Clownfish laid eggs and cleaner shrimp found dead.

[slideways03]

So i get home from work today to find 1 of my 2 cleaner shrimp dead beneath my rose bubble tip nem. I was dumbfounded by this and upon looking around the tank i found that my pair of Snow Onyx clowns had laid eggs next to the anemone. I was pissed my cleaner shrimp was dead but once i realize what had happend i was thrilled. The Clowns are now guarding the eggs. I would like to try and hatch the eggs but i have no idea what to do from here. I do have a established 5 gallon tank up and running with 1 purple firefish and some mushrooms. Should i move the eggs to that tank? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

From what i understand meeting the food requirements for newly hatched clowns is not easy. Any help will be appreciated. Thank You!

 

[SteveZ15]

Look on you tube there are some cool vids of breeding clownfish

 

[eazy al]

That's great you could check a thread out on nanoreef there's a thread the guys name is pickle great thread he explain it a way you can understand, go to the breeding thread and ask away,no question is a stupid question,or go to mbi( marine breeder initiative) or pm me n ill let you know the little I learned reading,asking,n experimenting good luck ,any pics of the pair??

 

[George]

Most people don't know that we have a (well hidden) forum right here on MR on breeding fish!
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/fish-breeding/

Start by reading all the posts by Wesley.

Another great resource is the MBI site (Marine Breeders Initiative) run by Tal Sweet, a frequent contributor to Reefs.com. Lots of great people there who are more than willing to answer your questions.
http://www.mbisite.org/

HTH, and Good Luck! We all need to support marine captive breeding, whether it's "designer clowns," Seahorses (my thing), or more common marine fish.

George
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[slideways03]

That's great you could check a thread out on nanoreef there's a thread the guys name is pickle great thread he explain it a way you can understand, go to the breeding thread and ask away,no question is a stupid question,or go to mbi( marine breeder initiative) or pm me n ill let you know the little I learned reading,asking,n experimenting good luck ,any pics of the pair??

Dont have any photos of the pair but here is a video of my tank on youtube. You can see the pair at the beginning of the video.

http://youtu.be/rEBukHqiRfU

 

[eazy al]

Man those are some real nice snowonyx ,are those s.A or ora?

 

[felix tesler]

good luck its a full time job to raise eggs

 

[eazy al]

You can get your starter kit from reeds mariculture, rotifers,otihime,rgcomplete,etc...you will need this food for your larvae,sponge filters,heater,airstones,air pumps,ammonia batch,prime for ammonia control n other foods,I'm forgetting,freshly hatch brine shrimp .

 

[slideways03]

Thank you for the replies. I look forward to this challenge. I am def. going to make an effort to try and hatch and raise some of these clowns. Although i know it will take lots of effort, it will be very awarding if i can pull it off. I learned a lot in the past few hours researching this.

As for the snow onyx clowns i actually purchased them on ebay 14 months ago from "coralsoftheworld1". Took them forever to pair up.

 

[eazy al]

How big are they?

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

1)mark the date you assume they laid the eggs and count the harvest days. Follow what the web says
2)start couple cultures of roti. You can buy the starter and grow them or ask someone to donate a starter amount.
3)BUY food for roti. You can ask for a donation of the food starter but unless you know how to grow this food well, most likely you will end up going to buy the concentrate. Roti need a lot of green water to feed and in general, not much people can keep up with it.
4)Cycle a rearing tank now and follow what the web says.
5)First batch yield could be lower. My very first batch 5 6 years ago, the yield was like 70-80 fish. But then the yield slowly grow higher, even up to 200-300 a time.
6)Inconsistent food supply and water quality will be your biggest enemy.

BTW, since the name has a portion of Snowflake, and a portion Onyx in it, did the seller inform you that whether they are hybrids of Ocellaris and True Perc or not. If so, these will be very similar to Smorcularis of MR.

 

[slideways03]

How big are they?

Female is around 3 inches and the male is a tad smaller. They used to fight like crazy for about the first 3 or 4 months, then they kind of seperated and one took host in a colt coral and the other stayed in the rose nem. I later moved the colt coral off the sand bed and the clown moved to a green bubble tip i had in the tank. During the power outage from hurricane sandy i lost the green bubble tip and both clowns shared the rose bubble tip with no fighting.

 

[eazy al]

Like I said if you have questions pm me, n ill link you n give you info ,not a bother at all I enjoy this stuff .