rkelman - Is your light on a timer or schedule, I am guessing that it does not adversly effect your fry, headstanding, swarming the top, etc
Got through Day 2 with minimal deaths. The ammonia in the larvae tank was making the ammonia badge switch to the next color up so I changed out 1/4 of the water for new ASW. I think I may have added the water to quickly, I lost another 2 or 3 of the fry.

I believe that I may have 20 left, but that could be high they are difficult to count.
When should I add the sponge filter to the larval tank?
Or is it something that I should simply use in the grow out tank if I can get these guys through meta. The water changes are cubersome to say the least. They wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't so paranoid about straining out the rots. It is simply labor intensive to say the least.
As far as rots go I think these guys are out pacing the fry in the tank. I guess that is a good thing???? Feeding and determining how much to feed the rots is still elusive to me. I think I am going through rotifer diet waaaaay to quickly. I mean I am putting about 16 drops (twice a day) into 3 3 gallon cultures as well as the fry tank. I figured I would go through rotifers pretty quickly but alas I have not had to add any to the tank becuase of how fast they seem to multiply in there. Or maybe the fry aren't eating, who knows, it's really hard to tell if they are. I guess if they weren't eating by now they would be dead, right? I may scale back rotifer production for the next go around, and switch over to smaller clear containers. I cannot simply tell using buckets how much crud is building up and they are unsightly in the living room :lol: (says the wife).
In any case, like clockwork, the female laid another giant egg mass, (batch III), yesterday, which is good for me since that means I'll get a hatch on a Friday night and won't be a trainwreck at work the next morning. I tried the tile but it only seemed to irritate the clowns. In their effort to move it out of their breeding cave they both got a scratched up and I simply said, screw it! Pulled it out and within 10 minutes she had completely laid all her eggs. I am going to look into getting, or fabricating, a larvae snagger.
Trying to find an online store with the CPR snagger, anyone????
Thanks again for your assistance

--landlord