Clownfish larvae (updated through week 9 on page 3)
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Well I think I am over the nitrate fiasco but it cost me almost half of the combined batch 1 and 2. 
I am probably down to 200 to 250 total from the first 2 batches with the bulk of the ones that made it seem to be from the 1st batch.
The first batch is 33 days old! I guess I need to start thinking about moving them to one of the 25's I have out in the garage.
Here's the latest pic. They kind of remind me of a big scrum in rugby.
The road isn't over yet, but hopefully I'm through the worst of the nitrites. I ended up doing 2 - 66%+ waterchanges back to back to knock them back to livable conditions for the fry. Been testing since and may end up doing another big waterchange tomorrow.
Batch 3 is almost ready to morph and Batch 4 is a few days away from hatching out!
FWIW, Nathan
P.S. - Baalz has been very helpful in getting me going and has given me some great advice in mIRC. There is no substitute for real life experience in raising clownfish!
I am probably down to 200 to 250 total from the first 2 batches with the bulk of the ones that made it seem to be from the 1st batch.
The first batch is 33 days old! I guess I need to start thinking about moving them to one of the 25's I have out in the garage.
Here's the latest pic. They kind of remind me of a big scrum in rugby.
The road isn't over yet, but hopefully I'm through the worst of the nitrites. I ended up doing 2 - 66%+ waterchanges back to back to knock them back to livable conditions for the fry. Been testing since and may end up doing another big waterchange tomorrow.
Batch 3 is almost ready to morph and Batch 4 is a few days away from hatching out!
FWIW, Nathan
P.S. - Baalz has been very helpful in getting me going and has given me some great advice in mIRC. There is no substitute for real life experience in raising clownfish!
Update - It's been just over 6 weeks. I had some losses last weekend when I was impatient moving them out into the garage and siphoned some of them out with a larger diameter tubing and it was a bit to much on some of them. I have to keep reminding myself how fragile they are. Since them I haven't lost any. They are eating pretty much anything they can fit in their mouths now. The largest ones are getting close to 1/2" now.
Here are some pics:
And here is the new ghetto reefer setup in my garage:
FWIW, Nathan
Here are some pics:
And here is the new ghetto reefer setup in my garage:
FWIW, Nathan
I've been using a sponge filter and lots of water changes since they morphed.
I just added an aquaclear hang on powerfilter with some bioball type things in it this weekend. I'm using the units rated for a 50 gallon tank. I have 4 more of the acrylic 25 gallon tanks from the last petsmart remodeling job (got them for $10 each with bulkheads).
I have a remora pro hang on protein skimmer that I may fire up on it here before too long.
FWIW, Nathan
I just added an aquaclear hang on powerfilter with some bioball type things in it this weekend. I'm using the units rated for a 50 gallon tank. I have 4 more of the acrylic 25 gallon tanks from the last petsmart remodeling job (got them for $10 each with bulkheads).
I have a remora pro hang on protein skimmer that I may fire up on it here before too long.
FWIW, Nathan
Nathan, have you ever considered setting up a couple more tanks placing assortment of anemones in with them and get them to associate anemone?
Think of product differenciation....... "Condylactis loving percula", "BTA loving percula", "ritterri loving percula"..........
Think of product differenciation....... "Condylactis loving percula", "BTA loving percula", "ritterri loving percula"..........
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