What to do with clown eggs

[Fishboy42]

Early on in my breeding efforts, I spent many evenings at local reef club members' homes collecting fry to bring back to my house to raise. The survival wasn't as high as if they were hatched in-house, but it was worth the access to additional species (and numbers of breeding pairs). We would collect the larvae and I would bring them home in an insulated bucket--I'd estimate the survival at about 75% (of the collected larvae), and I attributed the losses from the stresses of transfer. Within a 1-hour drive, we hatched, transported, and raised clarkii, tomato, ocellaris, and percula.

So to answer the OP--if there are people within a reasonable drive of your house and you'd like to hatch the eggs and have them available for someone to bring home the evening of hatch and raise, I think that'd be doable You could also ship the eggs overnight (many have done this--Live Aquaria and ORA teamed-up to raise A. mcCullochi this way). Of course as Gresh has pointed-out above, the Rising Tide guys have gone way beyond this in shipping eggs/larvae cross-country with great success, even with never-before-raised species.

Matt C.

 

[billsreef]

Just because they are public aquariums does not mean they know any more then an average hobbyist, some would surprise you.

Some of the questions I see posed on the aquaticinfo list (professional aquarist email list) can be quite entertaining...and who's asking can be quite surprising

 

[ClownfishSushi]

Sure they do. I have seen this posted numerous times, and have seen it amongst my MO breeder friends, perhaps you just have never heard or seen it....

In the spirit of good fun I'm having a hard time deciding if you are trolling or just really this full of bad advice? I fully expect your next bit of wisdom to be that it's possible to rear clownfish in a toilet. Ok, maybe that was the reisling talking. I do spend a lot of money on your stuff. Randy is the man. I have to imagine someone over there knows what they are talking about. Good night!

 

[Fishboy42]

I fully expect your next bit of wisdom to be that it's possible to rear clownfish in a toilet.

I raised some in a pickle jar once

 

[longtran]

You can wait for them to hatch and catch them. I don't see why you can't transfer them within 24 hr after they hatched since they rely on their one yolk for food the first 24 hr. Here is my project in the making http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2126349 I have another batch coming but I plan to give them to my LFS after they hatch.

 

[ClownfishSushi]

I raised some in a pickle jar once

lol.. ouch. ugh, my head hurts haha

 

[reefstew]

This is virtually impossible. The mortality rate would push 99.9% transporting fry or eggs. Sorry.

I purchase Mocha eggs from a local breeder on the day that they will hatch. I get an average of 230 per batch to live past meta. It can be done.

 

[ClownfishSushi]

I purchase Mocha eggs from a local breeder on the day that they will hatch. I get an average of 230 per batch to live past meta. It can be done.

That's nice. But his original post was about selling fry, not eggs. What do you think the success rate would be if 1-3 day old fry were shipped across the country in a plastic bag? And how much would YOU be willing to pay for them?

 

[reefstew]

I looked at the title What to do with eggs. Trying to ship fry would be very difficult. Also I have 3 breeding pairs of Ocellaris & I'm not raising the fry since I have close to 5000 in grow out.

 

[billsreef]

In the spirit of good fun I'm having a hard time deciding if you are trolling or just really this full of bad advice? I fully expect your next bit of wisdom to be that it's possible to rear clownfish in a toilet. Ok, maybe that was the reisling talking. I do spend a lot of money on your stuff. Randy is the man. I have to imagine someone over there knows what they are talking about. Good night!

Gresh is dead on accurate with his comments, no trolling or bad advice, just plain old on the money.