gmneil
New member
let me start by saying I am not a newbee when it come to breeding clown fish I have about 7 years experience in doing this, at one point it was one of my jobs.
with that out of the way I'm interested in everyone's experiences on what they have done to successfully help the rate of eggs that hatch.
currently I have a system of close to 50 parent tanks, out of the 50 tanks at any given time 30 of the pairs are laying. the eggs tend to hatch between 8-10 days and are not consistent as of yet.
my current issue is sometimes the eggs don't hatch at all , sometimes they hatch right on time, and sometimes they partially hatch over a course of a couple days. however every time some of the eggs tend to fungus and turn white even on good hatches that seems to happen.
the parents diet used to be pe mysis during the week and spectrum pellets on the weekends. I have heard that pe mysis my make the egg shells harder and thus the lack of hatching, so about 2 weeks ago I switched to a variety of different pellets and stopped the pe mysis.
parent tanks are 78-80 and I match the rearing tank with parent tank water and same temp as they were in. all clowns lay on tiles, the air flow over the tiles is good no issues there.
anyone have any tips or tricks that they know may help the success rate of the clowns to actually hatch?
the ones that hatch I have great success with its just the lack of the hatch I am working on now
with that out of the way I'm interested in everyone's experiences on what they have done to successfully help the rate of eggs that hatch.
currently I have a system of close to 50 parent tanks, out of the 50 tanks at any given time 30 of the pairs are laying. the eggs tend to hatch between 8-10 days and are not consistent as of yet.
my current issue is sometimes the eggs don't hatch at all , sometimes they hatch right on time, and sometimes they partially hatch over a course of a couple days. however every time some of the eggs tend to fungus and turn white even on good hatches that seems to happen.
the parents diet used to be pe mysis during the week and spectrum pellets on the weekends. I have heard that pe mysis my make the egg shells harder and thus the lack of hatching, so about 2 weeks ago I switched to a variety of different pellets and stopped the pe mysis.
parent tanks are 78-80 and I match the rearing tank with parent tank water and same temp as they were in. all clowns lay on tiles, the air flow over the tiles is good no issues there.
anyone have any tips or tricks that they know may help the success rate of the clowns to actually hatch?
the ones that hatch I have great success with its just the lack of the hatch I am working on now