Clown laying eggs! help not ready! how can I raise them?

[Termo]

Hi All I have had the pair of clowns for more than two years, When I bought them I wasn't really educated and bought two that were similar in size. This resulted in fighting for the first few days until they "agreed" to be friends.

Over the last six months I have really noticed some growth in one of the fish and now now she is the female.

Today When I was cleaning the tank the clowns weren't too happy with me (normally usually docile) and started biting me, surprisingly hard for such a small fish.

My question is what do I do from here, how can I ensure that the eggs will hatch, what do I feed them?

Any Help will be very much appreciated.

 

[FMarini]

Once the eggs are laid you have approx 5-7days before they hatch. You'll need lots and lots of greenwater enriched rotifers. If you dont have any, then pretty much -your toast, you can try frozen rotifers, otohime or other frozen foods, but you'll end up w/ 1 or 2 survivors. Better than nothing i guess.
Your fish should spawn 1/month after this, so if your interested in raising the fry you might want to start your rotifer cultures for the next batch

 

[chuggy]

do you have eggs?
if so you need to start producing rotifers right now if you have any hopes of raising them.
you can get them overnighted from reed mariculture
what kind of clowns are they? what your tank temp?

 

[Plan>B]

Today When I was cleaning the tank the clowns weren't too happy with me (normally usually docile) and started biting me, surprisingly hard for such a small fish.

Same thing happened to my today. Mine are very docile and she was biting like crazy to my extended scraper. About an hour later my wife noticed eggs in the corner of the tank. Have no idea how long they have been there... but there they are. The wife REALLY wants to try to hatch them, but I am totally not prepared for this and have no clue on what to do.

 

[cabrego]

For the unprepared, your are NOT necessarily in an impossible situation. You have to become informed very quickly and of course you will need a batch of rotifers. Look locally first.

I was in this exact situation 2 weeks ago I was able to learn quickly doing A LOT of research and I am lucky enough to be part of a local marine society and picked up a gallon of rotifers to get me started. Two weeks later here I am and I have about 25 fry that have survived from my original ~100. If there is no way you can be ready for hatch night the good news is you can expect them to lay eggs 2 weeks to a month.

You are going to need supplies too.
-small tank
-heater
-air pump(s)
-baby brine hatchery for when they are about 10 days old


good luck

 

[r.d.m]

ocellaris only need live rotifers for the first 3 days, if you can get some live rotifers delivered and some reed rotifer diet you should be ok,on day 4 grind up some high quality flake or pellet food and offer this in small amounts about 5or6 times a day,when the larvae are hungry they will start to peck at the dry food,but watch the water quality and do a daily 50% change,also dose with prime or ammolock