Send in the Clowns - Clown Fish Breeding

[Eduardo]

Very cool. Great job on the pics and updates.

[Azzkr]

Great pictures must be very hard to get pics of those tiny fish. You must of had to take a insane amount of pics to get those few good ones. Keep up the good work.

[Ross]

Thanks everyone.

The depth of field (area in focus) with a macro lens is small to begin with, add in the erratic movements of the fish and yeah, it took "a few shots" to get them in focus.
At times there was a bit of the "spray and pray" approach to getting them but this proved less effective than sitting idly by patiently waiting.

I like how the rotifers are captured along with the fry. The fry are smaller than a grain of rice and the rotifers are just dust compared to them.

[LoJack]

Those photos are unbelievably good considering the size of the fry. I remember trying to shoot my Paretroplus Menarambo fry and they were impossible and they were much bigger than this.

Incredible shots and please continue to update the thread ... I'd love to try this in the future ... and you appear to be having great success thus far.

Keep up the good work!

[Ross]

Originally Posted by LoJack

Those photos are unbelievably good considering the size of the fry....
...Incredible shots and please continue to update the thread ... I'd love to try this in the future ... and you appear to be having great success thus far.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks!

I'll keep this thread going for better or worse.
Hopefully for better.

I'm going to try for another round of photos this weekend.

[Kryptic4L]

Originally Posted by Ross

Thanks!

I'll keep this thread going for better or worse.
Hopefully for better.

I'm going to try for another round of photos this weekend.

Ya stop slacking dude. Get on it.

[Ross]

Without further ado. I present a clown that has survived the metamorphosis from a larvae into a fish.
Note the first white stripe behind his eyes and the slight orange color.




All but that one are still larvae. Slightly larger, but defiantly faster and hungrier.




There have been about 6-10 die in the last few days.
My guess is that they just couldn't survive the changes.
My phyto is being used up at an alarming rate and as a result the rotifers are not as gut loaded as they could be.

My brine shrimp are not hatching anywhere near 90-100%. As a result it is difficult to collect them without getting eggs/empty eggs in the mix.
I think that the cooler basement that I have them in is the main contributing factor to this. The next batch will be upstairs where it's warmer.