Last Hatch before Italy!

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Kathy55g

In Memoriam
We are all going to Italy end of March, so this is the last hatch that, if it survives my bumbling attempts to raise it, will be old enough to be securely on flake food before I leave.

Picked up the eggs this evening, and had the tank ready from last night. Not as many eggs as I usually get, but they will do.

One of the eggs fell off, as one did last time, and I got some video through the microscope of the two chamber heart beating and a bit of a squirm. Put that egg back into the tank, but there is not much hope for it. After i do some editing out of the boring parts, I'll send the clip to jnowell and ask him to post it.

Last time I did not peek, and I got a good hatch, so I will not peek this time either. I'll just have to wait to find out if they are hatching on schedule! 5:30 comes early, so I'm going to bed soon.

Cheers,
Kathy
 
GOOD HATCH!
Rots and greenwater. Looks like they are eating this time!

Still some eggs left, so I put them in their own tank for hatching tonight if they want to.

Fingers crossed.

:D
 
Thanks, Nicole,
I had a new phenomenon this morning. I added rotifers, nice and plump green bellied ones, to my new hatch. Half hour later, I went back to count the rots in the tank to see if there were enough, and I couldn't find any in the sample I took. So I added some more, and half hour later, I still couldn't find any. Hmm. I looked into the tank water and there was a green area towards the center of the tank, on the floor of it. I took a sample and looked under the scope. Happy, greenbellied, active rotifers. Tons of them.

For some reason, my rots sunk to the bottom and stayed in a pile there. I gently dispersed them with a plastic transfer pipet, and they went all over, as they should. Plenty of rots, and silver bellied larvae after only a couple of hours of eating. (Such a difference from the Chemi-clean treated larvae who never really ate at all and were all eyes and tail with no stomach after 3 days, the ones that lived that long).

Anybody seen that before? Any reason they did not disperse?
 
I am thinking that it was due to a difference in salinity between the rot tank and the larvae tank. I unknowingly let the rots get to 35 ppt, the larvae are at 30.

All larvae that look alive have silver bellies. The dead ones look to have silver bellies, too. In fact they look exhausted from eating so much. I have a lot of bottom dwellers, I think, because that's where the rots are. Hard to tell the dead ones from the live ones, cause they are still for a while, then suddenly move. If they don't suffocate on the bottom by morning, it should be a good batch.

The rest of the eggs are in a seperate tank to see if they will hatch. I moved the tile there. It's an experiment....I've always had some viable looking eggs leftover on the tile after a hatch, and I've never been able to hatch the rest of the eggs in the tank with the swimming larvae, rots, and greenwater. Perhaps a clean new tank of their own will work.
 
Just heard from one of the local fish store workers that their display tank houses a skunk pair that laid eggs last Thursday. Really tempted to snag the larvae next week....we'll see.
 
Kathy,

good luck with this lot. Sounds as if they are on to a good start.

Now..... Where in Italy are you heading?

Steve
 
I stopped in a LFS today to get some Formula-2 frozen, and started talking to the manager about the babies. "Yeah," he said, "some guy brought in some tank raised clowns and they did really good!"

I displayed great restraint and did not say, "Well, DUH!" Instead, a said something casual about how TR fish alsways did good.

"If you raise a lot of clowns, let me know and we'll start carrying some tank raised fish."

I need a basement! Or at least a garage that isn't a football field away from the house or has electricity!
 
P.S. I hope to have the clowns sold by my trip to Scotland in the spring. It does help to get a cat/dog/fish baby sitter if you have a reasonable amount of work to day every day.
 
Yup, I plan to have a sitter and a backup and a backup. I also plan they will be all on flake so no one has to culture/hatch food.

Going to Milan, Florence, Pompei, Venice, and Rome. We are going with my son's Latin class. Lots of kids and some fun parents, and all four of us. I am really looking forward to it.

Back to the fish. Only 16 dead this morning. The live ones look very good. Fat and active. Just the way we like them.

Cheers,
Kathy
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6668291#post6668291 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NicoleC
I stopped in a LFS today to get some Formula-2 frozen, and started talking to the manager about the babies. "Yeah," he said, "some guy brought in some tank raised clowns and they did really good!"

I displayed great restraint and did not say, "Well, DUH!" Instead, a said something casual about how TR fish alsways did good.

"If you raise a lot of clowns, let me know and we'll start carrying some tank raised fish."

I need a basement! Or at least a garage that isn't a football field away from the house or has electricity!
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Yes, you need a basement, cause you have it bad, too.

My adult clowns do not like formula 2. They will swim through a cloud of formula 2 to get at a rogue chunk of formula 1. They will only eat formula 2 if they are really hungry and it is the only thing I am feeding. My coral beauty, however, will eat it no problem.

I have received nice offers from the local stores around here. Haven't nailed down a price yet for some of them, but the interest is there. So far, i have enough local interest from individuals that I haven't sold any to a store yet, but I am actually looking forward to it. When you sell to an individual, they still consult you about how it is doing, long after the sale, which can be nice when things go well, and saddening when they do not. Perhaps it would be better not to know.
 
Can't afford a place with a spare bedroom, either. ;) This is So Cal. They are putting up these nice new condos along my ride to work. 500 sq ft studios are over $400,000.

But it's also a lovely 76F outside. Who knew nice weather was so expensive?
 
Places go up for sale every now and then in my complex. I keep waiting for one of the 2 bedroom outside units that have a semi-attached garage to go up for sale, but the folks that have those units know it's a premium property for the price, and they aren't budging.
 
thats what you get for insisting on living closer than 15 miles from work so that the commute is only 3 hours long :D
 
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