Help! Please! Eggs!!

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Ok. Yesterday I noticed an orange spot on the rock just below my anemone. I guess I'm slow cause I was thinking corraline algae(as I have it in many colors). Today while feeding, I took a closer look.

Clownfish eggs! Woo-hoo!!

Oh and

So, I'm thinking lots of things. First, it's on rock with very large lta. I have a 10g. Is this small enough? If I set this up with DT water and live rock, can I avoid a cycle and move the eggs right in?? How am I gonna get that anemone off the rock?? Can I move the nem with the eggs(if he will fit in 10g) and put it back after eggs hatch?? Clowns are super attached to this nem. Can I move the clowns to small tank also??( still assuming the nem would be ok in this small area for a couple of days)
Maybe I can chisel the section of rock with eggs from rest of rock??
I've heard they will hatch in about a week, if this is true, do I have time to set up to breed rotifers? How long will they require rotifers? Can I just buy a bottle or 2 and feed them from this or do I really need to be breeding them??
Should I just let this batch become food and get ready for the next?? Hate to let that happen, but I am not really ready.
How long does it generally take before they lay again??
Is that enough questions for now?? lol
I know, buy a book! lol
Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks!
 
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Thanks, T! I have seen that thread before but couldn't find it. Gonna go to the lfs tomorrow. Don't know if I have time to order and batch rotifers. Also, the only things I have right now for this are a 10g tank and an air pump. So, not sure if I'm gonna be able to raise this batch. Would very much like to try. That's why I'm looking for advice on shortcuts(like maybe buying rotifers) Not out of laziness, but I believe they will hatch in about 5 days.

Does that give me time to grow my own food, assuming the lfs has some and I don't have to order them?? Does anyone know??
 
h4rk3r

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good luck with the raising of the fry... I hear it takes a lot of work to keep them healthy...
 
pagano24

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iI just paired my maroons yesterday, it took so long. But how long did it take for your pair to lay eggs? How does yours act together as a pair?
 
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Originally Posted by pagano24
http:///forum/post/3112399
iI just paired my maroons yesterday, it took so long. But how long did it take for your pair to lay eggs? How does yours act together as a pair?
Well, I was lucky enough to get the pair with anemone from a fellow hobbyist who was moving to FL and selling all his fish, etc.
I've had them for about a year and had given up on them reproducing. Recently noticed the larger(female) was being aggressive (or so I thought) to the male and......now I have eggs. Not much help, but that's how it happened for me!
 
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Originally Posted by nissan577
http:///forum/post/3112394
I wish your problem fixes!
you said if i post here i gain my chances on winning!
That's right nissan! Have to keep posting to win!
 
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Does anyone know just how bad it is to expose these eggs to air??
I have tried many things to move this rock with anemone and eggs and I just can't do it! The rock is too big to fit in anything that will allow me to pull it out of my 125g and then place it in a 10g without any air exposure!!
I don't think it would be more than 15 sec. to pull from one to other. Will this kill the eggs??
Any suggestions??
 
louti

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From everything I've read, you cannot expose them to air at all. If the rock they're on can't be removed, you can siphon out the larvae as soon as they hatch.
 
rod buehle

rod buehle

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when I pull my eggs from their parents, I walk across a 20 foot room with them exposed to air.. I have succesfully raised thousands. I do dont waste a lot of time and stop for a coffee break and let the eggs dry or anything, but I do expose them. I have even exposed the eggs when only half of the clutch hatches on the first night while doing a water change on the first half, leaving the second half exposed for a good 10 minutes. I didnt think that those eggs would survuve, but they did and hatched that night. I dont think I have ever read that they cant be exposed at all.
 
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Very cool, I will be moving them tonite. I expect they will hatch sometime this weekend. Maybe tonite!
 
rod buehle

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Thanks bang guy
step 1. Make sure your rotifers are going well before thinking too hard about pulling the eggs, If you dont have the food to feed the larva, they will die, and you will be discouraged. take the time to get the rotifers going well, study gestation and spawning frequencies. Slip a tile in place where they spawn. They will spawn on the tile which make it very simple to move at hatching time.
I set up a sterile tank on the day of hatch/transfer. You dont want live rock in the hatch/larval tank (too many critters that will eat the larva). I do you water from the parent tank, but not for bacteria/cycling purpose, but more so for temp and pH. Nothing but a heater and an air line. I use 2 air lines with a soft flow. One under the heater, and one under the eggs with the bubbles passing over the eggs (surrogate father).
most species have about a 7 day gestation depending on temp A few species go much earlier. In the winter, some of mine go 8-9.
What type of clowns are you dealing with?
When I transfer my eggs, my 5 gallon hatch tank is nearly full. An air stone under the heater . I prop the tile up with an upper corner of the tile leaning against the end of the tank at a slight angle with the eggs on the underside of that slight angle, and an air stone under the eggs with the bubbles lightly passing over the eggs. a suction cup stuck to the bottom of the tank will help keep the tile from sliding.
I add the rotifers right after I Xfer the eggs. I also toss in a little phyto to keep the rotifers nutritional.
The next morning, siphon out almost ALL of the hatching water, but I do it through my rotifer sieve so that I dont siphon out the larva, nor the rotifers. (unplug heater first)
then add water back to the 5 gallon, but only a gallon or 2 (just to cover the heater so you can plug it back in). I shine a flashlight through the bottom to see the rotifer density. You shouldnt need to add more yet, because the larva hast eaten any yet. after the water change is complete, I tint the water green with phyto. green enough so that I can barely see the babies. this will keep the rotifers nutritional enough, and also keep the fry in the center of the tank hunting for food, instead of having their noses stuck to the sides of the tank ( a depth perception thing)..
If you get this far, then we can continue
 
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Bummer, but I think they died. Not sure what happened, but according to your last post, I did everything wrong.
Set up tank last week, put sand and live rock from DT. Just cut holes in air line as I read somewhere to do bigger bubbles. Bubbles not hitting eggs. Right next to them so water flow hopefully hit them. So, if temp is suppoesd to be 81 degrees, that was the only thing I got right.
I did get rotifers from someone local, but I think I lost them, too. Did'nt have my own green water, so I fed them DT's phyto. Also, used water from tank to rots. (just learned that was a bad idea)
Gonna leave them in the hatching tank one more nite too see what happens, but this morning the eggs looked cloudy and had a film over them which I got off by swishing my finger next to them, but pretty sure they are dead.

Maybe I'll do better next time, this batch snuck up on me and I was'nt prepared.
Thanks for all the advice, will be looking for more.
 
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