Amphiprion Percula Home Breeding

One unlucky guy got caught in coffee filter during feeding. One casualty from coffee filter. Not considering a sieve yet. They look bigger and have more fish like appearance. I've noticed tail curling, a little more aggression and slower swimming speed. I think they are in meta.

 
there was a massive explosion of rotifers in the hatch tank and I had to do a 20% water change this morning to remove some of them. Also, there were 4-5 small worms that looked like bristle worms in the hatch tank. One reason I didn't let the flowerpot overnight for hatching was I knew that there were all kinds of hitchhikers on it.
The recently hatched clowns are still going through meta gradually. Their gradual meta fits the description of Ocellaris clowns in Joyce Wilkerson's book Clownfishes.
Worms:
 
I was checking on the baby clowns and caught this guy on camera. He's pretty cute and funny. 10 days old.
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CoralsAddiction said:
I was checking on the baby clowns and caught this guy on camera. He's pretty cute and funny. 10 days old.
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:lmao: he's not doing anything. :hmm3:
 
Here's a vid of one of the clowns with a headband. He's the one being hosted by a suction cup; left side of the cup. The video isn't great quality and may require you to view it full size.
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About 80% of the recently hatched clowns are showing their first stripes but still no orange coloration. I did some research on A. Percula breeding and it seems that they can take up to a year or more to fully develop colors, which is kind of a bummer. Ocellaris clowns develop much faster. I'll post a video on Sunday when they turn 14 days old.
 
See, no death after 2nd night other than the one that got caught in the filter. Be careful or you ended up like me. Had 1000 fish and no way to get rid of them. No way other than ahve to really cull the bad ones and don't start with more than 200 or so.
 
OrionN said:
See, no death after 2nd night other than the one that got caught in the filter. Be careful or you ended up like me. Had 1000 fish and no way to get rid of them. No way other than ahve to really cull the bad ones and don't start with more than 200 or so.
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Ha, yes. Agree. I am looking forward to taking a little break from culturing rotifers soon.
:)
 
I've noticed that about 15 of them adopted algae on the bottom as a host. The problem that may occur is that they won't be able to get otohime. I wish I had used a 10 gallon tank filled half way than a 5.5 gallon tank filled all the way up.
 
Here is a video update of clowns, 14 days old. I've been trying to feed them TDO and haven't fed rotifers since yesterday afternoon. I wanted to stop feeding rotifers on day 10 but didn't have enough confidence in clowns surviving.
Group 1
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Group 2
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Came home after a night out; took down rotifer station #2; siphoned the hatch tank with a turkey baster; did some culling; did a 20% water change. Harvested 25% of rotifers from station #1 to feed the clowns;; cleaned the rotifer station. It's a lot of work for a Sunday night. But worth it.
 
I noticed a couple of days ago that some clowns have their middle stripes showing just a little bit. The middle bars are more apparent now.
 
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