My tries at raising maroon clownfish
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Wow!
Great info and pics. I currently have a mating pair of clowns and actually missed the first hatch becuase I fell asleep. My clowns spawned for the second time on XMAS...I have my rots and green water brewing right now.
Long live Nemo....
I wonder why you are loosing so many? I'm sure I will not be able to keep one alive now.. Does the water go bad quickly as you feed them? How are you changing the water in the tank?
Great info and pics. I currently have a mating pair of clowns and actually missed the first hatch becuase I fell asleep. My clowns spawned for the second time on XMAS...I have my rots and green water brewing right now.
Long live Nemo....
I wonder why you are loosing so many? I'm sure I will not be able to keep one alive now.. Does the water go bad quickly as you feed them? How are you changing the water in the tank?
mako56
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Nemo didn't make it. Mtraylor I am doing allot of things wrong I think. I did change some water but maybe not enough. I don't really know if I have rots I have allot of something but untill I get my new microscope I can't be sure. One thing for sure the little net thing that they sent with the kit would not catch what I have the mesh is way to big. I was just dumping some of the water from the jugs into the tank that is problably a bad thing too. It is cool to try and I don't like the failure even my wife feels bad. But we will try again on new years eve do some things a little different and see what happens. I don't have green water I have been using the food I got in the kit not really sure if thats good either. Just way to many experiments going on at one time I guess. Good luck on your efforts.
Oh no... Sorry to hear that...
I felt real bad when I went to bed and lost all the eggs that I was ooh so waiting on... WEll I got my kit from Florida Aqua Farms... They are very nice and very knowledgable...Great customer service. I got some net thinging to capture the rotifers in, its a green cylinder with a net in the bottom...but I dont know how well this works yet...I will know soon and tell you. They informed me to never pour from the water the rotifers are in because its too dirty and will kill the fish..
They wrote a book on raising clown fish and there is another book i"m going to go look for this evening called "CLOWNFISHES by Joyce Wilkerson". I have been doing allot of reading trying to get ready for these clown fishes and your documentary is great. Allot of things I wanted to try, you have been there and done that. Keep up the good work.
I felt real bad when I went to bed and lost all the eggs that I was ooh so waiting on... WEll I got my kit from Florida Aqua Farms... They are very nice and very knowledgable...Great customer service. I got some net thinging to capture the rotifers in, its a green cylinder with a net in the bottom...but I dont know how well this works yet...I will know soon and tell you. They informed me to never pour from the water the rotifers are in because its too dirty and will kill the fish..
They wrote a book on raising clown fish and there is another book i"m going to go look for this evening called "CLOWNFISHES by Joyce Wilkerson". I have been doing allot of reading trying to get ready for these clown fishes and your documentary is great. Allot of things I wanted to try, you have been there and done that. Keep up the good work.
jnowell
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Joyce's book is great. I also highly recommend Kmleah's greenwater method. Now that she helped me, my greenwater is thriving. I'm at day 10 with my first hatch, 25+ still kicking. I just switched to baby brine shrimp, so I think most of the hard stuff is over.
I'm new to this also, so feel free to learn from my mistakes in my thread too, "Clarkii Rearing (No Rotifers)". I dropped the "no rotifer" part after hearing the survival rates from dry food. My next hatch will probably happen tomorrow night, and since I have good cultures of greenwater and rotifers, I'm going to try for two batchs at once.
Good luck!
Jason
I'm new to this also, so feel free to learn from my mistakes in my thread too, "Clarkii Rearing (No Rotifers)". I dropped the "no rotifer" part after hearing the survival rates from dry food. My next hatch will probably happen tomorrow night, and since I have good cultures of greenwater and rotifers, I'm going to try for two batchs at once.
Good luck!
Jason
jnowell
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Oops, sorry Edgar 
I pay particular attention to his posts too Kathy, you just beat him to the punch with the phyto plan. I'll be happy when I've got more years under my belt so I can be informative (rather than an information sponge).
Soooo, thanks Ediaz, it works wonderfully!
Jason
I pay particular attention to his posts too Kathy, you just beat him to the punch with the phyto plan. I'll be happy when I've got more years under my belt so I can be informative (rather than an information sponge).Soooo, thanks Ediaz, it works wonderfully!
Jason
mako56
Premium Member
I caught another fifty or so last night. Wierd thing all the eggs didn't hatch I looked tonight when I got home and there are still a few left. Maybe I will get some more but I don't have any rots to feed them anyways so its still the dry food test I guess. I did oder some instant algae boy is that stuff strange kinda like green oil. I froze most of it they say it will last a long long time that way and I ordered one of those collection cups and some more rot cysts so I should be ready for the next time. Mine are on a eleven day cycle. I can use this instant algae to start green water cultures if I want to too can't I?
Unfortunately, instant algae is not alive. You can enrich the rots with it, grow the rots with it, use it in the larval tank to keep the rots nutritious, but....
The great advantage of live phyto is that when you add it to the larval tank, it doesn't die until it's consumed by the rots, so it keeps the rots nutritious, and helps the larvae find food like instant algae, but the difference is that it doesn't rot and foul the water, and it
helps to absorb ammonia!!!!!!
I've been using instant algae to grow and enrich the rots, but keeping a culture of phyto alive in addition to add to the larval tank.
Unfortunately, you cannot grow a culture from instant algae. It's dead. I've heard that it is very difficult to culture even DT's anymore. Best to find a friend with a live culture or order some. Then culture your own.
Good luck with those eggs, Mike! They will probably hatch tonight! Happy New Year!
The great advantage of live phyto is that when you add it to the larval tank, it doesn't die until it's consumed by the rots, so it keeps the rots nutritious, and helps the larvae find food like instant algae, but the difference is that it doesn't rot and foul the water, and it
helps to absorb ammonia!!!!!!
I've been using instant algae to grow and enrich the rots, but keeping a culture of phyto alive in addition to add to the larval tank.
Unfortunately, you cannot grow a culture from instant algae. It's dead. I've heard that it is very difficult to culture even DT's anymore. Best to find a friend with a live culture or order some. Then culture your own.
Good luck with those eggs, Mike! They will probably hatch tonight! Happy New Year!
jnowell
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Gee Mike, that sounds just like my rearing attempts.
Good luck with this hatch, and keep those pictures coming, they are incredible (I was a photo major in college, and your photos impress me). I'd kill for a digital SLR, my Nikon point and shoot isn't getting the job done.With such beautiful parents, I bet the post-larval baby pics will be awesome. Only a matter of time...and work....and then more work....and...
Cheers, I be looking forward to the updates.
Jason
mako56
Premium Member
Well thanks allot jnowell the camera must do it all by it self cause I don't know what I am doing.:lol: :lol: The Canon 20-D with the 100 macro lens is pretty cool though just can't wait until I learn more about it. I have one cool pic I took of the ma and pa with there eggs not sure if I posted that one or not but that one was taken with the 17-85 lens that came with the camera. I got all this instant algea now so I will use it for a while and see what happens. But like I said might as well do it right just need to find some more room.:eek1:
jnowell
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I usually just use ambient room light (no top on the tank) for the first two or three days, then I put one 15w light in the hood and see how they react (watch the temp too after adding the light). Most of the time, they stay towards the top, which is good. If they all go to the bottom, or shy away from the light, then I raise it up until it suits them. I use a 16-8 light cycle.
