I already posted this on RC so if you read or replied to it their please disregard but I'm just looking for as much advice as possible.
I am pretty new at breeding clowns. I have two breeding pair that I have tried to raise three batches of their eggs. I am getting 500-700 eggs per clutch (ocellaris and tomato pairs) with almost 100% hatch rate. On hatch night around 12:00am I would look into the tank with a small pen light and there would be 100s of baby fry. However by the time I get up in the AM there would only be about 50 left. Of those 50 I am able to keep about 40 to the one month point. Of those 40 so far I have zero misbars.
Because I have no misbars and I am able to get a large number of eggs to the one month point I believe my water quality is good. My question is though what is the normal cause for fry not making it past the first 12 hours.
Is it possible the diet that I'm feeding the parents and maybe the eggs are harder to break through? I have heard of people having good luck on just NLS which is pretty much all that I feed. Sometime I will treat them with mysis but thats pretty much it.
Any advice would help. Momma is holding a bunch of eggs as I type this (ocellaris momma) and I would like to try your advice this next time around.
I am pretty new at breeding clowns. I have two breeding pair that I have tried to raise three batches of their eggs. I am getting 500-700 eggs per clutch (ocellaris and tomato pairs) with almost 100% hatch rate. On hatch night around 12:00am I would look into the tank with a small pen light and there would be 100s of baby fry. However by the time I get up in the AM there would only be about 50 left. Of those 50 I am able to keep about 40 to the one month point. Of those 40 so far I have zero misbars.
Because I have no misbars and I am able to get a large number of eggs to the one month point I believe my water quality is good. My question is though what is the normal cause for fry not making it past the first 12 hours.
Is it possible the diet that I'm feeding the parents and maybe the eggs are harder to break through? I have heard of people having good luck on just NLS which is pretty much all that I feed. Sometime I will treat them with mysis but thats pretty much it.
Any advice would help. Momma is holding a bunch of eggs as I type this (ocellaris momma) and I would like to try your advice this next time around.