Fish spawning in tank?

[Burgman]

Hi All,

Does anyone know if the Green Clown Goby will breed in captivity? About once a month after the lights go out in my tank I see what look to be small fish fry swimming around. I have two Green Gobies(the only pair of like fish I have in my tank). If they are breeding, what would I feed the fry to get them growing?

Dave

 

[mwp]

Dave, it's been done already. Here, Ed has done the Yellow Clowns I think.

Matt

 

[mwp]

BTW, do you have any shrimps or hermits? Of course, not saying they're NOT little fish you're seeing, but hey, shrimps and hermits have little larvae that swim around too...

Matt

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Re: Fish spawning in tank?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8649423#post8649423 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Burgman
...what would I feed the fry to get them growing?

Unfortunately it is impossible to raise them in the reef tank. You need a separate breeding set up with a few planton cultures, space and a lot of time

 

[Burgman]

Hi All,

Thanks for the input. I don't have any shrimp in the tank but I do have two or three hermits. Next time I see the fry swimming around I am going to try an isolate them in a separate tank & see what happens.

Dave

 

[David M]

Hermit crab larvae typically swim with their head down, hard to mistake them for clownfish fry. Also all the ones I have seen have orange markings wich you won't see on a clownfish larvae.

Just as a side note I happen to have some that came along unintentionally with some pipefish fry I was given. They are still alive after a week in a kreisel with nothing but L strain rotifers. Interesting.