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| Posted | CLOWN FISH EGGS |
| 02-10-2006 13:29 by grey_knights |
hi, i need some help here, my clown fish just laid a patch of eggs on this rock, anyways i just wanted to know how to take care of the baby fishes when it hatches. any tips would be helpful, is it even possible for the baby fishes to survive? i have a 280 liter tank. with 6 fishes, 2 angels, blue tang, yellow tang, sail fin tang. |
| 02-10-2006 13:58 by SimonH |
Sadly they are very hard to raise. The fry need rotifers to feed on. These need to be in dense population (no more than 3mm apart) for the fry to have any chance of surviving. |
| 02-10-2006 17:27 by trik |
im sorry to say by the morning the eggs will more than likely be gone , the tangs will eat them why they graze, unless you have a Q tank you could put the rock and parents in, the chances of the eggs being fertilized is remote though, but you never know. good luck . |
| 18-10-2006 16:31 by P25aul |
Hi, i have a pair of Maroon clowns that breed approx every three weeks, the eggs are bright orange when laid and within a few days get darker and more shiny as the eyes reflect, the parents help the fry away by fanning them, and then the fry go to the top of the tank as would happen in the wild. the fry always swim away in perfect darkness approx an hour after the tank goes dark. if you could syphon them off you could into another tank, but you would have to have food etc prepared, for them to feed on, my tank is full of fry when they leave the nest site but by the morning they have disappeared
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| 18-10-2006 16:40 by P25aul |
another pic
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| 18-10-2006 16:44 by P25aul |
and another
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| 23-10-2006 11:24 by P25aul |
Couple of days later
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| 23-10-2006 11:26 by P25aul |
getting darker
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| 23-10-2006 12:50 by yanton |
P25aul, why not lift the rock with eggs into another tank with an airstone and see how many you can rear, or even better, put the parents in a tank on their own. try a sponge filter (huey hongs are good) but as you rightly say, feeding is the real challenge. |
| 23-10-2006 14:44 by P25aul |
i would , but space prohibits, so until i can they are a good source of natural food, shame though |
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