My babies

[sailfin]

hey Rob, baby clownfish make great stingray food! lol. just kidding.

Well... you're off the adoption list hehehe!

Congratulation on your baby clowns Rob! However I do think you'll need a screening process in place to find them good homes right Walrus....

[Rob]

yea sounds like it...
these arent feeder guppies.. not with all the tiem and work that goes into raising healthy one..

[JayBeDriften]

yea sounds like it...
these arent feeder guppies.. not with all the tiem and work that goes into raising healthy one..

Hey... my clownfish sleeps safely at night with my Stingray. Remember fish are friends not food!

[bob21115]

Rob,

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.

See http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1536 for a video.

[Rob]

working on getting the video files now..
depends on the species, but its usually between 8-10 days.

its awesome that they are spawning, took me about 8 months to get my 2 spawning.. lol

[bob21115]

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 added a QT mov file to my post try it.

[Rob]

just to update everyone..

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..

[m8298]

Hey Rob, sorry to hear of your losses. It must be a pretty good feeling to have the 17 that made it though. I'm looking forward to the pics.

Is phyto not the best food for rotifers?

[Rob]

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.

[m8298]

How did you figure that out (to be the cause?)

[Rob]

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

[Rob]

here are some updated photos

[Rob]

and heres the next batch that was just laid

[CarmieJo]

They look like little clowns now!

[fat walrus]

great work Rob. but why are you not giving us that finger for size reference? lol

[fat walrus]

Congrats!!


<---- Rob trying to keep up with the clown babies!

is Rob ready for yet more clown babies?

[Rob]

They look like little clowns now!

yep, there getting there

great work Rob. but why are you not giving us that finger for size reference? lol

sorry, will stick my finger in the shot next time... (mental note - make sure to wipe of boogers.. )

is Rob ready for yet more clown babies?

oh yeah, have the anther tank setup and ready to go..

and i recounted again tonight, and i now count 19, not 17.. which was good..

[fat walrus]

sorry, will stick my finger in the shot next time... (mental note - make sure to wipe of boogers.. )

wow! those are gonna have to big clowns to compare in size of Rob's boogers!

[JeffDubya]

This Is So Cool!!!

[Koby!]

WOW! is all i can say... i hope that once i become an expert in this hobby lmao! i will be able to do this!!

[V]

wont be long koby, when u have an interest it wont take long!

nice gif pic by the way!

[Rob]

here are some updated photos, there not great, but should be good for now

[CarmieJo]

Cute little clowns you have there.

[Reefbaby]

Wow Rob!!! That's great! I hope they weren't affected by your disaster?.....

[JeffDubya]

Hey Rob... this project should be something you continue to be happy about. Like a phoenix from the ashes...

Question: since you are still experiencing massive die off wouldn't it make sense to extract every and any living thing into a quarrantine tank for now?