after lights out.
And here they are sleeping, this one was about 20 days ago.
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aandfsoccr04
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what are you going to do with them all?
