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alexcyf
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Breeding clownfish can be such a heart wrenching learning process. One simple mistake can lead to a major tragedy.. This morning, I wake up to 45 casualties. on inspection, I realised that my rotifer culture has seemed to crashed. I have been feeding dead roti or very few roti this couple of days to my fries. Well should have went back to the same LFS to get a more stable source of Rotifers. No wonder many were dive bombing last night.. Another possible reason might be that I have adjusted the light source too close for the tank, this may lead also to fright and dive bombing for the fries. Probably need to fine tune the amount of light required. Also, I will need to change the paper to ensure that the interiors of the fry tank is black. well, the consoling news is another batch of eggs are on the way. Probably over a hundred of them. The clowns lay 2 days ahead of schedule, guess that affected abit of the eggs count. Anyway, Thursday will be another hatch night. Will post more detailed process of the hatching process then. Do stay tuned. Eggs are at 2 days old now
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Day 2 The saddest part of breeding is it is difficult to avoid casualties. On Day 2, according to many online sources, is supposedly a high mortality period. Well, very true, i have 23 fries dead thus far, and I found 10 just within the Hatch night + 45-48 hours Good news is, this morning when I wake, no more new losses. About 50+ left. Let's hope for the best!
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Haha thanks for reading! Will try to post pictures and video regularly. In a couple of days, I will be starting to hatch baby brine shrimps. Will share a little more about my DIY hatchery and a workable process of successfully separating e BBS from the eggs Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app
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Haha, Andrew is andtsg! I'm Alex
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Day 1Important, and of course most tiring thing, is to ensure good water conditions by changing water daily. So, it is gonna be a daily 5 litres water change with my Main Tank water. Including the addition of sufficient rotifers to keep the fry going. Drawing motivation from them feeding happily. You can noticed them in the video swimming and stopping and curling the tails, that is a sign whenever they eat something
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Hatch Night - Day 0And it is the night, once my lights go out. I have about 30 minutes to 1 hour, before the first fry appears. 2 hours odd for all of the eggs to hatch. So its time to set up my fry tank with newly transferred tank water, so that the fries can adapt easily to the parameters. Added a few essential items!1) A thermometer and a SeaChem Ammonia alert to help me monitor the water parameters easily. 2) To ensure that the tank water don't go over 28 degrees Celsius (Singapore is really hot...) I installed a fan to cool the water down. 3) To ensure optimal light conditions, I have also covered the fry tank with opaque paper, and installed a little LED study lamp. Essentially, just enough light for the clowns to hunt for their food.4) Yup of course, food! So that the fry can start hunting the moment they are added into the fry tank5) Lastly, most importantly, an air stone Next, it is to wait for the moment! I stopped all the return pumps, as the eggs are in my sump/refugium. Armed with a torch and a scoop and 3 hours of my time, I caught about over 80 fries this time round. Not too shabby, considering my next highest count was 13. Worth sleeping at 3.30am for these babies! Here's a vid of the harvest!
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Preparation Phase - Hatch Night Minus A weekThe promising batch of eggs has prompted me, to start my preparation, and I need to ensure that nothing goes wrong this time around.Usually it takes exactly 10 days for my clowns' eggs to hatch. So yup, I hope I did my preparations work well this time around. The toughest thing about breeding I suppose its what to feed the clowns. Usually that is the first challenge of the fries to survice. To find suitable food! Essentially within a few hours, the fries need to feed on rotifers.I have tried a few different methods to established my own stable supply of rotifers. I can't be going to LFS to buy rotifers just to feed the fries. So, I have tried cultivated my own plankton.Well, it din worked well. The plankton crashes too easily. A single bit of contamination, perhaps a stray drop of water with tens of rotifers, will wipe out the entire plankton culture. My home setup is not proficient enough to ensure healthy sustainable supply of plankton.So I found the best solution, that is Reed Mariculture's Rotigrow. Frozen plankton culture that rotifers can eat! And I don't have to worry about contamination anymore. So, I got my culture of rotifers up easily, buying a small batch of rotifers from my LFS and growing it for a week.
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Hatch Night - minus 10 daysAs many know of you may know, on the day, or sometimes, days before the eggs are laid, the mated clowns will be cleaning up the surface that they intend to lay their eggs on by fanning or cleaning the dust/algae etc off with their mouth. Here's a video of my pair of Picassos doing that. Well, its actually a footage from last year. Previously, I had much issues with the low eggs counts, and possibly malnutrition eggs. The clowns usually ended up laying less than 50 eggs, which would have dwindled down to less than 5 by hatch night. The main reason I guess is probably due to insufficient feeding, or the right food. So I up their diet, and fed more of a locally mixed frozen food by one of the LFS.I heard from some other reefers that they need prawn/squid meat to increase the 'stickyness' of the eggs, probably also to ensure that the sacs are nutritious enough for the babies.Thats probably why I guess this attempt, my clowns laid 200 over eggs. Sorry for the poor picture!
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Hi SRC reefers! This is my 3rd attempt at harvesting my clown fish fries. Din worked out very well the first couple of times but I've learnt much from my mistakes. Here's a video of my previous fry feeding on baby brine shrimps. Currently, I still have a 3 month fry still surviving and feeding on pellets. Hopefully this attempt, I will be able to increase the survival rate! I will be documenting this attempt's journey on SRC. Firstly, to record down this exciting journey and consolidate everything I had in a thread and also, to seek advice!! Do feel free to give me any suggestions and feedback to help me improve the survival rate!
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3 blue, 1 purple n 2 coral plusss
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I think more of higher nitrates might be e reason. It was better when I was able to keep it at 1
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Using ati 6x80w dimmable salt wise I think of all those that I have used, I like Red Sea pro more:)
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Haha it's on the other side
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It's been a while since I posted my fts.. Been changing salt n addictives for my tank. Sps suffered a bit of colour loss. Posting my fts, bros help me judge if it's there's really a significant difference?
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Sorry for the late reply. Still figuring out the new layout Also, sorry again, all sold
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Sump looks neat. But u may have to consider an auto top up system as e return pump compartment level is quite low. U have a small allowance for exporation before e water level falls below e minimum mark
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Sorry guys, all reserved :)
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Nitrate is pretty high at 50 for a completed cycle. How do u cycle? Did u just any market prawn or livestocks? Or it's just prodigio? also u may wanna consider a different test kit. Api ones are not very trustworthy
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Price reduced! Left with 1) GSP - $5 2) microclados big colony $70 3) last frag of desalwi $5
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I have no idea. Its an aussie shipment from a while back. Which LFS i have to checked with him again..
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Stag and Xenia sold and collected. left with 1) microclados 2) gsp 3) desalwi
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Hammer and octo can. They can be placed together anytime. Only torch. That's why I left abit of gap between the torches. However e Aussie one I got kinda open up bigger than I thought. Was worried about e chemical warfare with the pink hammer. But ended up they are happy together. Indon one that I had sure will fight.. Maybe cuz it's Aussie
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Perks of a mixed reef tank :)
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Xenia reserved :)
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video of xenia
