clownfish larvae
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neoreef
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Originally Posted by Bang Guy
Black oil pans floating in the lagoon for egg hatching & clownfish larvae. 32 gallon roughneck for fry growout up to 1/2".
10 gallon tanks for Banggai and Clownfish growout from 1/2" to saleable size.
I Ocellaris pair, one PJ Cardinalfish pair and one Banggai pair in my display tank (155), 2 Ocellaris pair, one PJ Cardinalfish pair, 5 Banggai pair, and a Maroon pair in the Lagoon, and another Maroon pair in a 29 gallon.
How many oil pans would that be? You have 13 pairs!
What if they all spawned at the same time! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! That's a lot of rotifers!
Black oil pans floating in the lagoon for egg hatching & clownfish larvae. 32 gallon roughneck for fry growout up to 1/2".
10 gallon tanks for Banggai and Clownfish growout from 1/2" to saleable size.
I Ocellaris pair, one PJ Cardinalfish pair and one Banggai pair in my display tank (155), 2 Ocellaris pair, one PJ Cardinalfish pair, 5 Banggai pair, and a Maroon pair in the Lagoon, and another Maroon pair in a 29 gallon.
How many oil pans would that be? You have 13 pairs!
What if they all spawned at the same time! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! That's a lot of rotifers!
neoreef
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After this batch, it was a good six months before I got to try again. I had about 17 survivors. Then I had about 3 hatches in a row, and I had built a system to handle the larval/grow out phases. Then my own clownfish started spawning every 11 days with huge nests that I captured after hatching. I suddenly had hundreds of larvae to work with and had practiced the techniques and had some great success, averaging around 200 survivors per hatch.
Then the power went out for 4.5 days and I had to move my spawning pair to the basement so they would not boil. They have not started spawning again, so I am waiting impatiently. Meanwhile I have about 800 juveniles in 90 gallons of very clean water in my basement. I will see if I can post some pix.
Bang Guy, how are yours doing? Having any troubles? I had a spate of post metamorphosis deaths, but with better filtration, I think those days are over.
Cheers,
Kathy
After this batch, it was a good six months before I got to try again. I had about 17 survivors. Then I had about 3 hatches in a row, and I had built a system to handle the larval/grow out phases. Then my own clownfish started spawning every 11 days with huge nests that I captured after hatching. I suddenly had hundreds of larvae to work with and had practiced the techniques and had some great success, averaging around 200 survivors per hatch.
Then the power went out for 4.5 days and I had to move my spawning pair to the basement so they would not boil. They have not started spawning again, so I am waiting impatiently. Meanwhile I have about 800 juveniles in 90 gallons of very clean water in my basement. I will see if I can post some pix.
Bang Guy, how are yours doing? Having any troubles? I had a spate of post metamorphosis deaths, but with better filtration, I think those days are over.
Cheers,
Kathy
imurnamine
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Awwww! Cute babies! <3
bang guy
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Originally Posted by neoreef
Bang Guy, how are yours doing? Having any troubles? I had a spate of post metamorphosis deaths, but with better filtration, I think those days are over.
Cheers,
Kathy
I usually only have troubles before they morph into fish. Are they going to a different container after they morph? How are you transporting them?
Also, I've found that a bit of circular current in the grow out tanks make them stronger and they also seem to eat more.
Bang Guy, how are yours doing? Having any troubles? I had a spate of post metamorphosis deaths, but with better filtration, I think those days are over.
Cheers,
Kathy
I usually only have troubles before they morph into fish. Are they going to a different container after they morph? How are you transporting them?
Also, I've found that a bit of circular current in the grow out tanks make them stronger and they also seem to eat more.
neoreef
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My larval tanks are simply my grow out tanks, unconnected to the grow out system.I do not transfer them to grow them out. I start the larvae in a 10 or 20 gallon tank in 5 gallons of 35ppt water that has been bleached (as well as the tank) and dechlorinated, heated to 84 degrees and with an airbar under the heater. I put another airstone in the body of the tank. With rotifers and live phytoplankton they metamorphosize starting in 6 days from hatching. I siphon the bottom daily and drip water to dilute the salt to 27 ppt in the first 24 hours, then keep on top of water changes, etc, with slow drips. By day 11-14 if ammonia is starting to rise, I turn on the system water which comes from a pipe and ball valve situated above the tank. The tanks have an overflow with bridal veil screen to keep the babies in. At a slow drip, there is no suction to pull the babies to the overflow and they stay away from it typically.
The water drains to a 100 micron filter, a PURA filter, a container of bioballs, and a small sump with more bioballs. It gets pumped thru a 40 watt UV before hitting the tanks.
As they get bigger, I turn on more of the system water, and they grow up in the tank they started in. I start them on newly hatched decapsulated artemia on day 5 or 6, and dry food a day or two later. I keep up with the artemia for a couple of weeks. I stop feeding rotifers when I put them on system water. I use automatic feeders to feed them dry food 3 times daily.
My sump has an auto top off and an overflow to simplify water changes, which I do weekly, 25%.
Once a day, I siphon the poop and refill the feeders and change the 100 micron filter.
There is an idea going around the fish breeding forum at -- that keeping lots of clownfish in the same tanks over and over produces a substance that is toxic to future clownfish inhabitants. Various descriptions of "toxic tank" syndrome have been reported. I was just wondering if you had experienced it. I had some post meta death before I tried the PURA filter, and probably I am maxed out in fish density at 7-800 in 90 little gallons. Not sure mine was the toxic tank thing, but just wanted to see how you were faring.
Interesting about the current idea. I have little current in my 5 tanks. Worth an experiment.....hmmm.
The water drains to a 100 micron filter, a PURA filter, a container of bioballs, and a small sump with more bioballs. It gets pumped thru a 40 watt UV before hitting the tanks.
As they get bigger, I turn on more of the system water, and they grow up in the tank they started in. I start them on newly hatched decapsulated artemia on day 5 or 6, and dry food a day or two later. I keep up with the artemia for a couple of weeks. I stop feeding rotifers when I put them on system water. I use automatic feeders to feed them dry food 3 times daily.
My sump has an auto top off and an overflow to simplify water changes, which I do weekly, 25%.
Once a day, I siphon the poop and refill the feeders and change the 100 micron filter.
There is an idea going around the fish breeding forum at -- that keeping lots of clownfish in the same tanks over and over produces a substance that is toxic to future clownfish inhabitants. Various descriptions of "toxic tank" syndrome have been reported. I was just wondering if you had experienced it. I had some post meta death before I tried the PURA filter, and probably I am maxed out in fish density at 7-800 in 90 little gallons. Not sure mine was the toxic tank thing, but just wanted to see how you were faring.
Interesting about the current idea. I have little current in my 5 tanks. Worth an experiment.....hmmm.
bang guy
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Originally Posted by neoreef
There is an idea going around the fish breeding forum at -- that keeping lots of clownfish in the same tanks over and over produces a substance that is toxic to future clownfish inhabitants. Various descriptions of "toxic tank" syndrome have been reported. I was just wondering if you had experienced it. I had some post meta death before I tried the PURA filter, and probably I am maxed out in fish density at 7-800 in 90 little gallons. Not sure mine was the toxic tank thing, but just wanted to see how you were faring.
Interesting about the current idea. I have little current in my 5 tanks. Worth an experiment.....hmmm.
Can you send me an e-mail to guynwarsaw@yahoo.com? I'd like more info on toxic tank...
There is an idea going around the fish breeding forum at -- that keeping lots of clownfish in the same tanks over and over produces a substance that is toxic to future clownfish inhabitants. Various descriptions of "toxic tank" syndrome have been reported. I was just wondering if you had experienced it. I had some post meta death before I tried the PURA filter, and probably I am maxed out in fish density at 7-800 in 90 little gallons. Not sure mine was the toxic tank thing, but just wanted to see how you were faring.
Interesting about the current idea. I have little current in my 5 tanks. Worth an experiment.....hmmm.
Can you send me an e-mail to guynwarsaw@yahoo.com? I'd like more info on toxic tank...