Thursday photos-

[Kathy55g]

Here are the seven left over from selling some:
They are 5.5 months old

Now that they are on the new system, they don't have an over flow to hide behind, and they are much more sociable. They even play in the pvc a bit:
Here's Gillbert. He has a notch in his right gill.

Gilbert is the largest one I have left. He is perfectly banded and shaped except for that gill cover.

 

[Kathy55g]

These are the 5 week old ones:

I have 30 of these. These are the ones that survived the heat being turned off accidentally for two nights in a row. Some of them are strangely misbarred. I have 3 or 4 that are missing their middle bar, or have just a spot for a middle bar.

Here's some chummy ones:

I have some 2 week old ones that are just now getting put onto the system, but I don't have any pix of them yet. I have 30-40 of these.

 

[Kathy55g]

Here's what I woke up to this morning. There may be as many as 800 in this 20 gallon tank. I know not all will survive, but I am hoping for a goodly number. I may have to set up another system to raise them if I get anything close to 800 past metamorphosis.

 

[mwp]

Beautiful!

Matt

 

[NicoleC]

Hey! Your 5 week old clowns have full stripes! ALL of mine have the same exact pattern of full first stripe and 2nd and 3rd half stripes, so I thought mine were just still developing. It seems hard to believe every one of mine would be misbarred.

 

[r00onmac]

amazing.. please inform me... i have an onyx from rod, i assume its from the september batch, making him about 5 months old... but he is still missing his 3rd bar and much of his black coloring.. i know that its been said it can take up to 16 months to get all their black, but how long should it take for the third stripe to grow?

 

[Kathy55g]

Nicole, just wait. Some of mine from the previous batch looked horribly misbarred at this age. They filled in for the most part. I ended up with only 2-3 that are slightly misbarred from that batch. 3 with Lordosis, and Gillbert with a notched gill cover. I have some 5 week juvies with NO middle stripe. I still have hope that they will fill in somewhat.

 

[Kathy55g]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6760710#post6760710 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by r00onmac
amazing.. please inform me... i have an onyx from rod, i assume its from the september batch, making him about 5 months old... but he is still missing his 3rd bar and much of his black coloring.. i know that its been said it can take up to 16 months to get all their black, but how long should it take for the third stripe to grow?

I have no idea...

 

[NicoleC]

Hmmm. Yes, I noticed this morning one of them now has almost a whole second stripe.

 

[Kathy55g]

You are up early for a California girl!

 

[NicoleC]

I was at work at 5am. This is what happens when you have a new software version coming out soon. I'm trying to get this server fixed and configured before our big pre-release demo at 10am today.

The dog was like, "what you talkin' about, Willis?!" this morning. Being a typical dog, he ate anyway even though it wasn't breakfast time.

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Kathy,

on the pic with the fresh hatched larvea water seems clear. You dont use any Phyto to tint the water and ensure food resupply for the rots?

 

[Kathy55g]

I do. The fresh hatched larvae had not yet been fed. I was soaking my rots in rotifer diet after growing them in the same stuff, and 20 minutes later, added them with live nannochloropsis to the tank. Meanwhile, I took a picture. I do keep the tank green with live nanno.

 

[BlackOnyx]

Kathy can I see a pic of the rearing tank above?

 

[Kathy55g]

here's the thread on my system

here's the thread on my system

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=766204

 

[spk]

Kathy,
Good luck with this last batch. Was it a collect egg group or a laid egg group?

Steve

 

[Kathy55g]

Same as before, we pulled the tile full of eggs from my friend's tank and I brought them home in a bucket with the airbar, and now since it is winter and the sun still sets early, I devised a battery operated fluorescent light over the bucket to prevent hatching in the car.

 

[Lance one]

Kathy,
800? really? Is that from one pair of percs? I didn't know they could even lay that many eggs.
I have had maybe 300 eggs at most from my percs.
What's your secret?

 

[Kathy55g]

Welcome, Lance one,
Well my friend's ocellaris spawned that many eggs, but by the time the incubation period was over, there were 40 % less eggs. That still puts them at around 600 at hatching. 200 did not hatch, and around 200 died the first day because I left a tile in the tank flat on the floor and they crawled under and suffocated.

So around 200 were left for me to try and raise. We will see! Day 6 and so far, no major die offs except the ones outlined above.

 

[Lance one]

200 is still a great number to start with. Well, at least in my limited experience.
Does your friend have some sort of special diet, tank condition, fertility drugs or just good luck?