My attempt at breeding black clowns (in a 28 gallon mixed reef)

[gotfrogs]

OK, OK, OK, here is a new picture for you.

Yep, I found more eggs today. It looks like there are fewer of them than last time, that or the anemone is hiding most of them.

 

[rkelman]

FINALLY cool more eggs! Now if they would just lay on that tile.. Are they laying in the same spot each time? If they are put the tile over that spot after these ones hatch.

 

[gotfrogs]

Yes, the eggs are in the same place as last time and not on the tile =(
I am going to have a hard time covering their spot but will give it a try next time around.

 

[gotfrogs]

Just a little off topic, but hey, it is my thread; my dart frogs laid their first egg! Or at least they laid the first one that I found =)

One of the parents

The single egg

Now why couldn't they have laid over a 100 of them like my clowns!

 

[rkelman]

Cool.. Dart frogs.. Don't lick them..

 

[Tahoe Reefer]

This is a great thread. Grats on the first batch, you're doing great.

 

[mnash]

Cool frogs! The first batch of clown eggs in my tank hatched last night. I am not set up for the fry yet so I did not try to collect them. I just added the tile and a vortech mp40 to the tank. I hope these additions will not disrupt the love makin' that has been going on in my tank.

 

[Isernhagen]

Clint, how did you catch the fry? Did you concentrate them with a penlight and scoop them up? Looks like you got quite a few of them in the bucket. Rick

 

[gotfrogs]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15398687#post15398687 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Isernhagen
Clint, how did you catch the fry? Did you concentrate them with a penlight and scoop them up? Looks like you got quite a few of them in the bucket. Rick

Yes, I used a mag penlight to attract the up to the surface. It did not work as well as I expected. It took me 45 minutes of scooping them up 1 or 2 at a time with a small plastic cup.

I got a PM from someone asking where I got the parents from.

I did not purchase them as a pair. I bought two ORA black clowns from a LFS. They both got brook disease and one of them died. I few weeks later I found a large female a LFS that a customer had returned because she was picking on all of their other fish. I have had them together for a year now.

 

[gotfrogs]

Here is a picture from today. I think we are on day 32?

 

[mako56]

Very cool they are lookin good.

I found this on here when I did this and it was a great help. All you need is a small pump, an old soda bottle, some kind of plastic storage container, a hose, and an old nylon stocking.

The nylon is missing.

I cut the hole in the container and lined it with a split air tube so not to hurt the little ones going across the cut edge. I don't know if this was needed but it made me feel better. Can't remember why the black tape is on there but I am sure there was a reason. :hmm4:

Here it is put together kind of. You need to cut some big slots into the soda bottle and cut the end off then stick the pump into it and cover the soda bottle and pump with the nylon. I stuck the tube into my over flow but anywhere away from the catch hole would be fine I guess. Now that I think about it if a person just got a syphon going and put it into your sump that might work as good as the pump (maybe an upgrade). Then you just position your penlight around the catch hole and let it go.

There is a little trick to getting this to float at the right depth so its a good idea to try it out before you really need it but it saved me from sitting there for an hour or more trying to catch the little guys.

 

[gotfrogs]

mako56 - thanks for the info but hopefully I can get them to lay on the tile next time. The second batch of eggs should hatch tonight at 10:30. I am off to have a margarita first! Should help me with the collection process.

 

[iggygrl76]

Oh thats so cool! I use to have dart frogs as well I had some green and black and some blue and yellow names escaping me I also use to have red eye tree frogs, whites tree frogs, some teeny lil yellow rainforest frogs and some orange mantellas...man I miss those guys as well as my chameleons I had one of the most handsome veileds I have ever seen...he was so funny.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15380805#post15380805 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gotfrogs
Just a little off topic, but hey, it is my thread; my dart frogs laid their first egg! Or at least they laid the first one that I found =)

 

[gotfrogs]

The second batch hatched right on time tonight. I think I collected about 150 babies. I will count them in the photo I took tomorrow.

 

[rkelman]

good luck with them!

 

[gotfrogs]

Thanks! I counted bout 130 in the photo that I took last night but some could have been under the heater and not counted. I had 35 die in the first ~22 hours which is about the same as I had in the 1st batch. Hopefully the losses will taper out.

 

[CoralKingdom]

Very cool gotfrogs! I was thinking of breeding clowns also. I got a question though. What is a "seeded" sponge?

 

[gotfrogs]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15451108#post15451108 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CoralKingdom
Very cool gotfrogs! I was thinking of breeding clowns also. I got a question though. What is a "seeded" sponge?

A seeded sponge is a sponge that is left in an established aquarium to allow nitrifying bacteria to start colonizing on it.

 

[CoralKingdom]

How long is a good time to leave it in the aquarium?

 

[gotfrogs]

I would say two weeks+ but that is a total guess. The longer the better.