help please!!!quick question eggs are bright silver???

[Hendersonracing]

ok...My eggs are laid on the bottom of the overflow...they missed the tile???figure that..can I catch them with a net? they are on day 8 and very silver? I have my rotifers and holding tank ready..what should I do? someone said flasliht turn off all the pumps and they will come to the light?

another question I had the flaslight ready when the lights went off but they never hatched? does that mean mabe tomorrow or will I have to sit and wait?

Thanks Joe...this will be my 1st attempt at raising clowns...

any help please I dont want to miss this hatch?

 

[Hendersonracing]

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[Lifes A Beach]

If they are silver, that usually means they're ready to hatch. So if not then, maybe tonight. I have found that trying to catch fry in a main tank is really difficult. I turned off all the pumps and waited with a flashlight but they scoot around so quickly that's it hard to catch them. I tried using a siphon and tried a turkey baster and was able to only collect a few. Since they are so small, the mesh on a net is too wide to capture them.

Good luck!

--Barbara

 

[Hendersonracing]

Barbara they didn't hatch last night but Im 100% sure tonight is the night...my net is very fine so Im not sure if it will work...Ive been told that a net will stress them out! I was thinking about mabe trying to collect them with a container of some kind?

 

[Lifes A Beach]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11964539#post11964539 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hendersonracing
I was thinking about mabe trying to collect them with a container of some kind?

When they hatch, you'll see what I'm talking about as far as trying to catch them. If you have a small net that you think will work, that will probably be the best and easiest way. In Wilkerson's Clownfish book, she describes a trap that you can make to catch them. Good luck!

--Barbara

 

[Hendersonracing]

so has anyone had any luck catching them with a net??? I can catch copepods with this net! but they are pretty big!

 

[ShannHell]

The net is likely to damage and injure the larvae to the point that it would be unlikely they would be able to survive

 

[Hendersonracing]

ok Ill try the open container and see If I can get a few of them?? any other suggestions?

 

[thegoaliestaxi]

I have used the scooping method as described by Joyce Wilkerson.

Her book says -- when it's time for lights out -- shut off the filters and pumps (anything that creates flow). Turn off all lights in the room and make it as dark as possible in the tank. Wait about 5 minutes and then shine a pen-light down into the tank. (Not right onto the clutch tho.) Make sure the light is not pointed at a coral or something that will eat the fry As the fry hatch, they will make their way to your light. At the same time, very very gently hold a small bowl partway in the water. Once you have a good few fry all in a little bunch, move your light so it hits the inside of the bowl (submerged) --- this should make the fry swim into the bowl.......then -- again very gently -- raise up the bowl and put the babies in your other tank. If possible, let the babies swim out of the bowl instead of just dumping them in.

Repeat as necessary -- the book says that the all hatching will likely be finished within 2 hours. But - it might not take that long either And sometimes half will hatch on one night and half on another night.

Once you've made all your transfers, be sure to turn your filters and such back on.

It takes a good bit of practice and patience -- having a buddy their to assist would be a great help. They could be on "light duty" while you did the actual moving of the precious cargo.

Mucho Luck!!!!

 

[Hendersonracing]

thanks Ill keep you psted on what happens...Im sure tonight is the night!

 

[davidandliz]

i used a net and had success but my copepods ate them

 

[Hendersonracing]

well I scooped them up last night I guess about 20 of them...and boy I hope she lays on the tile next time...this is pretty hard to do....

I put them in my holding tank about 2 gallons with about 2 bubbles per second....temperature was 78 and belive it or not my heater broke...I woke this morning and it was down to 70 and a few were dead? Im not sure this is from the 7 degree water change or not??? also I wasn't for sure how much to feed them so I added alot of rotifers and had a light on them all night? do you think the light could have caused issues being on that long???


any help is appreciated

Joe

 

[Lifes A Beach]

For your sake, I hope she lays them on a tile too! It makes things a heck of a lot easier to just move the tile and eggs to a nursery tank.

Did your holding tank have water from the main tank? Could also be the stress of the move. Some losses, esp. in the beginning, are expected. I would not have kept the light on all night since they hatch in darkness (a reason for that) and their eyes are very sensitive to light the first few days. This is the reason for covering the sides of the tank. Don't really know if that could have caused them to die. Having the rotifers ready for them is a really good thing.

Just be patient and learn from mistakes! I'm going through the learning process with each hatch. Good luck!

--Barbara

 

[Hendersonracing]

THANKS About left....Most went in the tank I couldn't get...lol anyway feeding rotifers & have my brine shrimp hatchery ready for about day 10 if they survive....I also have mytank surrounded with tile forthe new lavae? hope she uses it this time??She had over 100 eggs and I barely cought 20? so hope next time I have things ready...I have a few books Im going to start reading...any more tips?

 

[Atticus]

I used a large siphon tube and flashlight for mine. I have also used a cereal bowl. The trick is to wait for the eyes to bronze. This comes the night of the spawn and it takes a few batches to get used to seeing it over the silver. You can look at the male and tell the night of hatch as he will start fanning much harder the day prior to hatch. Get the room as dark as possible and turn the pumps off the night you expect a hatch. Do not disturb the tank until 3 hours after lights out. Place the flashlight so it points to a top corner of the tank to draw the fry off the bottom. Scoop from the dark side of the tank, letting the water draw the fry into the bowl. You should have a fry tank ready with 5 gallons of parent tank water in it with matching temp to place the fry into. This water can be drawn off the day of or night before the hatch. Do NOT do a water change prior to hatch. Only replace the 5 gallons after the eggs have hatched.

 

[Hendersonracing]

I still have 5 babies.....I still think it would be easier to have them lay the eggs on a tile and move them over to the holding tank....I have alot of fish that ate most of the fry the other night!