So I Thought Fish Eggs are Orange

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I always think that fish eggs are orange in color even though some are black. Today, I found the eggs of the clown fish is cloudy translucent and "black". Then I realized those are the eyes.

Note the area marked in RED. Zoom in and you can see the eyes.

 

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Both parents put the mouth/nose among the patch of eggs as if they want to sniff them or caress them.

 

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Both Parent Guard the Babies

Both Parents Guard the Babies but not as aggressive as Cichlids. Cichilds could chase intruders all across a 6' tank.

 

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Intruder Defeated

A Mexican Turbo wanders into the protected area and got beaten up.

 

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All pics done,
Feel free to comment.

 

[EmilyT]

congrats on the eggs!

 

[noodleman]

the eggs were orange

 

[aaron23]

wonderful pictures wingo thanks for sharing

 

[KathyC]

Sweet Wingo.. Congrats! What size is the tank & do you think they will be able to raise them in there...any other fish?

Nice Goni btw

 

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Sweet Wingo.. Congrats! What size is the tank & do you think they will be able to raise them in there...any other fish?

Nice Goni btw

It's a 269G, I hope some of them can grow up. But I guess it will be hard because this tank does not have the complete-eco-system setup like what I use to do with my 55G. The babies need small food and small live food need even smaller live food.
"any other fish?" There are too many fish but it's good that other fish seem not going after them.

The goni is more than 2 years old and has sometimes grown bigger and then smaller and then bigger again-I am talking about the whole colony not just the polyps.

 

[KathyC]

269g? Nice!
Have a FTS?
Best of luck with the little ones! :biggrin:

 

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These are the tankmates(pis taken when the tank first started up) The chromis are now like double the size. All engineering gobies(not shown in pics are not in the adult form/color pattern and the angle is at least 1" to 1.5" longer.

Note the Goni at lower right of the first pic and the lower left of the second pic. that's where th clowns making their nest and hmmm making their love.

 

[tsinkoy]

The parent clownfish put the eggs in their mouths to clean them. Take out debris that may cause the eggs to rupture or become not viable.

Eggs vary in color. The zebrafish eggs I worked with in my last laboratory had clear chorions (the egg sac), and you can see the fertilized egg develop from one cell stage to when they hatch.

 

[EmilyT]

as we all know, finding nemo can be misleading.....
tang and puffer in a ten gal...
orange and red eggs...

 

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The parent clownfish put the eggs in their mouths to clean them. Take out debris that may cause the eggs to rupture or become not viable.

Eggs vary in color. The zebrafish eggs I worked with in my last laboratory had clear chorions (the egg sac), and you can see the fertilized egg develop from one cell stage to when they hatch.

Are you working with the genetically altered ones?

 

[Phyl]

Clown eggs start out orange and over a few days turn to that silver color. Most people who want to try to raise the fry will remove them from the tank as they hatch (on day 11-14 depending on your tank temperature). My clowns were laying eggs ever 14 days on the button and on the 11th day the clutch would hatch. This typically happens at/just after lights out.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Clown eggs start out orange and over a few days turn to that silver color. Most people who want to try to raise the fry will remove them from the tank as they hatch (on day 11-14 depending on your tank temperature). My clowns were laying eggs ever 14 days on the button and on the 11th day the clutch would hatch. This typically happens at/just after lights out.

Thanks for the info. Next time I will keep clowns in shallow water.
I wish I can get hands there or my net stable enough to catch them. The tank is 40" high.

 

[Phyl]

When the lights are dark, you can (supposedly) shine a flashlight near the surface and they'll swim towards the light. You should be able to net them or siphon them out that way. Of course timing is a real bugger. You'd ideally have the flow off so that they didn't get sucked down the overflow. They don't fare so well from the trip as they're very delicate at this stage. I never did manage this.

If you manage to scoop/siphon any out you'll want to make sure that the new tank is covered on all 4 sides so that there is no light coming from the sides. I guess their tendancy to swim towards the light can be fatal otherwise.

 

[tsinkoy]

Are you working with the genetically altered ones?

Yes and no. I worked with both wild-type and transgenic fish. The transgenic fish were either well-characterized for the foreign genes they were expressing, or were being genotyped for it.

 

[cb747]

On hatch night what i used to do is tape a led light on the tank. As they hatch they swim towards the light. Right where the LED was taped to the tank id have a U tube which would suck them out and deposit them into a 5 gallon tank. I had a coffee strainer glued to a cut 2 liter bottle and dropped a small powerhead inside it to return the water into the tank and not harming the fry in the process. I highly recomend getting Joyce Wilkersons book on clowns. Also if you dont have rotifers they will not live. Good luck with them and keep an eye on your clowns. They spawn like clock work and the egghs will hatch live clock work as well. Right after lights out