Woot!! Clownfish eggs! (1 Viewer)

[Cakepro]

Hmmm....go figure....I've had my pair of stupid, inbred, non-egg-laying ORA ocellaris clowns for four years, and had decided last week to give them away so I could get another pair that would hopefully lay eggs, and guess what I found on the rock next to their bee--you--tiful rose anemone a little while ago? A nice wad of bright orange eggs with little specks in them! Yippee!!

They've got good timing, too, since a book I won on eBay ~ Joyce Wilkerson's Clownfishes, is on its way to my house. Such interesting timing this pair has!

I wonder if slowly flooding my sump with 10 gallons of kalkwasser water yesterday and dropping the spg from 1.026 to 1.022 had anything to do with it. I removed at least 5 gallons of this water and replaced it with Oceanic seawater that I had mixed last week for a water change. Maybe Oceanic will give me free salt for life if I claim 5 gallons of it made clownfish eggs appear. LOL

Yippee!

~ Sherri

 

[pernelf]

Congrats, are you going to try and raise them?

 

[Guest]

Congrats now you get to start saturation feedings to get healthy larvae and suffer through the algae from the uneaten food.

 

[Cakepro]

Well for this batch I'm going to let nature take its course, since I don't have the book or any knowledge of raising baby clownfish. It sure will be cool to try, though!

~ Sherri

 

[Guest]

Sherri,

Congrats! Get online. The best info. on clowns is probably
right at your fingertips.

 

[Guest]

Congrats! You have to post pictures..
Cyn

 

[Guest]

Sherri-
I didn't get a chance to tell you last night. You seem like you are a bit worried like this is a one time thing. Once clowns start laying they will (unless you add to the fish or change the rock lay out) lay 2.2 times a month. Let these first batches go; your corals will enjoy the snack of a few clowns. Pump those clowns full of food, give you male more time to learn how to fertilize and take care of the eggs. Next thing you know you'll have a ton of healthy larvae.
Besides Thin Bar Xenia we need a rotifer culture. Some people may have rotifers but we need one untainted by everything. A few pods in your culture and your larvae become pod snacks.

If you get these things suckers on a roll laying I'd like to get to give it a try too with you larvae. I need to put on some Barry White and pour some champagne in the tanks because all my clowns would rather eat than breed.

Don't you wish you didn't have a brother and sister now that your clowns are laying.

 

[FireEater]

I have been watching my eggs every night since Saturday. Now watch them hatch tonight while I'm at the FD.

I missed the last 2 batches.

Mark

edit: I just looked at them after coming home. They now have silver tips on them. The male is also really guarding them more closely than before.

 

[Guest]

Sherri if a 5G WC with Oceanic Salt in a 75G can incite your clowns to spawn then my clowns will be down right randy after I just replaced 10G of water with Oceanic in a 25G tank.

 

[FireEater]

Well my clown eggs hatched last night while I was at work. I go home this morning and no more eggs.

Now to see when they will lay the 4th batch.

Mark

 

[Guest]

Give them 6 - 7 days they'll lay again.
Pump your clowns full of food. If clowns come up to the glass to beg for food they don't have enough to eat for breeding.

 

[FireEater]

Well, just like clockwork I now have more eggs!

They laid them today. They are orange looking as of now. I will keep an eye on them and hopefully get to see them hatch this time.

Mark

 

[FireEater]

Here is pic I took a few minutes ago. Daddy is guarding them real good. They seem to get more aggressive each time they lay.

Mark

http://www.local1259iaff.org/clowneggs5-7-04.jpg