Help Please - Baby clowns
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agsansoo
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What a difference one day makes. I went from around 60 + larval when I collected them on Sunday night. To about 10 alive by day 3. Most were still alive yesterday. I would take a picture, but their so small you can't see them in my photos. The larval look darker in color, almost black.
What a difference one day makes. I went from around 60 + larval when I collected them on Sunday night. To about 10 alive by day 3. Most were still alive yesterday. I would take a picture, but their so small you can't see them in my photos. The larval look darker in color, almost black.
xxpipedreamxx
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Keep us updated 
Hopefully you can get pics up soon.
Hopefully you can get pics up soon.
agsansoo
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This is so frustrating ! Day 2 I had 60+ alive, day 3 only ten alive, day 4 two alive. Today, day 5 I have none. This is worst odds than the fry left in the tank ! They're still alive. I'm at a lost for answers. I need to research this further.
My rotifer tank is getting a brownish gunk on the bottom of the tank. Do I need to feed them less ? Clean it out ? Or transfer the rotifers to a new holding tank ?
This is so frustrating ! Day 2 I had 60+ alive, day 3 only ten alive, day 4 two alive. Today, day 5 I have none. This is worst odds than the fry left in the tank ! They're still alive. I'm at a lost for answers. I need to research this further.
My rotifer tank is getting a brownish gunk on the bottom of the tank. Do I need to feed them less ? Clean it out ? Or transfer the rotifers to a new holding tank ?
I would suggest doing away with using one tank for your rotifer culture. If it should crash, you have to start over from scratch. Try splitting your culture between 4 - 5 containers. I use 1g square plastic containers from Dollar General or Big Lots that contain bottled water. Use rigid air line for each container running from bottom of container through the cap. Then run flex air line to a 4/5 gang valve. You do have to clean out gunk from bottom of containers every couple of weeks. Have some extra containers available. Slowly empty approx 75% of the culture container into a clean container and top off with fresh salt water. In essence, you're doing a periodic water change. You are trying to feed your rotifers whenever their water turns a light green. If you don't clean your containers regularly, they get a film on the sides so that you can't really tell the true color of the water. I just rinse out the used containers and then soak them in a weak bleach solution. When done, just thoroughly rinse them out.
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This is so frustrating ! Day 2 I had 60+ alive, day 3 only ten alive, day 4 two alive. Today, day 5 I have none. This is worst odds than the fry left in the tank ! They're still alive. I'm at a lost for answers. I need to research this further.
My rotifer tank is getting a brownish gunk on the bottom of the tank. Do I need to feed them less ? Clean it out ? Or transfer the rotifers to a new holding tank ?
I FEEL YOU'RE PAIN !!! We will figure this out though. Any more eggs yet? Pugi
From what I've read, feed your fry approximately 4 hours after you've fed your rotifers LIVE phyto. This gives your fry the optimum nutritional value from the rotifers. Also, add live phyto to your fry tank I would say for at least the first week. This way your feeding the rotifers in the fry tank while the fry are learning how to hunt them, and you're also eliminating an eventual die off of rotifers. The live phyto does not seem to bother the fry. I'll also use the phyto in the larval tank when it's time to feed brine shrimp. Seems to extend their life span.
I stress LIVE phyto, because in between harvesting rotifers for the fry tank, I will feed the rotifers alternate foods such as non-living phyto or a very blended mixture of yeast, flour, and fish food pellets. Since I get my live phyto from DT, it does cut down on the expense. One drawback from the mixture, it may speed up the need to do a rotifer container water change due to the crud that settles.
I stress LIVE phyto, because in between harvesting rotifers for the fry tank, I will feed the rotifers alternate foods such as non-living phyto or a very blended mixture of yeast, flour, and fish food pellets. Since I get my live phyto from DT, it does cut down on the expense. One drawback from the mixture, it may speed up the need to do a rotifer container water change due to the crud that settles.
agsansoo
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While the forth batch of eggs are ready to hatch. So far out of the previous three hatches, I have one lone survivor in a 5 gallon tank. All larvae from the third hatch that I put in the 5 gallon tank last week, died. Survivors from the first and second hatch (which the single survivor is one) are all doing well in the the main display tank. I watch with amazement, all the little fry swimming around the rocks and coral. I think I will stop trying to catch them from now on. Not sure how this will turn out.
While the forth batch of eggs are ready to hatch. So far out of the previous three hatches, I have one lone survivor in a 5 gallon tank. All larvae from the third hatch that I put in the 5 gallon tank last week, died. Survivors from the first and second hatch (which the single survivor is one) are all doing well in the the main display tank. I watch with amazement, all the little fry swimming around the rocks and coral. I think I will stop trying to catch them from now on. Not sure how this will turn out.
barelycuda
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When you move the larvae from your display tank to the 5g fry tank is the water from the display? Also is the temp the same? I have raised approx 700 ocellaris now from the last 5 hatches & might be able to help if you want. I do not even begin to know it all but have done a lot of reading & have had some success.
agsansoo
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Yes the water was from the display tank. Temp was the same also. The lone survivor in the grow-out tank was siphoned from the display tank after the first hatch. He is still small, and hides under the sponge filter 99% of the time when the light is on. Not sure what he does with the moon lights on. I also read somewhere that the growth rate of maroon clowns is much slower than ocellaris. Anyone know if this is true ?
kerusso316
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You need to get hem laying on a tile.Terracotta plate.your fish will reject it in the beginning.They will love it in time.
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