I get new baybe of clownfish
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chelseafan09
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Not to bring you down... but its a tad more complicated than the questions you have justed asked. I would suggest getting a clownfish breeding book for starters. There is a great one referenced on these boards many times before.
dantodd
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Unfortunately raising clownfish from eggs is fairly complicated. The good news is that once they start laying eggs you usually get a lot of chances to learn.
You need to raise live rotifers to feed the babies for them to survive. Raising live rotifer is fairly easy but it does take daily, or more, maintenance. You can read a little more about it here: http://www.rotifer.com
After a few days (depending on the species) you can add baby brine shrimp to the menu. Baby shrimp should be fed less than 18 hours after hatching. You'll also have to hatch and fortify the baby brine shrimp.
A few days later you can stop feeding rotifers and feed slightly older baby brine shrimp.
After about 2 weeks you can start adding some flake food and/or frozen food to the diet and wean them off of the baby brine shrimp.
This is the most basic description of a process that you can read a lot more about in the book "Clownfishes" by Joyce Wilkerson.
Where do you live? It may be hard to get live rotifers depending upon where you are.
HTH
You need to raise live rotifers to feed the babies for them to survive. Raising live rotifer is fairly easy but it does take daily, or more, maintenance. You can read a little more about it here: http://www.rotifer.com
After a few days (depending on the species) you can add baby brine shrimp to the menu. Baby shrimp should be fed less than 18 hours after hatching. You'll also have to hatch and fortify the baby brine shrimp.
A few days later you can stop feeding rotifers and feed slightly older baby brine shrimp.
After about 2 weeks you can start adding some flake food and/or frozen food to the diet and wean them off of the baby brine shrimp.
This is the most basic description of a process that you can read a lot more about in the book "Clownfishes" by Joyce Wilkerson.
Where do you live? It may be hard to get live rotifers depending upon where you are.
HTH
