Advice on feeding fry of Yellowtail damselfish?

[spookygwoman]

After a year, my yellowtail blue damselfish are producing an abundance of fry ongoing. I have a beautiful and very health reef established in my 34 gallon Red Sea Max tank. I would love to see if I can keep some of the fry from perishing. In addition to feeding the live rotifer, what if anything else do I need to know? Please help. Is there a book I should read? Links I should go to?

 

[FMarini]

you might want to get and read Matt Wittenrich's book "Breeders guide to marine aquarium fish", he has a whole section on damselfish.

One thing thou, you'll have to get the fry out of the display tank to have any possiblity of success.

In regards to first foods, Matt claims "S" strain rotifers, but many other reports NO success w/ rotifers. Gut content analysis in fry reveal dinoflagellates, copepod nauplii, diatoms, cilitates. Sounds to me that you'll have to learn to culture a whole bunch of microfoods (see sticky thread at top of forum) to be successful w/ this specis

frank

 

[GreshamH]

Dinos, interesting. Know what species?

 

[spookygwoman]

Thanks for your help, Frank. Much appreciated. I'll check out that book. If we have luck with any of the fry surviving, I'll post another note.

T