Eggs!! will they make it?

[cristhiam]

My two year old clown have eggs, I can see tiny eyes. Will they make it in there? it will be hard to remove the eggs from the frogspawn.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

do you have crabs? shrimp? starfish? other fish?

if not then maybe...

there are several threads showing how to prep for the next clutch though...and you should be able to make them live...

they need live foods...Rotifers i believe, rotifers need phyto...so you need to have both cultures on hand..

best of luck that is awesome...i cant wait fo rmine to do the same...

 

[cristhiam]

2 yellows tail damsels, yellow watchman goby (in sump), tail spot blennie, purple pseudocromis, starry blennie, 2 clowns, 1 black clown, mandarine, Yellow tang, 1 pistol, about 60 snails, 30 blue hermits and a pistol, tank is a reef.

Nothing gets close to where the clowns are, they chase everything away, I don't think the babies will make it, I don't have the rotifers maybe for the next time, I might try to get them when they hatch just to see what they look like, I think is getting close to it, I can see little eyes.

Now the question is who are the parents? the orange and the black?, or the 2 oranges, they stay at that frogspawn all the time the 3, but now they are chaning the smallest orange clown out.

 

[cristhiam]

Here is a video you can see they allways kick the other one out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfJ3uk27ntA

 

[rkelman]

They won't make it in that tank Cristhiam. You need to setup a larvae tank. You must be doing something right they are spawning for you. See my thread at http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1333809&goto=newpost
Feel free to PM me if you want to try and raise them. I'll help in any way I can.

 

[cristhiam]

Thank you rkelman that's a great thread. Well as I said I was not ready, they hatched last night and not sure where they went probably got sucked in the filtration, I have a 20G that I might set up for the next time, can clowns mix like black and orange, not sure what my orange clowns are.

 

[rkelman]

20g is way to big. You need a 10g tank. You have to put alot of rotifers in the water so the fry will be able to eat and in a 20g that would be an enormous amount. For $10-$15 you can have a new 10g. Yes clowns can mix. You have 3 clowns now? 1 Black and 2 Orange? Are the Orange ones large or small? They are likely Ocellaris.

 

[cristhiam]

Thanks I'll take a look at a 10G tank, all 3 clowns are 2 years old and they were the same size when I got them but one of the Ocellaris stayed small, the other 2 are large. The black one is the largest of the 3.

 

[cristhiam]

How often they lay eggs? look at the black clow and the other orange their bellies are big! and the small clown is acting like it gets electrocuted this is pretty cool.

 

[fishkid6692]

they will lay eggs every 2-2 1/2 weeks.

 

[Ladipyg]

That black is beautiful. Try MOFIB.org a wealth of info for anyone trying to breed marine, ornamental, fish and invertbrate breeders. You'll be up to date and ready to go after reading their clown breeders forum.
Good luck next time. As cruel as it sounds your corals and other fish will keep them from surviving in the tank as is.

 

[rkelman]

Mine lay every 14 days give or take a day. Its strange. Only 1 will be female (the black one I'd say) which ones are paired?

 

[cristhiam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12272795#post12272795 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rkelman
Mine lay every 14 days give or take a day. Its strange. Only 1 will be female (the black one I'd say) which ones are paired?

I think the orange and the black are allways together jumping from the frogspawn to the torch, the other orange (smallest) swims around but sometimes all three are in one of those two corals. Most of the time they are chasing the smallest out.

 

[rkelman]

So you have the large black occ that is the female. The smaller of the 2 large is the male and the other is still a juvenile and will stay that way because of the hierarchy in your system. If one of the others dies it will move up the ladder so to speak. If the others are being cruel to it. (they may get worse with a nest) You may need to find another home for it.

 

[Lifes A Beach]

I have a mixed pair also. The female is orange/white and the male is black/white. They are laying eggs every 10 days! Here's my thread with a video of them spawning:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1317074

An excellent book for anyone with clownfish and trying to raise their fry is "Clownfish" by Joyce Wilkerson. It will explain everything in great detail.

I've seen other threads on "snaggers" which is a DIY box for collecting the fry when they hatch in parent or main tank. You can do a search on it for more information.

--Barbara

 

[cristhiam]

Hi, here is a video of the 3 clowns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8uzCXtfrHU

 

[cristhiam]

Today more eggs!! it was pretty cool too see