Third attempt raising clownfish...

They are all swimming, hardly any lying about on the floor, and some are getting dark stomachs. I stayed home from work today to hover over them and take care of them.

The lighting seems to be OK, they are swimming around, not up, not down.

I am keeping the water tinted, and checking the resident rotifers to make sure they have something nutritious in their tummies.

Someone asked about the enrichment:
Last night I counted some rotifers, and did the math to harvest enough volume to give me about 400,000 rots. With this many, I can feed two times, to 20 liters tank water for a rot density of about 10 per ml. These I filtered, and placed in a clean jug with 1 liter 20 ppt water, and 1 Liter ripe phyto. Then I let it bubble for about 8 hours. Then it was morning and time to feed the little mouths. I filtered 1 liter of this stuff, and washed it into a small pitcher with ripe phyto and let that sit for about 30 mins to one hour. This makes sure that the little rots are chock full of the ripe phyto, so if a larvae catches one, it is as nutritious as possible.
 
Kathy,

This is great. Thanks for the pics. Those eggs look lovely, will all the little eyes.

Your babies look good too.

Good luck and will watch this one with interest.

Thanks

Steve
 
My friend is very smart and talented. I hope he is reading this.

My friend's A. Ocellaris lay eggs on the back wall of his display tank. My friend bought this beautiful, corraline algae look alike tile and hung it with fishing line over the spot where they laid the eggs, between spawning, of course. The next time they spawned, they did it right on the tile! very convenient!
 
Found one dead. I looked at it under the scope, and it looks like its head never made it out of the egg. I will try to get a picture thru the microscope later.
 
Funny thing!
I was so worried about not having enough rotifers... I haven't had to add any since last night. They like the larval tank so much they are multiplying faster than the larvae can eat them!
 
Funny thing!
I was so worried about not having enough rotifers... I haven't had to add any since last night. They like the larval tank so much they are multiplying faster than the larvae can eat them!
 
so today I just scraped the tank bottom, and siphoned out the junk with airline tubing and fed the tank phyto to keep the rots green belly-ed.
Here is a shot from Day 2
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I did a little playing with photoshop to get this one:
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Only needed to feed them once today. They are getting some color in their tails--not so transparent anymore. I thought I saw a couple doing the tail kink to nab a rotifer. This is a good sign for some of them, because they do not all have dark bellies from eating lots of rots. Some are still orange from the yolk sac.

thanks to everyone for the encouragement. More tomorrow!
 
kmleah said:
Funny thing!

I was so worried about not having enough rotifers... I haven't had to add any since last night. They like the larval tank so much they are multiplying faster than the larvae can eat them!
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ThatÃ"šÃ‚´s the way it is:p Unless you have many larvae,when you put rots and phyto together,rots multiply and you get a co-culture:p

So most of the times with the green water technique rather than feeding more rots, the thing is how to control the rot over population.Luckily with clowns this game is very short and you are soon playing bs:lol:
 
Kathy,

How is the BS culture doing?

It sounds as if things are going swimmingly at the moment. Cool keep it up and will be waiting and watching.

Steve
 
Congratulations. Very cool. I am anxious to learn enough to give this a shot one day so tagging along.

-Greg
 
Found some dead today. Don't know why.

Some of the larvae have orange stomachs still and are small compared with their black bellied brothers. Yet they live on. When I look at the dead ones under the scope, they look like they have green stomachs, so they must be eating, so why did they die?

Anyone have any insight on this?

Some of them seem to be getting darker on their tail section, less transparent. I hope this is good!
Cheers and thanks for your support,
Kathy
 
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