Clown fish breeding help
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I got off track on your first question on how to get your clown fish to lay eggs .
Feed them at least four times a day with high-quality food and one time a day with live baby brine shrimp I like to you use cyclop eez and mysis and as was said before turn your water up to at least 80 if not 82 and drop your salinity down if you don't have corals and within six months you should have eggs maybe sooner if your fish are old enough and by far I believe the most important thing is the live baby brine shrimp whatever reason it really seems to induce fish into spawning
And I would put each pair of your clown fish in a separate 10 gallon tank tied together with a larger sump so you have at least 50 gallons of water so it keeps your parameters stable.
I have spawned black-and-white tomato clowns Clarki clowns maroon clowns and Percula clowns all in 10 gallon tanks and you can always use your sump for another pair I have an F3 pair of ocellaris in one of my sumps that lay eggs all the time The fry is a pain in the butt to collect out of the sump
Feed them at least four times a day with high-quality food and one time a day with live baby brine shrimp I like to you use cyclop eez and mysis and as was said before turn your water up to at least 80 if not 82 and drop your salinity down if you don't have corals and within six months you should have eggs maybe sooner if your fish are old enough and by far I believe the most important thing is the live baby brine shrimp whatever reason it really seems to induce fish into spawning
And I would put each pair of your clown fish in a separate 10 gallon tank tied together with a larger sump so you have at least 50 gallons of water so it keeps your parameters stable.
I have spawned black-and-white tomato clowns Clarki clowns maroon clowns and Percula clowns all in 10 gallon tanks and you can always use your sump for another pair I have an F3 pair of ocellaris in one of my sumps that lay eggs all the time The fry is a pain in the butt to collect out of the sump
I have every thing you said early except rot the tubs and a rotifer batch, I tried to get an phytoplankton batch going so I could feed the rotifers but it never started up. Because of that I never tried to get a rotifer culture going. I don't think paying for phytoplankton to feed the rotifers is worth if I can culture them to. Does anyone do or know how to do that can help me?
HowManyClowns
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Culturing rotifers is a LOT of work. Adding phyto to that makes it even more.
On top of that Rotigrow / RG Complete is the absolute best food you can feed to the rotifers - what you feed them absolutely impacts how your larvae do.
For me its a no brainer, but I understand that some people would prefer to do it themselves, but raising larvae, tending to broodstock and maintaining a healthy rotifer culture is enough for me
I would get your clowns spawning before you jump into raising rotifers if I were you.
On top of that Rotigrow / RG Complete is the absolute best food you can feed to the rotifers - what you feed them absolutely impacts how your larvae do.
For me its a no brainer, but I understand that some people would prefer to do it themselves, but raising larvae, tending to broodstock and maintaining a healthy rotifer culture is enough for me
I would get your clowns spawning before you jump into raising rotifers if I were you.
HowManyClowns
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BIGSKY - I like the round tub set up, I think I am going to look into that. I have way too many 10G tanks going.
I don't find rotifers hard work at all it does take 15 minutes out of each day to take care of them and you have to take care of them every night be able to miss one day here or there but they need to be fed basically every day and harvested every day. I use the nano 3600 from Reed mariculture for the food and I add A Capfull of prime every other night with the algae I have a 6 gallon culture and I take 1 gallon out every night and 1 gallon of fresh salt water with algae every third night I take 2 gallons out and clean the bottom of the tub.
You don't need a heater all you need is a small Aristone with a small airpump
But once again there's 1 million ways to do it and you can get the same results in the end.
You don't need a heater all you need is a small Aristone with a small airpump
But once again there's 1 million ways to do it and you can get the same results in the end.
Just make sure you get dark colored ones dark green or black I tried a bright yellow one and for whatever reason I could not get my fish to survive in there.
I believe you will be more successful with the tubs and please let me know how it works out.
_shorty_
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I was in the same thinking too - grow my own phyto. Which I do - but you have to grow a BUNCH of phyto to keep up with a healthy rotifer culture!! The growing of the phyto is not hard in my opinion, it's growing it in enough quantity that is the hard part. I use phyto paste and suppliment with my different strains of live phyto (only using live phyto in with fry).
HowManyClowns
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You can get everything from reedmariculture.com, get rg complete to feed rotifers and get l-type rotifers. Do NOT forget the rotifer floss or get a compact culture system.
HowManyClowns
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Catches waste without trapping rotifers. You can do either, I have 1 CCS in one bucket and just a piece of rotifer floss and rigid airline in the second bucket. Other types of foam and stuff will trap rotifers too so you don't want that.
CCS does keep it cleaner so probably a good idea in the beginning if you can afford it. Make sure you start 2 cultures right away because you WILL crash one and you dont want to have to order rotifers again if you dont have to
When you set it up, get white buckets so its easy to clean. Lowes have white "food grade" buckets for a few bucks.
CCS does keep it cleaner so probably a good idea in the beginning if you can afford it. Make sure you start 2 cultures right away because you WILL crash one and you dont want to have to order rotifers again if you dont have to
When you set it up, get white buckets so its easy to clean. Lowes have white "food grade" buckets for a few bucks.
_shorty_
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Can I ask how long you've been in the hobby? No offense intended here, but I personally don't suggest (and wouldn't myself) put the money in for any equipment until you have a breeding pair. It sounds like you have some filtration and maybe husbandry issues to work through in keeping a healthy system before you are going to be able to consider breeding. You asked in the bengaii breeding thread about why you are loosing cardinals when you put them in - that's probably due to low water quality. Clowns are pretty tough little fish (more so than cardinals) - but getting them to breeding state is much more than simply keeping them alive.
I suggest that be your focus now: research general reef/salt keeping, read, research, ask questions in the forums about filtration and husbandry techniques specific to your situation to help you get your system operating smoothly and healthfully with low nutrients consistently. Consistency and stability (along with patience) are all KEY in this hobby. Also, put thought and research into how to maintain these husbandry techniques with as little effort as reasonable. Research some more and read some more... then start putting some of your research and $$ into practice. Once you get your system good and healthy and stable over a period of several months is when you will more likely be able to start worrying about breeding and purchasing the equipment needed for this. Otherwise, I'm affraid you are most likely setting yourself up for disappointment and heartache.
Best of luck to you!!
I suggest that be your focus now: research general reef/salt keeping, read, research, ask questions in the forums about filtration and husbandry techniques specific to your situation to help you get your system operating smoothly and healthfully with low nutrients consistently. Consistency and stability (along with patience) are all KEY in this hobby. Also, put thought and research into how to maintain these husbandry techniques with as little effort as reasonable. Research some more and read some more... then start putting some of your research and $$ into practice. Once you get your system good and healthy and stable over a period of several months is when you will more likely be able to start worrying about breeding and purchasing the equipment needed for this. Otherwise, I'm affraid you are most likely setting yourself up for disappointment and heartache.
Best of luck to you!!
HowManyClowns
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Shorty is right, I purchased 3 PROVEN breeding pairs when I first started thinking about breeding and I went ahead and bought rotifers and all of that stuff. By the time I had any eggs to take care of (6 months later) I had already crashed my rotifer cultures a couple times and had to re-order food and rotifers from Reed.
When you see eggs, order rotifer stuff from Reed. That would be the smartest way to do it, otherwise you are going to be wasting a lot of time and money trying to keep rotifers that you don't need alive
When you see eggs, order rotifer stuff from Reed. That would be the smartest way to do it, otherwise you are going to be wasting a lot of time and money trying to keep rotifers that you don't need alive
I have had a fish tank my whole life but it hasn't been until 6 years ago I really got into the hobby. I want to get my nitrates lower so I'm getting ready to get a refugium for my tank and with my research says it should lower it to almost 0 ppm. I'm not sure what you mean by husbandry. All my permitters are constant at good levels except for my nitrates.
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