buzzbait00
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I've had a mated pair for bout a year now and have not noticed any eggs/fry.Maybe Im just missing it!Any signs in preticular I should be looking for?
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Ash71089,
I have not used the tile method mainly because I don't want to raise all 700 to 800 eggs. If I have them in my hatch out tank, I know I will try to raise them all. I used to raise FW angelfish that way successfully for a few years, but right now I just want to raise a few clownfish for a little while for fun. It would be a big job (and not fun) to try to raise so many clownfish.
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If you have not found any eggs near their host, your clownfish may not be laying them yet. My clownfish have been in my tank for more than three and a half years.
If your male clownfish stopped coming out for feeding from its usual hang out, that may be a sign that he is up to something - like protecting eggs.
Tomoko
I have not used the tile method mainly because I don't want to raise all 700 to 800 eggs. If I have them in my hatch out tank, I know I will try to raise them all. I used to raise FW angelfish that way successfully for a few years, but right now I just want to raise a few clownfish for a little while for fun. It would be a big job (and not fun) to try to raise so many clownfish.
Buzz -
If you have not found any eggs near their host, your clownfish may not be laying them yet. My clownfish have been in my tank for more than three and a half years.
If your male clownfish stopped coming out for feeding from its usual hang out, that may be a sign that he is up to something - like protecting eggs.
Tomoko
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Thank you, Nicole and WAR.
Both fish were sold to me as percula (one from CRA and another from Aquatic Critters), but I am happy either way.
Although you cannot see the frogspawn in these pictures very well, it is huge with many branches and heads. It beats on other corals around it
Tomoko
Both fish were sold to me as percula (one from CRA and another from Aquatic Critters), but I am happy either way.
Although you cannot see the frogspawn in these pictures very well, it is huge with many branches and heads. It beats on other corals around it
Tomoko
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Day 6 eggs:
The picture looks like the very 1st one I posted in this thread. I suspect that they will hatch tomorrow night especially if they turn silverish. I have to stay up and watch the tank light goes off if I want to see them come up in high numbers. That will be a very pretty sight
By the way, I took some more mug shots of my fish. I don't know if you can tell from these pictures, but I am going to post them anyway.
The whole body without flash:
Tomoko
The picture looks like the very 1st one I posted in this thread. I suspect that they will hatch tomorrow night especially if they turn silverish. I have to stay up and watch the tank light goes off if I want to see them come up in high numbers. That will be a very pretty sight
By the way, I took some more mug shots of my fish. I don't know if you can tell from these pictures, but I am going to post them anyway.
The whole body without flash:
Tomoko
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Thank you, Nicole. I thought they may be ocellaris, too, since their babies developed both stripes quickly. I understand that percula often takes a long time to develop the second stripe.
I cannot really tell the difference between the two and they both look very cute to me. I don't know why percula is prized more, either. Maybe because percula is less commonly availabel and more expensive?
Tomoko
I cannot really tell the difference between the two and they both look very cute to me. I don't know why percula is prized more, either. Maybe because percula is less commonly availabel and more expensive?
Tomoko
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It's usaully the dad who tends the eggs, but when the flash went off, the mom got really concerned and came between the camera and the eggs .
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They guard their eggs really well, but I hear that they tend to eat their own fry .
On the other hand, FW cichlids, which are supposedly related to ocean fish, guard their eggs and fry untill the fry disperse on their own. It's so cute to see a proud mom parading her fry up and down the front of the aquarium. My stupid pair of angelfish, who did not know that they are cichlids, used to guard their eggs but ate all wigglers (the last stage of egg to larva development), though
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. On the other hand, FW cichlids, which are supposedly related to ocean fish, guard their eggs and fry untill the fry disperse on their own. It's so cute to see a proud mom parading her fry up and down the front of the aquarium. My stupid pair of angelfish, who did not know that they are cichlids, used to guard their eggs but ate all wigglers (the last stage of egg to larva development), though
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Here's day 7 egg picture.
I am not sure if they will hatch tonight because they still look so orange. We shall see....
Tomoko
I am not sure if they will hatch tonight because they still look so orange. We shall see....
Tomoko
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13332673#post13332673 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tomoko Schum
They guard their eggs really well, but I hear that they tend to eat their own fry
I think once they are hatched, they are no longer their babies in the clownfish mind, but food.
"Hey! Where'd the eggs go... oooh, look... plankton!"
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The light has been off for 5 to 10 minutes, but they are not coming out yet....
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Here's day 8 picture. I am hoping that they will hatch tonight, but they still look a bit orangish....
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They finally hatched today
Here's the day 9 egg picture:
I got tire of waiting with a cup and a bucket in my hands. While I waited, I made a make shift larvae snagger with a coke bottle, a pen light, and an air lift tube from an old Tetra sponge filter that I used to use for raising apistogramma and angelfish fry.
Here's the video of brand new larvae in a snagger. I hope you can see the silver colored larvae:
Here's the snagger in action in my 120 reef tank:
I know, it's quite a Rube Goldberg... Leave it to Tomoko to come up with a make-shift weird looking contraption
I gotta sweet talk 8Ball into make-ing me a nice professional looking acrylic snagger like an expensive CPR's larvae collection unit.
At least my contraption was cheap and quick to make. It's very effective, too It captured quite a few mysid shrimp babies to my surprise. I did not know my 120 had baby mysid living in it with my mandarin and leopard wrasse hunting pods all the time.
Tomoko
Here's the day 9 egg picture:
I got tire of waiting with a cup and a bucket in my hands. While I waited, I made a make shift larvae snagger with a coke bottle, a pen light, and an air lift tube from an old Tetra sponge filter that I used to use for raising apistogramma and angelfish fry.
Here's the video of brand new larvae in a snagger. I hope you can see the silver colored larvae:
Here's the snagger in action in my 120 reef tank:
I know, it's quite a Rube Goldberg... Leave it to Tomoko to come up with a make-shift weird looking contraption
I gotta sweet talk 8Ball into make-ing me a nice professional looking acrylic snagger like an expensive CPR's larvae collection unit.At least my contraption was cheap and quick to make. It's very effective, too
It captured quite a few mysid shrimp babies to my surprise. I did not know my 120 had baby mysid living in it with my mandarin and leopard wrasse hunting pods all the time.Tomoko
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Tomoko Schum
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A sad news. The new larvae from the last night suddenly died this afternoon after I put a Ammonia badge in the tank They seemed to be doing fine, eating rotifers and pooping until I put the badge in. When I checked them 1 hour later, they were all dead except for a few. All rotifers and baby mysid shrimp are alive and well, though. The badge indicates that there is no ammonia. I am wondering if this was the stress from the capturing or an O2 problem.
My babies from the last batch are still doing well right now. I have not lost any of these. They have grown a lot (10 to 12 mm, but really plump looking) and look like tiny clownfish now
Tomoko
They seemed to be doing fine, eating rotifers and pooping until I put the badge in. When I checked them 1 hour later, they were all dead except for a few. All rotifers and baby mysid shrimp are alive and well, though. The badge indicates that there is no ammonia. I am wondering if this was the stress from the capturing or an O2 problem. My babies from the last batch are still doing well right now. I have not lost any of these. They have grown a lot (10 to 12 mm, but really plump looking) and look like tiny clownfish now
Tomoko
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