feeding clownfish larvae hard boiled egg yolk

[adtravels]

I have been told by a guy who has bred clowns here in bangkok that he uses hard boiled eggyolk as a first food and then moves to a mixture of this and spirulina powder.

Can this be possible???

 

[traveller7]

Egg yolks have been a long time freshwater first food, but water fouling in fresh and salt water along have quite different impacts. Pretty sure it is easier to breed Rotifers then keep up with the constant water changes required, if the clown larvae would even consider egg yolks as first foods.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

this is the first time I've even heard of feeding Clownfish larvae egg yolk!
I'm very skeptical. I don't think the feeding response would be the same as with live rotifers.

 

[OrionN]

When I used egg yolk for fresh water fish (coi and gold fish) I did not boil it but dry the egg yolk uncooked in thin layers and then grind it up as food for the fish.

 

[BonsaiNut]

I have used hard-boiled egg yolk in the past for freshwater and it was one of my favorite small foods, but I was never successful with it for saltwater. Some of the fish larvae WOULD take it, but many would not, and it always made a huge mess in the larval tank. One nice thing was that you could always immediately tell which larvae were taking it because their bellies would get nice and yellow

 

[adtravels]

I am impressed by the response that this subject has aroused, some exeperience willing to comment.
i have no access to rotifers or green water starter cultures here, but theres plenty of eggs! and powdered spirulina. I guess as my two pairs are well established and I and just playing that waiting game. I Will have yo experiment

 

[vaporize]

that eggyolk feeding was more of an experimental food back in the early days of clownfish rearing I think, nowadays everybody move to rotifier

 

[Champ-BKK]

K. Adtravels
who told you krab which farm?
Normally they use rotifers.

Nice to know u.
You play in reefthailand?

:mixed:

 

[adtravels]

where do you get rots in bkk??

 

[traveller7]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9843061#post9843061 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adtravels
where do you get rots in bkk??

Have you contacted any University Science departments?

 

[adtravels]

I did think of that and thereis a website in the back of wilkersons book thaT is all to do with aquaculture and raising of shrimp for the food industry so maybe its just a case of looking harder.

All other live foods are readily avaliable here in fact in abundance every small fish store sells live brine, glass shrimp and tilapia
and at the market you can get baby brine and bloodworm
I will keep trying.