Suddenly eggs

[Tomoko Schum]

Wow, those are great pictures!!

You must have a camera with a very fast shutter speed.

So, the 7 day old baby in your picture looks clear and not orange

I can see a very faint stripes on the day 7 baby already.
It also has the chubby shape.

My fry are 5-1/2 days old now but still have a baby guppy shape.

Here's a picture of four day old babies of someone on RC. Another person had pictures of day 1 babies in the same color. They look very pale orange to me.

My babies are getting bigger. So are the uneaten brine shrimp from a couple of days ago. I am still adding rotifers and a small amount of bbs as well as three kinds of phytoplankton. The water looks foggy due to phyto and makes counting somewhat difficult, but I see 9 of them.

Tomoko

 

[NicoleC]

The day 10 pic was taken by a pro. The other photos are with my several year old Panasonic Lumix. Not particularly fast, but a very good camera with great glass. And if you take enough pictures of the little guys zooming around, some are bound to be in focus.

 

[kiran523]

In any case, excellent pics Nicole

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Batch No. 2

They just laid them today

Tomoko

 

[NicoleC]

Oh, it's neverending now, Tomoko.

You should be here at MACNA. There was a great presentation by a Matthew Wittenrich on larval conditions and other fish breeding topics, and I picked his brain for lots of stuff over cocktails.

Remind me to talk to you about temperature and larval development as well as some circulation stuff.

 

[mltmtascp]

That cool. Very nice pic. How are the other babies.

Monica

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Other babies are doing well. They are in the middle of meta phase and living on the bottom now instead of swimming around in the water column.

Tomoko

 

[Tomoko Schum]

I got one with a clear head band It also has a second strip but it's hard to see.

This one is back up in the water column. The others are still down on the bottom. I have one runt that has not gone through metamorphosis. It's still swimming around looking like a guppy baby with a big head.

I have nine babies all together. I can count them easily now They are bigger and only two are swimming fast. Those in the meta phase lay around on the bottom. They don't move much. Just twitching their tails here and there.

Tomoko

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Correction.
I still have all eleven babies and two with headbands are swimming near the top of the container now

Tomoko

 

[mltmtascp]

Congratulations! That is great. I knew you could raise babies.
Very nice pic!

Monica

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Thank you, Monica.

Keeping the batch small is the trick. When you have a high number of tiny fry, some will succumb to declining water quality and die. Then the chain reaction starts.

Doing water changes for this batch has been very easy since the parent's tank is my 120 reef (the high quality water available any time . )

Tomoko

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Here's another pic of the new eggs (3 days old). It's getting a little darker and elongated.

Tomoko

 

[Tomoko Schum]

4 days old eggs:

11 days old babies:




Tomoko

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Day 5 eggs. Eyes are more defined:

Tomoko

 

[8BALL_99]

lol wow that video is pretty cool.. So tiny!

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Thanks, Will.

Yep, the fry are very small. They range probably from 5 mm to 7 mm.

Tomoko

 

[ash71089]

thats exciting.. what kind of clownfish do you have?

 

[Tomoko Schum]

My clownfish is supposed to be A. percula, but I don't really know how to tell percula from ocellaris to be honest. A lot of people say that percula has wider dark bands, but I heard that it's almost impossible to tell some of them apart without counting dorsal rays.

Tomoko

 

[NicoleC]

The easiest way to tell percula from ocellaris is the eye ring. It looks murky on an ocellaris, but is clear and bright on a percula.

You could have one of each.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Can you tell from this picture of their mom?

Tomoko