clownfish babies!!!

[josie]

our clownfish lay eggs every month... here's our firts attempt to hatch the fry...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uur7Ia8Hxg

[Lance]

Good Luck Josie!
I've often thought about raising a brood from my Fire Clowns, but then I remember I already have 3 tanks and living in Powell River I would have to ship the grown babies.

[George]

Very cool. What are you feeding the babies?

[mark]

please keep us updated

[josie]

Very cool. What are you feeding the babies?

I bought rotifers....
and I will start a phyto reactor to feed the rotifers...
dont think our first will be succesfull.. but we are learning ;)

[Doug]

Nice video Josie. Good luck with them.

[josie]

UPDATE:

the babies did not make it... well it's not really a big surprise, it's our first try at this and we were not that prepare, my husband was too quick deciding to do this before getting all the equipment :rolleyes:

But next month we will be better installed and will try again :)

[lockrookie]

talk to wil0311 he has successfully raised clowns he cangive you advice if you need it. i bought 4 from him

[josie]

talk to wil0311 he has successfully raised clowns he cangive you advice if you need it. i bought 4 from him

thanks!! :)

[josie]

we got equipment to get ready for the next spawning!


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/equipement.jpg

the tank for the rotifers:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/rotifer.jpg

the phyto reactors to feed the rotifers:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/phyto.jpg

we have to get a 10g to connect to the main tank for the next babies...
and a 5g to hatch brine shrimps too...

anything we are forgetting?

[Ryan]

There is an excellent read on Reef Central under the spawning section about a guy breeding black percs. Very detailed on how to raise them and the food, also lots of pictures on his set up and methods.

"Clownfish" by Joyce D. Wilkerson is a very good read as well on raising the babies as well as the food source for them.

Best of luck to you.

[josie]

thanks!

yes I got that book! really good infos in there!

Ill get my nephew microscope to check if my rotifers are alive or not.. I bought a bottle of it and it's supose to be easy to start...

[emerald crab]

What did you use to start your phyto culture?

[josie]

What did you use to start your phyto culture?

mh, dont remember the brand.. it's in a bottle in the fridge at Big Als... but dont think it was that good...
my 2 mini bottles of phyto died yesterday! :thumbdown
I'm going to shop around to get better products...
is there brands that are better then others?
and for the rotifers... is it better to get those in bottles or get eggs (does it exist?)

[josie]

the brand is ReefNutrition...
dont know if I did something wrong...:neutral:

[emerald crab]

I know that some brands (like DT) designed their product (mixed incompatible strains-species),to have a culture started out of their product crush.