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Here's a close-up shot of the baby clowns I'm raising at six days old at the beginning of their morph. They are beginning to swim like clowns with their undulating, waddling selves, too. Cute, huh? 
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PygmyAngel
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Karen,
How's it working/coming along? Doing anything different than with the fish we tried?
By the way, I haven't called because they did a 3rd batch on the glass again. But looks like you are busy raising other clowns anyway, and with another project, so at least you are still getting practice.
Kim
How's it working/coming along? Doing anything different than with the fish we tried?
By the way, I haven't called because they did a 3rd batch on the glass again. But looks like you are busy raising other clowns anyway, and with another project, so at least you are still getting practice.
Kim
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Here's another one I liked.
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Kim,
I was almost afraid to post these for fear I'd jinx it, but I'm getting excited seeing them change their swimming patterns and noting their new dorsal and pectoral fins (not visible in pic). They are funny because they are now bobbing up and down and wiggling side to side alternating with swimming fast. It's like they're not sure yet how to work their new fins.
I'm not doing anything different than before other than waiting a bit longer to introduce the brine. I am judging them on their size first instead of just putting it in on day so and so like last time.
Anyway, wish me luck!
I was almost afraid to post these for fear I'd jinx it, but I'm getting excited seeing them change their swimming patterns and noting their new dorsal and pectoral fins (not visible in pic). They are funny because they are now bobbing up and down and wiggling side to side alternating with swimming fast. It's like they're not sure yet how to work their new fins.
I'm not doing anything different than before other than waiting a bit longer to introduce the brine. I am judging them on their size first instead of just putting it in on day so and so like last time.
Anyway, wish me luck!
djreef
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Awesome job grrrl!
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MMaddox
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awww
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KarenB
Darn, had to give the camera back to its owner, but..........wooohooo! I'm so happy The babies are now forming their first white stripes
Morph city, here we come! You guys have no idea how long I can hold my breath!
The babies are now forming their first white stripes Morph city, here we come! You guys have no idea how long I can hold my breath!
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Sweet.
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Karen,
When their big enough will you be selling any of them to a good home?
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Rick
When their big enough will you be selling any of them to a good home?
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Rick
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KarenB
I haven't discussed this yet with the one who provided the eggs/larvae to me for rearing, but I have to assume they will be sold eventually, as I cannot keep 70 clownfish in my setup indefinitely
If all goes as planned, I will have continuous batches until I can no longer stand it
By the way, these are black onyx percula X ocellaris, so I'm not sure if down the road they themselves will be able to breed successfully. I don't know if being a cross will make them sterile. I do know, however, that their parents are beautiful and they will make fine additions to anyone's setup
If all goes as planned, I will have continuous batches until I can no longer stand it
By the way, these are black onyx percula X ocellaris, so I'm not sure if down the road they themselves will be able to breed successfully. I don't know if being a cross will make them sterile. I do know, however, that their parents are beautiful and they will make fine additions to anyone's setup
PygmyAngel
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Karen, at what point did the egg provider give you the eggs? If my clowns ever decide to quit putting their eggs on the glass, and I can actually bring you more eggs, I am wondering how we can avoid what happened last time.....just trying to get an idea.
...When I say at what point, I mean do you know how many days old the eggs were before the person brought them to you?
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Kim
...When I say at what point, I mean do you know how many days old the eggs were before the person brought them to you?
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Kim
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Let me know when they are available and how much they will be sold for... I have a 90g with lots of fun places for them to play ;-D BTA, frogspawn, hammer, hairy mushrooms etc...
My clown fish decided to play Nemo and make a run for it, unfortunately he didn't make it far on land, and I didn't discover him until the next day.
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My clown fish decided to play Nemo and make a run for it, unfortunately he didn't make it far on land, and I didn't discover him until the next day.
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lesd
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Kim --
My clowns laid the eggs around 5PM on March 7th (a Monday). Karen came and picked up the eggs the following Tuesday evening the 15th before lights out.
Luckily, I live about a 5 minute drive away from her, so the trip in the car for the eggs was very short.
-- Les
P.S. -- These clowns were uprooted from their temporary home in Milwaukee and shipped to my setup here in January. This was their first batch of eggs since the move.
Kim --
My clowns laid the eggs around 5PM on March 7th (a Monday). Karen came and picked up the eggs the following Tuesday evening the 15th before lights out.
Luckily, I live about a 5 minute drive away from her, so the trip in the car for the eggs was very short.
-- Les
P.S. -- These clowns were uprooted from their temporary home in Milwaukee and shipped to my setup here in January. This was their first batch of eggs since the move.
PygmyAngel
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So you are waiting till they are almost hatched? Okay, we did the same thing but I had to bring them to her on a long drive across town and that probably upset them a bit. Right after I left her place she told me they had already started hatching, and there was a large mortality rate w/ them. So, just trying to figure out factors that may have contributed to that.
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Thanks, Les, for responding.
Kim, as soon as I put them in the tank I went ahead and put the aeration on them like I did for the maroons, and then I turned out the lights in hopes that they would hatch soon after, in that they wouldn't have to be under the aeration too long and then risk losing eggs due to fungus overnight because of not enough aeration. Then within 30 minutes I checked on them and they had all hatched.....all but seven. So then I immediately turned down the air and removed the rock and fed them the rotifers. I put the rock with the unhatched eggs in a separate container with aeration to see if they'd hatch out, but they never did. I'm glad now that I did not risk all the others for the seven.
I think in the case with your maroons that did hatch, they had to endure the turbulent air all night, and then the other eggs never hatched out mainly due to not enough flow on them. It's a double-edged sword. I don't think you could have done anything differently. I now have a better feel for just how fragile newly hatched larvae are. So I suppose I did do it differently than the maroons, since the maroons take over a couple of hours to all hatch out, making them have to endure the turbulence longer.
Remember, we did have a survivor after 8 days that made it until it choked on a brine shrimp that I gave it too soon.
Kim, as soon as I put them in the tank I went ahead and put the aeration on them like I did for the maroons, and then I turned out the lights in hopes that they would hatch soon after, in that they wouldn't have to be under the aeration too long and then risk losing eggs due to fungus overnight because of not enough aeration. Then within 30 minutes I checked on them and they had all hatched.....all but seven. So then I immediately turned down the air and removed the rock and fed them the rotifers. I put the rock with the unhatched eggs in a separate container with aeration to see if they'd hatch out, but they never did. I'm glad now that I did not risk all the others for the seven.
I think in the case with your maroons that did hatch, they had to endure the turbulent air all night, and then the other eggs never hatched out mainly due to not enough flow on them. It's a double-edged sword. I don't think you could have done anything differently. I now have a better feel for just how fragile newly hatched larvae are. So I suppose I did do it differently than the maroons, since the maroons take over a couple of hours to all hatch out, making them have to endure the turbulence longer.
Remember, we did have a survivor after 8 days that made it until it choked on a brine shrimp that I gave it too soon.
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Oh, and Kim, when you want to try it again, your fish cooperatiing, of course, just let me know. Since I've got a system down, it wouldn't be difficult to add another batch. I plan to do that, anyway, with Les's. I think his are already working on another batch. I do think that these have given me good practice, too
Wow, Les, didn't realize this was the first batch since being here. That's cool that they were able to make it this time instead of being fish and coral food
And I will post them up for sale if/when they are ready to go Those that don't get sold here will go to the LFS, I imagine.
Wow, Les, didn't realize this was the first batch since being here. That's cool that they were able to make it this time instead of being fish and coral food
And I will post them up for sale if/when they are ready to go
Those that don't get sold here will go to the LFS, I imagine.
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when they are ready ill take one Karen!
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PygmyAngel
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Sigh......as of tonight the Maroons are setting their 4th set of eggs onto the glass. Why when I finally started to make the effort to try to raise the babies after 2 years, they pick one place and stick to it - the one place that I can never remove the eggs from!?!? Errr.
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PygmyAngel said:
Maybe you could cover that spot with a rock(s) as a blockade so they'd be forced to put the eggs there instead *shrug*
