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go ML, you are able to find rotifers there.

happy reefing

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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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Guess you won't be able to start up a rotifer culture in time. Your best bet is to find a friend or someone close to purchase or get rotifers from if not it'll be real expensive supplying them rotifers throughout their larval stage.

I'm not that sure about the stage of development clownfish larvae will be at when they hatch from the egg. Assuming they still have their yolk reserves and they appear like salmon larvae that just hatched (non-swimming stage), they probably won't begin feeding till probably 24 hrs or more later. Just start feeding them when they begin to swim. Not sure if they require smaller sized rotifers, in which case normal rotifers will be too large. Even if you do manage to obtain the rotifers, you must make sure you enrich them sufficiently with the appropriate algae species. Good choices would be Isochrysis, Chaetoceros, Pavlova. Rotifers cultured solely on Nannochloropsis oculata do very well but unfortunately won't have enough HUFA content to get the larvae through metamorphosis. Green flagellates in general are not used to enrich live feeds due to their low nutritional content. An alternative enrichment would be emulsions of formulations like Selco. However, you might experience oily surfaces in your larval rearing tank which is'nt really desirable.

You could pm marinebetta..he has experience in this aspect. He might be able to help if he is'nt too busy with work.

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