Don't count 'em, but there are 1061!!

[Kathy55g]

Don't count your eggs before they hatch, but we started with 1061 eggs, and they are hatching right now!!!!

I peeked...I peeked with a dim flashlight shaded with my hand so that only a tiny stream of light hit the tank farthest from the eggs, and I think there is a lot of larvae. I'll know more tomorrow morning!

This is positively the last hatch before Italy. Really!

 

[jnowell]

GEEZ! How awesome is that! Mine lay roughly 200-250 max. No way I could feed 1000, I'd have to put them IN the rotifer culture

Good luck, with those odds you can get 100 through even with a 10% success rate...but I bet you're way above that now. I'm not

Jason

 

[NicoleC]

My clowns laid another astonishingly big nest tonight. No, I have no room for them and my rotifer cultures are on "simmer," but since I had a fish die recently from some sort of infection (she injured herself), I've been double feeding the other fish and stuffing them full of vitamins.

Well! My gobies are so fat they hardly look like gobies anymore, but the clowns are just laying more eggs!

 

[spk]

Nicole,

Wow, you are so lucky to have your clowns laying so much now. I wish mine would start. Ho Hum, I will have to be patient.

Found some one close to me that has differnet pairs of clowns that lay egss, so might try the egg transfer routine if I can. Need to wait and see what happens.

Bangai, are breeding like rabbits at the moment, but hey it's the start that I was looking for.

Good luck to you both.

Steve

 

[Kathy55g]

Sounds good Steve. I've had good luck getting eggs from another's tank.

There are A LOT of larvae this morning. More than I could imagine. I took the tile out, and counted about 200 left on the tile. While i was looking at them under the scope, a dozen more hatched. I put the tile back in...

Fortunately, I have a lot of rotifers, I just hope my phyto holds out. Pictures, perhaps, tonight.

Cheers,
Kathy

 

[Kathy55g]

It was a BAD idea to put the tile back in. The tile sits on another tile with an airbar glued to it.

Apparantly, 189 larvae crawled under it yesterday to their hypoxic doom.

199 eggs unhatched.

(Kathy whips out calculator)

That leaves me with a possible 673 larvae.

Greed is a bad thing. I should have learned not to try for more hatching after the first mass.

Still, 673 is a large number. I'll do my best!

 

[Nagel]

WOW!

Just how do you count 1061 eggs!!! Sure it wasn't 1060 or 1062? :lol:

Good luck with them!!!

 

[ediaz]

Knowing Kathy, it is 1061

 

[Kathy55g]

just goes to show that Ed does not know everything. I did not count the eggs. My spawning clownfish owning friend took a picture soon after they showed up on the tile, and counted them from the picture. Of course, some did not make it, we have another picture taken on the day of hatch, but I have NOT counted them yet.

I do not think that I have 600 larvae in the tank. There are a lot of larvae, but not 600+.

I will count the uncounted one tonight. Thanks for reminding me of that one. I almost forgot.

But then, I forget a lot of stuff.

And I ramble....

 

[Kathy55g]

So there were 600ish on the tile at the end of the incubation. That leaves me with 200ish to raise. That seems a bit more than is in the tank right now, but it is impossible to count.

I do know that there are more larvae than i have ever raised in one batch still alive at day 6, and as long as I can refrain from being stupid again, this could be my big one.

Yesterday I introduced them to Otohime A, and this morning some of them presented me with pink bellies. I went ahead and gave them a little NHBS for the first time this morning. I hope they don't eat too much. It is hard for me to figure out how much to feed them as they are more numerous than I have previously dealt with.

I have a population that loves the shaded walls of the aquarium, and a population that swims around in the center, and a population that lounges on the floor. They all seem well fed, so I am guessing they are all OK.

When I acquired the tanks I am using the previous owner had painted 3 sides with blue paint. One was in good condition and the rest had lots of flaky places, so I scraped and repainted them black, except for the one that was in good condition. So I have one blue tank and 3 black ones. Having attempted to raise clownfish in the two different colors, I must say I prefer the blue. The orange fish contrast much better and the color seemed to have no impact on their survival. Given that I have old eyes, any help in seeing the fish is very welcome. I may have to scrape and paint the tanks again....

 

[Kathy55g]

Fat Wednesday--day 7

Fat Wednesday--day 7

They are SO fat. They have grown a lot! I had planned to give them the second NHBS of the day this evening, but after their meal of Otohime A, their bellies were so round and fat, that I thought if I fed them any more, they would burst. Stuffed to the gills, as they say. I have at least a hundred larvae, Day 7 and some are curling their tails....metamorphosis cannot be far off.

 

[HVF21221]

Do all your eggs hatch without the air bubbles agitating the eggs? The air bubbles don't look like they touch the eggs or were they adjusted for the photo?

 

[Kathy55g]

The air bubbles move the eggs without actually touching them. They draw currents of aerated water over the eggs.

My first attempt at hatching, I killed all the larvae by blasting the eggs with air bubbles directly. It was brutal.

 

[chungsl]

Hi Kathy, my breeding pair is black ocellaris.
I get 30% hatched without air bubble touch the eggs.
I always get >95% hatched with air bubble touch the eggs.

 

[Kathy55g]

Very interesting, Chunsl. I wonder if that first hatch was just a bad one, and had nothing to do with the bubbles beating the eggs....

 

[chungsl]

IMO ,bubbles beating the eggs that can be helpfull or harmfull, depend on the bubbling.

 

[Kathy55g]

can you show us a picture of your eggs and bubbles?

 

[chungsl]

i really a fresh man in breeding, only half year experience.
also simple setting, i use a air-wood (aquamedic) tune air with gentle rate, place the egg-tile or stone above the bubbles, beating the eggs, its degree of movement like their parent's.

but my pic can't reflect the actual rate of air. below pic is my first attempt hatching egg, i only use a fine air stone at that time but i use air-wood now for better result.

 

[ediaz]

I blast the **** out of my eggs, get very high hatch rates about 80%, sometimes even use a pump. With papa get about all eggs hatched.

Ed

 

[DorsalFin]

Wow, congrats on your eggs.