If first you don't suceed....try try try

I am going to order RG Complete on Monday and anotherbag of rotifers and try again to ccollect next weekend she laid her eggs today.. So glad she did it on a friday that way I don't have to worry about getting up early for work. And maybe as you say above try, try againhopefully with better luck.
 
mwilliams62 said:
How are you collecting your fry?
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I am using the Vossen fry trap. There is real no other way to get them my tank is a 150 tall that is 31" deep. I have tried to collect them with a small flashlight and cup but it was really tedious and I ended up staying up half the night for just a few fry. I really do not want to take the parents out and put them in a breeder tank just for the sake of breeding when this is working for me. They happily lay eggs on a smooth piece of live rock almost every 14 days. With the trap I have collected over a 100 in my last batch and last night the clutch was smaller I collected around 50.
 
That is where my pair is at in the DT and I also use that trap but I also end collecting those baby bristle worms. Were there any eggs left after last night?
 
mwilliams62 said:
I am going to order RG Complete on Monday and anotherbag of rotifers and try again to ccollect next weekend she laid her eggs today.. So glad she did it on a friday that way I don't have to worry about getting up early for work. And maybe as you say above try, try againhopefully with better luck.
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Awesome it makes it so easier when you don't have to get up the next day for work and you are home to peek on the babies over the day. Also, one thing that I didn't do in the past that I am now is when I collect my fry I drip 2 liters of RO water into my fry tank so that it lowers the salinity before I add the rotifers. I have learned no matter how many of them you add it doesn't do the babies any good in the first few days if when you add them they don't move because of salinity shock. I also keep diffused lighting over the fry tank 24 hours a day for at least the first 3 days. Then daily I remove one layer of paper towel between the lights and tank. I usually start with about 5-6 layers of thick paper towel.
I hope any tips I can give you that have worked for me, might help your success rate too. :)
 
mwilliams62 said:
That is where my pair is at in the DT and I also use that trap but I also end collecting those baby bristle worms. Were there any eggs left after last night?
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Before I take the trap out I always check the nest site with a red light to see if there are any eggs left. I got them all last night, it was just a smaller clutch. I have so many bristle worms in my tank I have even seen a mass spawn but I have never seen any in the trap when collecting fry. I have collected lots of mysids though, I just add them to the fry tank. They usually die off in the first week or so. Can you siphon the baby bristle worms out?
 
I don't want to get too excited at this point but day 2 and the larvae I collected Friday night are all doing well. No losses so far!!! My older fry are now at 24 DPH and are still approx 34 fry in number. The only thing I have done different from last batch to this one is I am now feeding my rotifers RGcomplete instead of nannochloropsis paste. I am hoping the buffers in the RGcomplete are just the thing I need to increase my success rate.
 
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Here is 11 of the 30. They all have their first stripes and are doing great. On Otohime B2 and eat 4 times a day. They are all very funny in the morning as they all huddle in one corner of the tank and most of them swim upside down! So cool to see. This picture was taken at feeding time and before the floor of the tank was cleaned. They are quite the little pigs.
 
This is a interesting thread thanks for sharing I am just starting out as well, with very little luck. I have never lowered my salinity in my fry tank before, I was always told the water needs to be the same as the parents tank. Is anyone else doing this?
 
The water in my fry tank is from the parents tank which I yry to keep it at 1.022 or 1.023. I know that is low for reef but my corals what little I have in there are doing good.. my rotifers I try to keep at 1.020.. TRY is the key word but doesn't always work out.
 
Oh Yes. I have been busy but not been posting a lot. My neighbor has a pair of Ocellarius clowns that have been laying regularly. I have collected 3 batches from his tank and now have 13 little clowns that were hatched on the 30th of Jan, 35 that were hatched on 13 Feb, and about a hundred that hatched on the 26th of Feb. I missed batch 4 that hatched this past Saturday but I have my hands full for now. I have learned from each batch and am enjoying this project. I have 2 remaining Percs left and started a small reef tank of their very own. How are your clowns doing?
 
Just read through the thread. It's so nice to see that slot of you don't give up. I just got some black Ocellaris and they layed the first week I had them!!! And i might be getting a pair of tomatoes that are spawning! This hobby is so fun but expensive lol.
 
If first you don't suceed....try try try

saltyjo said:
Oh Yes. I have been busy but not been posting a lot. My neighbor has a pair of Ocellarius clowns that have been laying regularly. I have collected 3 batches from his tank and now have 13 little clowns that were hatched on the 30th of Jan, 35 that were hatched on 13 Feb, and about a hundred that hatched on the 26th of Feb. I missed batch 4 that hatched this past Saturday but I have my hands full for now. I have learned from each batch and am enjoying this project. I have 2 remaining Percs left and started a small reef tank of their very own. How are your clowns doing?
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Doing okay but when I moved my breeding pair out of the DT thinking the issue was that the male was not getting enough food because of the other fish getting it before he did. Well he is still doing the same thing in their own tank so I don't know if that is effecting his capability to fertilize the eggs or not. The batches have been small compared to when they were in the DT and by the time it is hatch night there would only be about 20 eggs left. But this last one that they laid on March 3rd would have been a really nice one but within three days half of them turned white. So I have not been able to collect any since the one and only batch from June of last year. Three of them ended up with flared gills and I was told I am suppose to flush them and I just can't bring myself to doing that. Just don't know what I am going to do with them.
 
mwilliams62 said:
Doing okay but when I moved my breeding pair out of the DT thinking the issue was that the male was not getting enough food because of the other fish getting it before he did. Well he is still doing the same thing in their own tank so I don't know if that is effecting his capability to fertilize the eggs or not. The batches have been small compared to when they were in the DT and by the time it is hatch night there would only be about 20 eggs left. But this last one that they laid on March 3rd would have been a really nice one but within three days half of them turned white. So I have not been able to collect any since the one and only batch from June of last year. Three of them ended up with flared gills and I was told I am suppose to flush them and I just can't bring myself to doing that. Just don't know what I am going to do with them.
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Sorry to hear this. I am going to have to look up pictures of flared gills. I don't know if I will be any good at culling any defects either.
 
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