My New Phantom & Snowflake Clownfish (1 Viewer)

[mwilliams62]

Well over the weekend I could not resist and picked up two new little guys.. They are in the QT for the next 3 - 4 weeks.
I hope they get a little bit bigger by the time QT is over with so I can put them in the DT.

And take my breeding pair of True Percs out of the DT so they can have their very own tank to have sucessful batches.

 

[Jaypilot]

Beautiful pair. I have to ask though, where did you pick those up localy? Secondly do you use any meds in your QT tank? I Just got to the point where I have A LOT of money invested in my breeding system and I am now scared to add anything with out going through QT first.

 

[mwilliams62]

Yes picked them up locally. I do not put any meds in the QT just keeping the SG very low to kill any parasites sort of like the Hypo-salinity bath.. I think that is what it is called just not quite that low. But they will be in the QT for 3-4 wks. Then depending on their size I will move my breeding pair out of the DT and put them their own tank and move the new guys into the DT. I don't have a breeding system. "Yet" I have been having problems with the pair that I have now so I do not want to invest alot of money in something that I am still new at it.
I am hoping that when I move my breeding pair out and into their own tank that I will have better sucess rate with the batches.

 

[Ostentum]

Dont be shocked if the percs stop laying when you move them. When I put mine from the 110g-260 they stopped laying for 3 months.

 

[mwilliams62]

I want be shocked that is kind of what I am hoping for.. I know she stopped laying eggs for like 3 wks when I put that tile in there and then she decieded to lay the eggs on another rock. Then on like the last 3 batches she has been laying them right in the middle of the 4 RBTA's. So I don't know where she is going to have her new batch today when I get home from work.

 

[Jaypilot]

Just keep it up. I have a pair of tomato clowns that have been a GREAT pair as far as laying eggs go. The first batch that I tried to raise I got about 100 to hatch (out of 500 eggs), because I pulled the eggs to soon and as a result alot of them died off before hatching. Out of those 100 larva I had 4 make it past meta and only 1 now that is about 3 weeks old and looking great. The second batch I had a pair of tomatos and a pair of ocellaris both were scheduled to hatch on the same night. I got about 90% to hatch and then the two days later my air pump went out and by the time I found it I only had about 50 larva left. Of those 50 I have about 25 that are just now making it past mata. and I just noticed that a few hours ago that both my tomato and ocellaris pair are sitting on over 1000 eggs again.

So what am I say? I guess its just that I am still vary new at this my self and I have made WAY too many mistakes but each batch seems to get a little better. So just stay with it and before you no it you will have more clowns then you know what to do with.

 

[LSUFireGal]

Very pretty.