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I agree qt the clowns and treat

The outdoor problem is temp. Either over heats or gets too cold

51 minutes ago, svt_guido said:

Woah.!. Nice.!. 
does anyone know where to find a budget blue light filter.?.

Why don't you adjust your white balance. 

What species of clown

Moved clownfish babys to grow out tank today. 41 baby head counted. 

Grow out tank cycled. Negative tank for ammonia, negative nitrates, negative nitrite. pH 8.4. happy baby's. 

So it's day 27. Here are my clownfish percules there are 30 in this batch it was a very weak batch. Normally I have 50 to 60. But here they are. Some are starting to show signs of their second stripe and they are turning orange. They are eating flake food and baby brine shrimp. They haven't moved out to their grow up tank yet but it is all set up. They are going to move shortly they have zero ammonia in their tank zero nitrite. pH 8.2. their nitrates is 50 parts per million but I'm not worried about that because babies can take that. And I'm not going to do another water change until I move them. When I move them they just get tossed into their new tank. To acclimate them is a bad thing that can stress them out and kill them All at that age. But I will make sure the water temperature and all the tests are the same before I move them. Both tanks got the water from the same tank so they're exact. Except for the nitrate of course. Just a couple more days and they get moved over and get their first filter. 

I'm 8n Springfield interested in chiller

On 5/24/2022 at 1:03 AM, islandVib3s said:

Thats awesome, I cant wait till I get the chance to raise some. Did you transfer the eggs into the breeder tank? Or is there a wait time before transfer?

I transferred eggs from tank. I feel you get more baby's then

So this is day 16 of my percula babies. They are eating baby brine shrimp and tdo a and b. As you can see most of them have metamorphosis and got their first stripes but some of them have it yet. The ones that have metamorphosis have sunk down mainly to the bottom of the tank like they usually do. This will normally freak out a new breeder because they'll just disappear and be at the bottom of the tank and you can't figure out why but that's part of their behavior. They are getting a nice water change the last one and then the next thing they'll get is a grow out tank at about 3 to 4 weeks. So no more water changes after this. There are about 40 babies. They're orange coloring should show up more prominently in the next couple days.

My breeding pair of clowns laid eggs today. First clutch on this pair. So excited. Gotta get another fry tank going now. Because I have baby percula clownfish going now.  Pic of mom and dad. 

I hope you enjoy your copepods

Sorry with school and what not no traveling for me. 

Here's some will have adults and baby's and eggs. Just luke reef nutritions bottles

This size bottle high density.

Keep rotifers with air and green water 8n the dark and they will produce like nuts. Don't do tons of water changes. Mine seem to like it a little murky the rotifers I mean

They look like a tummy and head. Ver go peanuts. That's how full their tummy's need to be

I do my first water change about day 4. Ammonia out stuff is your friend. Water changes stress them out. They can take up to 1.0 on ammonia. 

If they die within 48 hours it's normally starvation density of rotifers are big enough there's not enough green water so the light can make it hard for them

 to see food. There might not have been enough air in the tank for the amount of rotifers that you had in there. But my best guess is starvation at that 48 hour. They might have enough rotifers but what you're feeding your rotifers might not be the best that's a possibility too. 

I have live copepods fed nanno green water for sale. 15 bucks a bottle. I'm in Springfield. 

To meta faster tank temp should be warm. 80 to 82 degrees f. Sand they need to look like peanuts. At day 5 I feed tdo a. I've tried sooner but they don't take it and it pollutes 

On 5/11/2022 at 11:09 AM, mpfinnigan said:

I've got a pair of Ocellaris Clowns that started breeding in October.  Laying eggs almost like clockwork in the main tank. 

The current batch, my trap only caught 9-10 larvae, of those 3 are alive.  Not sure what caused the others to fall out after 24-72 hours. Likely my quantity of Roti's was low.   

Lot's of learnings as I go along.  I lost one batch due to a bad heater (swings too high/low).  I lost one batch at day 25 due to SDS.  I think it was the loud noise from a carpet cleaner as they all dropped within 3 hours that afternoon.  There were a few batches I didn't time well with setting up my Vossen Trap and didn't catch any at all.  One batch was 70+, but they all died within 48 hours, no clue why.  I have another batch with a lone survivor of only 4 that didn't even start metamorphis for 25 days but is now 6 months old and doing fine.

How many clutches have you produced?  Any tips for success you've discovered?  I've been trying to follow the advice from the ReefNutrition page and some other posts.

 

I have done 14 or 15 clutches. On occellarius on day three I start baby brine shrimp and rotifers or the clowns won't grow and starve bbs can't be more than 48 hours old. Tinted tank with green water of course. Feed 3 to 4 times a day. 

11 hours ago, mpfinnigan said:

Nice catch!  Looks like a good 50+ harvest.  I'm on day 27 of my last batch...3 survivors working on their 2nd white stripe and wrestling over the TDO pellets.  

What species are you breeding

Why did u loose so many? I normally make it through metamorphosis with at least 50

Day 2 baby Nemo's eating rotifers. In green water.  These are percula baby