120g build - Page 5

fishytime · #41 08-06-2009, 02:17 AM

Aw....a proud mama....again

sharuq1 · #42 09-02-2009, 07:21 PM

I have 7 babies left, they turn 15 days old today. Not too bad for being completely unprepared

I really hope these 7 grow up. I wonder if any will turn out to have their mother's interesting color morph? It's like onyx only she is an oscellaris.

Link to AA thread-->http://albertaaquatica.com/index.php...&#entry2198581If you click on the photobucket link at the last post I made you can see a crappy video of the babies fighting for territory.

"The Parents"

Newborn larvae

About to come into his first stripe

10 days old (newly morphed)

At 14 days old (yay, 2nd stripe!)

Soooo cute! They are acting like typical clowns now, fighting over the corners of the tank as their "territory".

Delphinus · #43 09-02-2009, 07:23 PM

That's really awesome!! Awesome.

fooser · #44 09-02-2009, 11:35 PM

Good job!! I made it to 7 days with mine and then ran out of food and coincidentally so did the LFS that I got the food from originally (wouldn't you know I was an hour behind the person who beat me to it). Did not realize they go through food so fast or I would have got more the first time.
I hope your 15 make it all the way!!! I wish I had some tiny little clowns

it would be awesome to have a few of those swimming around my tank.

Carmen · #45 09-02-2009, 11:55 PM

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!! Keep us updated!

fishytime · #46 09-03-2009, 01:36 AM

Great job Kelly!....do you wake up in the middle of the night to feed them

sharuq1 · #47 09-03-2009, 02:34 AM

Thanks everyone!

Quote:

do you wake up in the middle of the night to feed them

Nope.

Believe it or not, I didn't have rotifers either. (Nowhere to buy live ones here.) All I had on hand that was small enough was reefroids for a first food. I fed that almost exclusively the first 4 days, then fed that plus newly hatched BBS and some stuff called "better than brine" (a dry food). Now I'm feeding cyclopeeze (freeze dried, nobody is eating it yet), attempting crushed flake, reefroids and still BBS. I did try the frozen rotifers a couple times, but they made the tank just stink within 2 hours, so I stopped. 7 isn't exactly a great number percentage-wise, but I'll be happy if they live.

Edit: Also feeding frozen BBS as of the 5th

2nd edit: New pic for 19 days old

sharuq1 · #48 09-20-2009, 04:55 PM

The baby clowns are now officially a month old!

In other news I have added more seahorses. Now I have a small "herd" in the 72g of 2 pairs of pretty kudas. My daughter had fun naming them.

There are 2 yellow males, 1 orange female and one sand colored female.

"Peaches"

everyone already loves the food dish

"Spots and Peaches"

"Sunshine"

"Spots" (shy little guy)

I was going to try mixing with Tigertails in the long term, but with a little more research decided against it and ended up returning them to the store. Now I just need to fatten up these new ones. If they are anything like Suzy (the sand colored girl I had already) that shouldn't take too long. She's learned to follow the pipette around. It's so cute.

Suzy before she changed color to "sand"

Another color Suzy has worn

"Sunshine" --this male is pretty interested in Suzy. I caught them "dancing" a few days ago and he had his pouch open. They did not transfer or anything but I expect they will in time after some more pair bonding. I really hope the new ones keep their pretty colors.

fishoholic · #49 09-20-2009, 05:18 PM

That's so cool about the baby clownfish. It looks like they're doing well

and your sea horses are beautiful.

biocuber · #50 09-21-2009, 02:10 AM

Those are some happy looking seahorses, I absolutely love the colours. Great job with the baby clowns also!