My tries at raising maroon clownfish

[Dman]

Mako56
Through REED MARICULTURE. It comes graded by size and has taken a pile of hassles off my hands if you have multiple batches on the go.
Dman

 

[spk]

Ok,

Folks what the hell is CE? I am confused and thick this morning.

Thanks

Steve

 

[Dman]

CE = Cyclop-eeze
HTH

 

[mako56]

I am thinking of trying some of that stuff Dman. But $58.00 that is allot of stuff I would guess. Does it last a long time? Can you freeze it or something? I don't have any brine shrimp unless you count the thousands that are all over my main tank. Which brings me to another question Last night I was just making sure that my eggs didn't hatch unexpectedly on me and found this in the tank any one have any ideas?

Tonight is the night capture material, water and rots ready I also bummed the clownfish book from a local club member so I got some reading to do. Pretty interesting things about maroon Clowns sounds like I got pretty lucky.

 

[mako56]

I got a half hatch again last night. Broke my home made tank just before it happened had to put the babies in a pail until I could get to the store and get a new tank. No more iffy home made tanks. The ten gallon was only ten bucks how could you go wrong. Waiting for the second batch to hatch must of got around 75 last night.

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

I lost mine almost completly only a few left. No idea why ???

Next batch will hatch at the weekend.

 

[mako56]

Bummer Pete, the secret is to figure out why so we don't do that next time. Tonights hatch is being screwed up with a cleaner shrimp hatch there are thousands of them I can't hardly see the fish. Not to many so far anyways so I turned the pumps back on might clear some of them out.

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Mike,

I believe my water parameter went bad as I could not let them swim in green water. I for had enough rots, but did I feed enough too ... rather to much ...

 

[Luis A M]

[i Which brings me to another question Last night I was just making sure that my eggs didn't hatch unexpectedly on me and found this in the tank any one have any ideas?

[/B]

It is a crab larva.Do you keep some hermits there?

 

[mako56]

Yep I have three different kinds of hermits, a couple Sally Lightfoots and a couple Emerald crabs. Thats kinda wild thanks allot Luis A M.

 

[mako56]

Well day # 4 and only lost about 10 of the half batch that hatched. Must be around 50 - 75 I would guess. I think I screwed up the hatch with to bright of a flashlight or turning the pumps off to early or maybe they just weren't going to hatch. I checked after there were no more babies coming and the old man was up in the anemone and not talking care of the eggs any more. The next night I only got about another ten and they quit again. Then they became fish food I think because I went to bed like 5:00 AM and there were still eggs but they were all gone when I got up.

 

[DebsSisterFlo]

I'm gonna see babies! I'm gonna see babies!!!

 

[dpieroni]

transfering the babies

transfering the babies

Hey MIke , which method do you use to cacht the babies in the main tank and trasfering it to the larval tank?
It is very dificult to get the larvae, they swim a lot and react to my presence.
They are tomato larvaes and I am using rotifers, but I do not know what happen but the larvae do not live after 1 day.
I was not using a tank with the sides in black.
And reading this forum I see that my larvae are quiet besides the walls of the tank so I can imagine that this is not correct...
I wll try the next time to have a white botton and the walls in black.
When do you feed with rotifers for the first time?
ow many rotifers do you feed?
thanks
diego

 

[mako56]

Hey Diego nice to meet ya. Don't get the idea that I know anything about this :lol: but I am learning. we can learn together lots of knowledgeable people stop in here to post good advice. What I do because I can't get my stubborn clown to lay on a tile is I watch the night they should hatch and when I start seeing the babies I put a small night light up in the corner of the tank away from where the eggs are so the light doesn't shine on the hatching. Then I turn my pumps off so far I have been using a one cup measuring cup and try to catch as many as I can like that then I got this pipet thing with my first rot kit and I put a piece of air line tube on that. I stick the air tube in my mouth to control the suction and I catch most of them like that but it is very time consuming. I am sure there is a better way but haven;t found it yet. I covered the outside of the tank with black plastic like landscapers use ( I used to do that at one time too) the bottom just sits on some white paper toweling. This is my first time with rots but what I did is the day after the hatch I just scooped some up and dumped them in the book says the babies shouldn't have to swim more than one length to get a rot. Mine was more like a half of a length I am using Instant Alae right now so I have been putting a little of that in to feed the rots to and so far I haven't had to add any more they must be multiplying in the tank. So far its working don't take all of this info to heart because I am still trying never had any babies grow up yet.

 

[Kathy55g]

Mike,
Hi, are you filtering out the old rotifer water before you add the rots to the baby clownfish tank? You want to get rid of the water the rots have been growing in.

I do the filter thing, and then I let the concentrated rots sit in a bowl of phyto for a 20-30 mins. They eat fast and fill up with phyto, then I filter them out of that soup and feed the rots to the larvae. I just rinse them off the screen with a little larvae tank water, and then pour them in gently. Then add live greenwater to tint the larvae tank green or make it a little cloudy.

I have found, like you, that the larvae tank does not need too many more additions as the rots like the larvae tank conditions and multiply faster than the larvae can eat them. But watch out if you get a really big number of clownfish larvae that hatch. They may be able to consume the rot population faster.

 

[mako56]

Hey Kathy, I feed the rots good then I took about 2 cups of the rots and water and poured them through the little screen thing they sent with that first kit I bought which probably gave me to many but I just emptied the screen in the tank. I put a little Instant Algae in every day and they must be multiplying in there because I haven;t added any more and it doesn't;t look like any are gone. I will try and take some pics today they look allot bigger and more colorful than they ever did before and no deaths today yet. Knock on wood. I got rots coming out my ears now I strain loads of them to feed my corals and they seem happier now too.

 

[dpieroni]

night light

night light

how is the night light are you using? what color?
is a generic incandecent light?
thanks
diego

 

[Kathy55g]

Great news, Mike! Go clean your ears....

 

[mako56]

Yep dpieroni just a regular old (looks like a candle) night light. But I ain't sure its not too bright.


Well going for the record here. Done with day six and no deaths today still over fifty I would say. Some day six pics.

 

[Kathy55g]

congrats, Mike! got decapsulated brine shrimp eggs going? You are almost there! This could be the big one for you! May the force be with you!