My tries at raising maroon clownfish

[mako56]

Thanks jnowell. Glad to here you got your phyto thing figured out. Someday I will try that too the instant algae works fine but it is a bit expensive. It would be nice to have some frozen just in case though. So far at day 11 no deaths kinda weird but only lost about ten all together so far but I only caught about 75 I guess. They move way to fast to count or take pics but I got a couple here.


Some looking to start scraping again just like kids. :lol:

And one by the fitting to see how small they are/

 

[Kathy55g]

Looking good!

 

[jnowell]

That's awesome Mike! They do look really good, it's all up hill from here.......now if I could just take pics like yours

Jason

 

[mako56]

Didn't fair as well today lost about three and have a few more looking hungry. Must be that they all don't like the dry food put in a few more rots seeing none of my shrimp eggs hatched will have to get some for my next try. Otherwise most of them have full little round bellies almost looks like they could explode. Its all in the camera I just snap Jason.

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Mike,

I have to admitt I am totally down now. Altough I feed super selco enriched rots mine are not at all changing size and color the same speed as yours. I have no clue what I do wrong?

How big is your larvae tank?
What do you use for enrichment?
Do you skim the larvae tank?

I am glad to see that yours make it that good and admire these pics but it is really disappointing me

 

[mako56]

Hey Pete don't feel to bad I ain't there yet either. My tank is a cheepy ten gallon cost me like $9.50. I think I have the L strain rots what ever that means and I have been feeding them with Instant Algae because I didn't figure out the phyto thing yet. but I put some rots in the tank with the babies and added some Instant Algae also to keep the rots fed and it seemed to work. No skimmer I just put in a sponge filter the other day but that isn't really doing much yet. This is my fourth try but my first really good one where I have been taught by the people here and I found a pal with the clownfish book so most of what I did was right. The next hard thing I see is the switch from rots to dry food. I don't have brine shrimp this time so I guess we will see how this works.

 

[mako56]

Hey folks got another update here I think I got it 17 Days and still over fifty left I have one or two die once in a while and it looks like they are not eating they have shunkin bellies. Just caught some more last night must of missed the big hatch cause I only caught about 25. I did catch some of those crab babies to so we will see what happens to them. Hers a couple pics.

And heres part of the gang.

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Great Mike!

I only one left from Jan- 24th has since two days the coloration yours did show after day 11

But I keep on going also this fish will never be "normal" I want to learn with it. The fish will probably end up as food for my sepia babies.

Next huge batch ready for hatching in the next days, but I have travels comming up and will be out for almost 2 weeks. So I dont try to raise them

 

[jnowell]

That's incredible Mike, way to go! You have made me decide that when I get ready to sell my babies, all the money is going towards a digital SLR! Still can't get over your pics.

Mine didn't hatch tonight, so I guess I have to wait..I'm too excited!

 

[MalawianDude]

taggin

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

My tow fish are nice an have coloration now, so bigest trouble seems to be over. I made the mistake to put them together they started fighting and I had to split again.

What surpirsed me is that they have white bars?? Does one know when they get the golden coloration as papa has:

 

[Dman]

MIke,
Looking great.
Bump up the air, once they get past meta they can handle the water flow and need the extra O2. I noticed a HUGE difference in their energy levels when I turned 'er up.
Peter,
I noticed that mine take as much as 10-12 months and as little as 8 months to start showing noticable yellow colouration

 

[Kathy55g]

good advice. I think it really helped with my bunch.

 

[Dman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6793892#post6793892 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kathy55g
good advice. I think it really helped with my bunch.

Ya, seriously.
I had no idea how much until I experimented (less experiment and more "let's try this"). The results were night and day.
I'll post a pic of one of my batches later on.

 

[mako56]

Ya Dman I did turn it up and added the sponge filter but I think I could add another air stone or maybe a bar. The do have plenty of energy that's why you don't see any pics can't get them to sit still long enough. :lol: Still have fifty or so left after they got used to eating the dry food haven't had any more deaths. Thinking about catching the next batch should be like Thursday or Friday. The last batch I caught lost the brand new heater I got and its replacement also must of been a bad batch of heaters or something any ways the temp was like 72 for a long time but there still are a dozen or so left in there. Got a different brand heater this time. Thanks for the advice.

 

[Kathy55g]

please tell us which brands so we can avoid them.....

 

[Dman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6797031#post6797031 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kathy55g
please tell us which brands so we can avoid them.....

Please do, but you might want to be careful here.

 

[r00onmac]

if were talking heaters for a second (not to get off topic) i have found the visi-therm stealth heaters to keep temps with less than a 1 degree swing either way consistantly... visi-therm has other models, but the stealth models seem to work the best... seems to be because of the aluminum tube inside shatterproof plastic instead of glass...

 

[Kathy55g]

Not only that, but they are black plastic, so no light to attract the larvae. And one can turn the knob and know that you have done that because there is a dial and a scale on them. I love them although I have heard that they sometimes don't work. I have not had that experience with the two 100W ones that I own.

 

[Atticus]

I have good luck with Tronic heaters.