How long does it take for the eggs to hatch? My clowns just laid eggs, this is the first time since I got them. They have been laying eggs together for awhile before I got them.
I bought a 150 from a michigan reefer member and the night before I picked it up they has spawned. When they got the eggs back they cleared the rock. That was 2 weeks ago. This afternoon they started to clean the rock, I figured any day now. Then my wife said hey why is this fish swimming upside down?
They are Clarki Clowns or they maybe Blue Stripes but it maybe be my light giving off the blue. Im going to add a tile so I can remove them next time.
i have good news and bad news...
bad news:
there were more deaths than i was hoping for. i believe this was due to lack of nutrition as i had a problem with my phytocultures leading to improper rotifer health, leading to the rotifers not being a good enough food source.. tried to supplement with some golden pearls, but it was to late for most by the time i realized.
Good News:
i have 17 of them alive and doing well, i am now free and clear of the metamorphoses phase, and all 17 are starting to show there first stripe. there are still very small, will try to get some new pics if i can..
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no, phyto is great food, but i ran into some problems with my cultures..
left the caps off my water containers which caused the SG in my culture medium to get too high this caused very poor production of phyto, which meant little food for the rotifers. with this lack of food, the rotifer density dropped and what was in there was not well feed, meaning it was not very nutritious for the fish.
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well i knew something wasn't right after noticing my cultures weren't getting darker..
so i went through filtering and splitting as normal but still nothing, then i split and used new containers and everything. still same problem.
this time when doing my split i thought about the culture medium and testing the SG of what i had left, and it was about 1.024-1.025, so lowered it to 1.019 and setup one test culture with what was left.. within 2 days it was back to a nice dark color...
and has been fine since
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hehehe! 
right Walrus....
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