Nursery tank is a 10 gal. tank with heater and air stone going (temp @78 degrees), (air at moderate bubbles). Feeding Fry with rotifers that are fed with Nannoplanktin and Roti-Rich. At first we were filling the tank to about 3" from the top. Didn't do that with this batch as I read on this site that the tank shouldn't be over half full. We siphon the babies out of the main tank with a siphon hose. My husband is wondering if they aren't being beaten up by this process. Seems like they are swimming and moving with so much energy in tank after they are born, then after we siphon them into buckets and then siphon them again from the bucket into the nursery tank, soon we see a lot of them dead on the bottom of nursery tank. Had batch born two nights ago and the rest hatched last night and added them to the nursery tank. I would say we have about 25-30 that are still living right now. I feed them every 2-3 hours. Do you have to get up during the night to feed them? Cyclop-eeze are a selectively bred biologically engineered micro-crustacean, cultured from a shallow, pristine, arctic salt lake in Canada that contain extremely high concentrations of the critical biological pigment astaxanthene. It's a highly nutritious and desirable food for both freshwater and saltwater fish and an excellent food to feed to coral and other filter feeding reef inhabitants. We put this in our two tanks twice a day. I believe our tanks are in good condition and our fish are healthy. I don't know what we are doing wrong, but we are getting frustrated and ready to give up on trying to raise these babies, as this is our 9th batch we are on right now. Can't believe how much our clowns reproduce. No sooner the eggs hatch and three days later they are laying another batch of eggs. I sure hope you can give us some tips towards succeeding in this endeavor. By the way, we raise our own rotifers. Thank you so much for your time and look forward to hearing from you.
