Suddenly eggs

Thanks, Kiran.
If this batch does not make it, I may try to save some from the next one. I need to make a fry collecting contraption (a larvae snagger) to catch the little guys more easily.

Tomoko
 
Easier than snagging fry, IMO, was getting the clowns to switch to laying on a tile, and then just removing the tile the evening before hatch and keeping it aerated. Just switch tiles with a clean one.
 
Thank you for the vote of confidence, Monica.

Well, I just want to raise a dozen or two. If I manage to stay awake and catch them at the right timing, scooping with a cup may do just the trick after all. I just don't want to deal with 400 fry at a time (and the daily water change hell.)

Tonight all of the little guys have silver bellies (stuffed with rotifers.) :)

Tomoko
 
So far so good. I have not lost any baby yet.

I was afraid that they may eat themselves to death (I hear that this can happen) since my one gallon jar has so much rotifers in it. The water was too green to even see the babies really well. Now that green water cleared some, I can see the babies and the bottom of the jar, too.

The water temp is right around 80. I have not measured its ammonia level yet, but I suspect that live phyto is keeping it down so far. I also used the jar that rotifers were living in for many weeks to take advantage of the nitrifying bacteria that were living on the jar (I simply moved my rotifers in the jar to another jar.)

Babies are swimming really well against the gentle current that is created by air bubbles :)

Tomoko
 
My still pictures are too blurry, but I managed to take an okay video of it. You can see the babies eating rotifers in this video:



Tomoko
 
Thank you, stephish and Monica :) I hope that I can raise them all to adulthood, but there are always some casualties along the way. we shall see...

Tomoko
 
Thank you, wareagle and Mariner :)

Although everything looked okay, I measured the ammonia level of the fry tank last night. It was already up to 2 - 3 ppm :eeks2: I did 50% water change using the water from my 120 (the parent's tank.) Babies seemed oblivious to the water change, but I was a nervous wreck.

Here's another video of my baby clownfish. Since the babies are almost 4 days old, I gave some brine shrimp along with rotifers to see if they even try to eat some. You can see the big tummy on the little guy in the video.



The baby looks rather strange up close, doesn't it? It's got a really big head and a big mouth as compared to the rest of its body. It kind of reminds me of a strange looking deep-sea fish.

Tomoko
 
yes, they are still all alive :)

I am wondering why my fry are not orange colored. I see other people's fry faintly orange colored from the start.

Tomoko
 
I have seen some pictures of just hatched clownfish larvae and they looked faintly orange colored. Mine looked whitish from the side when hatched, but dark from the top. No hint of orange whatsoever. When they go through metamorphosis, they turn nice bright orange with a white stripe. I think it's somewhere around day 7 through 14. I just have to wait, I guess.

Tomoko
 
Looking at my old photos, I don't see any real orange until day 9.

Day 7:
day7side.jpg


Day 9:
day9side.jpg


Day 10:
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