ZC's clownfish breeding thread

Thanks for the reply mate i have had 4 attempts in moving mine into the a small tank each time i wake up the eggs were white !

1st time the temp was to high ! (was a rush job)
2nd time i used fresh SW
3rd time i used tank water and moved the eggs straight from one tank to another
4th time i slid a ice cream container underneath so there were in water.
5th time i was to late and they hatched in the display could see them swimming about
then they haven't laid eggs for 5month now they have started again.
 
Geez man, sounds like you've had a rough time of it! When you would move the pot and eggs to the hatching tank, did you set an airstone next to the eggs until they hatched to keep them oxygenated and to prevent fungus and bacterial infections?
 
Yeah mate lol not easy tho is it!

i did have a air stone in there but was unsure of the flow and how close it should be etc
 
Have you gotten your Snow and B&W pair yet? Will you be putting them in a 10g tank also? Will you link all the tanks together with a sump? Seeing your success has inspired me to do this also. I got the acrylic tank below for cheap and want to section it off to hold a few pairs of clowns? Right now its 48x14x24High. I think it's a little tall. What height would you cut it down to and can I fit 3-4 pairs in it? Thanks in advance for the input and I will be following your progress.


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Have you gotten your Snow and B&W pair yet? Will you be putting them in a 10g tank also? Will you link all the tanks together with a sump? Seeing your success has inspired me to do this also. I got the acrylic tank below for cheap and want to section it off to hold a few pairs of clowns? Right now its 48x14x24High. I think it's a little tall. What height would you cut it down to and can I fit 3-4 pairs in it? Thanks in advance for the input and I will be following your progress.
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The snowflake/b&w pair should be shipped to me either this coming week or the next... I hope. I'm really anxious about raising their babies. And yeah, I have a 10gal that has been set up for them for a while.
Once I get my fish room finished I will put together a broodstock and growout setup that will all be plumbed together with a 40gal sump.
It's awesome that you've decided to give it a try! Do you have any spawning pairs yet?
That acrylic tank should work, even with it's height you could probably make three sections out of it. :)
 
Congrats on your success Zero. I too am having trouble with my Picaso clutches. I've had 4 and none have survived past 4 days. I really think it has to do with my rot culture. I don't think I'm getting them dense enough, thus the babies aren't getting enough food. How is your rot cultures set up ? I feed rotigrow plus. Also, how do you harvest and how do you feed your larvae ?
 
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I have only two buckets set up right now, one 4gal and one 5gal. with just an airline running down to the bottom of each and being held there by rubber banding the airline to a stone (ya, it's cheap but works).
I do a 1gal water change on both buckets every day and strain the rots through 120 micron and 53 micron seives. The rots are then just dumped into the hatch tank and tint the water in there green.
Once a day, after I do the harvest, I tint the water of the rotifer cultures green with the rotigrow. You have to do some trial and error to figure out how much to add, but if you add too much it can foul the water so it is best to add less than you think and keep an eye on it. When the water loses the green tint, you'll know the rots are eating and reproducing, then you feed again and time it to where you have a schedule going. I can judge, by sight, how much to tint it so that I only have to feed once a day.
HTH!
 
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Thanks. I pretty much do the same thing. I can't figure out why I can't get by day 4. Think it's a starvation issue, but can't seem to remedy it. Keep trying I guess.
 
This is my first attempt and I lost over 600 larvae over the first couple of days. Turns out there was too much flow and they were exghausting themselves because I was using a big airstone and had it sitting on the bottom of the tank. Since I replaced it with a smaller one and raised it closer to the surface, I've only lost 2 larvae since. How is your airstone placed?
Other than that, it may be starvation like you say. I put a ton of rots into the hatching tank, everything I strain from the 2 gal. I harvest. Keep the water in your rot cultures tinted so green that you can't see the bottom, that seems to work for me!
 
My airstone is a smallish one, and it is on the bottom. I don't have it cranked up too much. It may also be a temperature thing. I have a very small heater in the larvae tank, and only keeps the water at 75. The broodstock tank is a pretty constant 82.
I will split my rot culture and harvest more this time. I'm also getting a larger heater. We'll see if that works on the next batch, which should be layed today. :beer:
 
Yes, definitely get the heat up in the larvae tank to the same as the broodstock tank! That may be what the main problem is.
Keep us updated on this next clutch! :D
 
Looks like most of them have head bands now! :D

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This little guy is absolutely in love with the ammonia alert badge... I'll need to get a surrogate anemone for them soon, lol.

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So I put something really ugly in the tank today but the little guys are in love with it. As soon as it was in the water a group of them started hosting it, even as I was setting it down... I think I'm going to have to buy or maybe make something larger for them..

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I've observed something else too. Up until this point, the majority of the babies have been huddling in the two back corners of the tank.. but now that the ugly nem/coral/thing is in the tank, they are all dispersed evenly throughout the water column (except when I'm nearby, then they go back to huddling, so of course I can't get any pics of it). This is cool to see. :)
 
Right on schedule, eggs layed ! Heaters bought, Rots split and fed, larval tank set up. Thanks for all your usefull info on this thread, and awesome photos ! I'll be tagging along. :beer:
 
Woohoo! :dance:
Let us know when they hatch!

I'm really thinking about raising this next batch (due to hatch Saturday night).... I've been holding off because I have that second pair arriving hopefully next week, but then I realized that they probably won't start spawning for me for at least a month or two. By the time both batches get big enough to need larger growout tanks, I can have my broodstock and growout system set up. Or in the very least I can set up a big 100gal or even a 40gal. rubbermaid tub or similar and put all of them together in it. Hmmmm.....
 
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