My Platinum clownfish have eggs 1st time!!!:)

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My little ones

My little ones

Again:)
 

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Great job! Mine just laid a couple days ago again. Batch number 3 an they lay every 11 days.

Just want to say thanks for all the information, it has truly made my experience that much easier! It's been a pain but well worth it.
 
I'm glad

I'm glad

HunterBryan said:
Great job! Mine just laid a couple days ago again. Batch number 3 an they lay every 11 days.

Just want to say thanks for all the information, it has truly made my experience that much easier! It's been a pain but well worth it.
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I glad that we help you !!

Don't dorget to post pic of your clown:)
 
I'll get a picture up tmrw! been super busy last couple of days.

But this afternoon I saw for the first time the baby clowns actually eating the rotifers!! They are also getting orange bellies and starting to bend their tails more frequently. Tmrw will be day 8 and was wondering when they actually tart going through meta and when to feed OTA A?
 
Babies Day 8

Babies Day 8

Here are some more crappy pics with my iphone!! Day 8 and they look like they are about to go through meta.

Once they go trough meta will they turn orange like over night?

Put some OTO A in and i saw a couple nibble at it!!:bounce3:
 

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Great!!!

Great!!!

HunterBryan said:
I have probably 50+ and I just put my 3rd batch in with it an they had about 200 but I was just going to see if I could keep them together!
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I don't see why not if yo can keep the ammonia down
I don't see why not:bounce1:

Post some pictures of your set up, and can you tell us what you did everyday with details for the like water temp.
Water changes.
Feeding.
Lights.
Avert thing that can help people that want to start doing this it will be great:)
 
ivan osornio said:
I don't see why not if yo can keep the ammonia down
I don't see why not:bounce1:

Post some pictures of your set up, and can you tell us what you did everyday with details for the like water temp.
Water changes.
Feeding.
Lights.
Avert thing that can help people that want to start doing this it will be great:)
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Equipment:
-10 gallon fry tank
-100w Heater (80-81 F)
-Air Pump (wal-mart)
-8 feet clear tube (wal-mart)
-2 air stones (from wal-mart) (one going fry tank and other going to bucket)
-5 gallon bucket for rotifers (filled about 4 gallons up)
- Round clip on lamp (Home-depot) with regular light bulb
- Coffee Filters (wal-mart) to pour rotifers in it and dip into fry tank.
-Rotifer Floss 8x8 (Reeds Nutrition)
-Black construction paper on all sides

Food:
-1 Million Rotifers (Reeds Nutrition) Dont harvest them until about the 3rd day so get them going way before eggs hatch I screwed up there and only had them the day before. Made it till about day 11 and ran out. I feed them 3 times a day dipping 2 coffee filters at each feeding. (6 coffee filters a day usually does it)
- RGComplete for rotifers (Reeds Nutrition) Squirt about 5 good squirts in there twice a day or until water gets a good Olive Color.
- TDO Chroma Boost "A" (Reeds Nutrition) I started this on day 10 and they pick at the surface at the food. I will feed them this for awhile with the few rotifers I have left.

Maintenance:
1) Pre-Hatch put 2 coffee filters of rotifers in tank, then I took the rock out of DT and placed in fry tank and turned off lights.
2) 1 hour later 3/4 of them hatched so i turned light on with 2 pieces of white paper covering the top so it was that much light to shock them. (kept light on for 3 days)
3) Day 3 Started doing water changes on fry and rotifers the same day. Took about 20% out while vacuuming the bottom of the fry tank. Same with rotifer bucket and I used the floss to wipe the side and bottom out.
4) I'm Doing step 3 everyday now.

Fry Tank: Day 11 so far and have around 50+ fry still :dance:
-1.026 salinity
-80-81 F
-Started around 4 gallons and I add a lil more every water change
-Blacked out on all sides with black construction paper

Rotifer Bucket:
-5 Gallon bucket but I only use 4 gallons
-Add RGComplete 2 times a day
-Clean it out daily and water change the same time I change fry tank water
-NO heater for me just room temp (72F)

Water Changes:
-I do 20% daily after the 3rd day.
-Wipe sides and bottom of fry and bucket with floss.
-Vacuum the stuff off bottom and floating
-I used new salt water at a salinity of 1.017 to start rotifer culture and added my DT water to it when doing water change ( I know it brought up the salinity but it was alright)
- Used DT water to start fry tank water
-I change out 8 gallons a week in my DT and I use that left over water that comes out of my DT to use during water changes to my fry and rotifer bucket.

:jester: Thats about it any questions please fell free to ask.
 

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Don't rely on that air pump, at the very least get a backup.

I had the exact same one and it crapped out on me when I needed it the most.

I love this thread and continue to look forward to updates. Good job.
 
MAVX said:
Don't rely on that air pump, at the very least get a backup.

I had the exact same one and it crapped out on me when I needed it the most.

I love this thread and continue to look forward to updates. Good job.
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Thanks for the heads! So far so good but I will get a back up in case
 
Baby clowns love the nems I did that with mine when they where about 3 months old one took to it right away while the others took a little while but they all ganged up on the poor little nem needless to say the nem did not last. Now they are 8 months old and I put another larger nem in there with them for the ones that I have left and they are all loving it.
By the way great thread keep it up.. Post pictures we all love pictures and vids too..
 
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