Clownfish spawn again ! With Video !

Re: Clowns spawn again !

So cute....our clowns spawned for the first time. Of course it was the week we had our Saltwater set up for sale...the guy who bought them said they had at least 10 babies survive. I have some pixs posted here somewhere.

 

Re: Clowns spawn again !

Saturday the fourth batch hatched out into the main display. I moved my cleaner shrimp into my refugium to help the babies odds. I also collected around 50 babies for the grow-out tank. All 50 were dead within 24 hours. This is very frustrating ! Only one survivor is left in the grow-out tank from the first batch of eggs. The babies in the display tank are getting bigger ! I will try to catch the bigger ones for the grow-out tank. That way I feed them plenty of baby brine shrimp.

 

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Congrats on your 4th spawn.
Tom

 

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how many fry do you have?

 

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how many fry do you have?

The only live ones are in the main display tank. Not sure how many there are.

 

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hmmm sound scarey...

 

Re: Clowns spawn again ! With video

Here's a video I took. The fry are in the display tank and so very small ! Hope you can see them, look at the rock where it meets the sand.

 

That is so cool. I couldn't see them until one moved near the rock and it kind of stuck out.
Tom

 

looks great, I couldnt count them they all looked like one moving haha.

 

Yeah their all over in the rock. Now the 5th batch are due to hatch on Wed. night. I'll try to take some better videos soon.

 

wow you might have to teach them fish how to use a condom.. hahaha

 

tell that to my fish 4 spawnings by jewels 2 by blue acars and 1 by severums!!!

Peace Out Callum!

 

tell that to my fish 4 spawnings by jewels 2 by blue acars and 1 by severums!!!

Peace Out Callum!

Your lucky. The only fish I have bred are platys, otos, and guppies.
Tom

 

One more video of the female protecting her nest from a small hermit crab.

 

haha cute video

Peace Out Callum!

 

How about an update...Are the fry surviving? What are you doing with them all? Still getting new batches?

 

Not much of an update ... After the 5th batch of eggs, the clownfish stopped spawning ! Don't know why either. My guess is I have stopped feeding the tank massive amounts of cyclopeezes and baby brine shrimp. Due to raising nitrates. No fry survived ... Raising clown fry is very very hard !