I wish my clowns laid on a rock, but they prefer the back glass.
Yeah I tried that when they were spawning about a year ago. They responded by not laying eggs for 9 months lol.If they lay the eggs in about the same spot each time, you could try what I did with my freshwater angel fish. I just put a thin piece of glass against the tank glass where they lay their eggs, then just pull the glass out with the eggs and put the whole thing in another tank for hatching and raising. That way you don't have to worry about catching the fry. I put an airstone with a gentle air flow near the eggs to produce a slight current to simulate the parents' fanning of the eggs.
Yeah I tried that when they were spawning about a year ago. They responded by not laying eggs for 9 months lol.
I've got a pretty good DIY solution this time around, should do much better.
I have heard of people using airline as a siphon to get the eggs out. I also heard it's easy to damage the unhatched fry that way.The eggs hatched a few nights ago and were, predictably, gone in the morning. The rock they were on, while technically removable, is rather large and has 2 nems on it, so not the best piece to move around. While I was trying figure out a way to encourage the clowns to lay future litters elsewhere, I discovered that they already laid another batch in the same spot! Has anyone successfully scraped eggs of a rock and incubated them in their own tank?