I'm not too sure if I'm going to continue this long term.... this was literally my first hatch. To start with of the 100 or so eggs I only got 21 out of the hatch, you'll notice a big fat Duncan coral right above the eggs, kinda a dumb place to lay eggs. From that original 21 I've got 11 left as of right now, most disappeared early on, last 3 were kinda sad though, they perished within a couple of hours of their morning feeding and had red blotches on their stomachs so they either stuffed themselves or the brine shrimp they ate damaged them internally.
As far as method, I am raising Rotifers using the 2 bucket method and feeding Reef Nutrition Rotifer Diet. After that I started to feed Freshly hatched brine shrimp, starting at about day 7 while still having rotifers in the tank. I started doing bigger water changes over the next couple of days to diminish the rotifer population and fed brine at least 4 times a day.
Most of the issues I've had were with Brine Shrimp.... I've got the Otohime pelletts on order from Reef Nutrition ( basically really small marine pelletts) in all of the different sizes. It's a real chore to strain the brine shrimp and get the shells out/ off. I've even use decapsulated and then they just never hatched. If I can just cultivate brine shrimp for a handfull of days and then get them eating pelletts by like day 20... things would be a lot easier.
The clowns are just a really nice pair of true percs from the wild, that have been in captivity for over 10 years.... anybody remember Hightide Aquatics, they were their show pair.
As far as repeating this process... the second batch did not do so well. The parents are in a 120 reef, so I have to pull the entire rock with the eggs, on the correct night. I pulled the rock out on night 8 and only 1 fry hatched, by night 9 many of the eggs had succumb to a white infection no matter how much I tried to save them, so I only got 7 to hatch and am already down to 2 by day 15. It's also fairly time comsuming.... every chance I get I run down and check on them or feed them a little. Daily water changes of even a half filled 10 gallon tank are cumbersome, siphoning as much as possible off the bottom of the tank. All of that being said, I'd like to raise of couple of batches until I get the first batch to sellable/ realistic size... which could be a good 6 months. I'm trying to keep it small and make it as simple as possible so that I continue and don't get burn't out.
Dave
