Saddle back eggs

keytoor

New Member
Hi everyone.
I've been lurking around the boards for a while, and I've finally got something worth posting about...
Last night, my father noticed that the smaller of the two clowns in one of the 58 gallon tanks cleared off a space on the bottom of the tank next to a large shell. When I got home this afternoon, I noticed that there were a couple hundred eggs inside the shell. Though both clown fish were nearby, they allowed me to take a peek before swimming back over to hover within the shell. They share the tank with a hippo tang and a foxface as well as many invertebrates.
My questions to you guys are... is there anything I should do in particular for them? Should I just assume that someone's going to eat the eggs, or is there actually the possibility that I could see baby clowns at some point? If the latter is at all reasonable, around how long do the eggs take to, for lack of a better word, hatch?
I did do a search for anything relating to eggs, and mostly came up with shark egg posts. So, I'd appreciate any responses.
Thanks.
 

aceiswild7

Member
quick get to your lfs ask themto oxygenate a bag and ship all of the babies to me ill pay shipping since im a nice guy ..
realisticly though i think you might want to seperate them they make cantainers for bettas or quarintine you can hang on the side or if you wantto go crazy get a pet pal container and drop it in the tank and put the shell in and let the parents stay in it. that will at least protectthem until they hatch .. once they do you will need to supplement the tank with plankton so they can grow but i think seperation is best.. i have noexperience in it though so wait for a pro to say
good luck
 
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