Clownfish breeders, please help!

[cdipasquale]

Great thanks, he's in his own 10 gallon now and i'm using an API Antibiotic that I got from petsmart because nobody local had nitrofuran. But i did order some so I have it incase this doesn't work. Thanks for all the help.
Here is a pic of the babys now at about 20 days old just to keep you updated. Looks like 6 of them are going to be platinum. They have a complete white head and the rest of the body is a translucent white. Pretty cool looking.

 

[billsreef]

They are looking good

 

[alaska clowns]

Beautiful baby clowns! I think it's fun to see the differences in the babies. What do you feed your little guys?

 

[cdipasquale]

I mix it up between oto b1, crushed flake and cyclop-eeze.

 

[cdipasquale]

Bill, Is it normal to have a few dieoffs during growout? About a week ago I woke up one morning and had 3 dead....they were all still in the larvae tank up to this point. I check parameters and nitrite had spiked. I had the growout ready anyways, so I moved them all to the growout and they have been there for the last 4 days without any problems. Woke up this morning and head 2 more dead but the rest seem fine and they all seem to eat well. Nothing abnormal with water quality that I can find at all this time.

So i'm wondering if this is normal, maybe just dieoff of the weaker offspring, or if there is probably something wrong. I started with about 75 juvies, lost about 10 throught the first few days, and then didn't loose another one until last week.

 

[phil519]

i'm no expert - but this is fairly normal. I've had babies die just from the changeover from rotifers to ohto/bbs. For your first time - 75 is an incredible achievement in my opinion.

 

[ClownfishSushi]

Bill, Is it normal to have a few dieoffs during growout? About a week ago I woke up one morning and had 3 dead....they were all still in the larvae tank up to this point. I check parameters and nitrite had spiked. I had the growout ready anyways, so I moved them all to the growout and they have been there for the last 4 days without any problems. Woke up this morning and head 2 more dead but the rest seem fine and they all seem to eat well. Nothing abnormal with water quality that I can find at all this time.

So i'm wondering if this is normal, maybe just dieoff of the weaker offspring, or if there is probably something wrong. I started with about 75 juvies, lost about 10 throught the first few days, and then didn't loose another one until last week.

Clownfish are mean. You are going to get bullying and the smaller juveniles are going to drop off one at a time, especially if you go more than 5 hours between feedings. Plus some fish just die no matter what.

In my experience there are basically 2 scenarios that can happen when you are dealing with 75 juveniles in a confined space. Either:

A. The aggression is spread out evenly enough that no fish takes lethal damage or...

B. The harem decides to collectively pick on the weakest member and you can anticipate losing a juvenile every single day until you are left with 4-6 adults out of the original 75.

This is why some breeders like to sell their fish as young as 4 months. They take daily loses if they hold onto their inventory indefinitely.