Not sure what to do. Didn't even notice where they have laid the eggs. But they have been doin the dance a few months now. Came home tonight to see all these little fry clowns all over the tank. Don't know what to do I'm a newbie.
My snowflakes had babies / what do I do
- Thread starter Sanchez2896
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- Location
- Woodhaven, NY
You got two choices, you can move the fry by themselves to a smaller tank [a good ol' 5-10 gallon will do]; or you can try your luck by leaving them there. You gonna need some fry food, depending on their size it would be either rotifers or baby brine shrimp will do the trick. You can hatch both of them quite easily, just need to google "DIY brine shrimp hatching", "DIY rotifer hatching".
Some LFS have "fry food", but that is usually for freshwater; I wouldn't suggest you trying it if you did not move the fry to the separate tank.
Good luck!
Some LFS have "fry food", but that is usually for freshwater; I wouldn't suggest you trying it if you did not move the fry to the separate tank.
Good luck!
- Location
- Wheatley Heights, NY (long island)
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- New York
Wow, NICE!
- Location
- 10022
congratulations!
sadly you can say you have live plankton in your tank
sadly you can say you have live plankton in your tank
- Location
- Queens, NY
I've tried to raise fry that small (sexy shrimps) but can't get them past 10 or 14 days, due to feeding and water quality problems in the rearing tank.
Currently my molly miller blenny's are laying eggs continuously in my reef system, but separating them into a different tank without a reliable food source and effective filtering wouldn't work.
If I wanted to really try to get my a few of my blenny fry to settle out, I would have to remove all predators (including all stinging corals and other fish) and feed live phytoplankton, making the water green, which would feed the food chain upwards and hopefully provide enough larger zooplankton to get the fry large enough to consume baby brine shrimp. Not really worth the effort, but not impossible. I've read people posting about random survival of fry in their tanks.
The only success I've had are with cardinals, which are the easiest to raise since they come out big enough to eat baby brine. Even this was a major chore as I had to raise 2 batches of brine shrimp a day, one for the morning feeding and the other for the evening. Each batch was started 12 hours apart and also needed to be enriched for a day, so if I recall, I had 4 2L bottles of bubbling water going constantly for 2 months, until I got them onto dried food.
Currently my molly miller blenny's are laying eggs continuously in my reef system, but separating them into a different tank without a reliable food source and effective filtering wouldn't work.
If I wanted to really try to get my a few of my blenny fry to settle out, I would have to remove all predators (including all stinging corals and other fish) and feed live phytoplankton, making the water green, which would feed the food chain upwards and hopefully provide enough larger zooplankton to get the fry large enough to consume baby brine shrimp. Not really worth the effort, but not impossible. I've read people posting about random survival of fry in their tanks.
The only success I've had are with cardinals, which are the easiest to raise since they come out big enough to eat baby brine. Even this was a major chore as I had to raise 2 batches of brine shrimp a day, one for the morning feeding and the other for the evening. Each batch was started 12 hours apart and also needed to be enriched for a day, so if I recall, I had 4 2L bottles of bubbling water going constantly for 2 months, until I got them onto dried food.
- Location
- Huntington
If you need to remove fish larvae efficiently and safely, Chad Vossen makes a larval collector that a lot of well known breeders use.
http://reefbuilders.com/2013/11/25/unboxing-vossen-aquatics-larval-snagger/
As for raising the fry, I would suggest ignoring anyone trying to tell you it's easy and to feed "fry food". That's not even close to accurate. Do a google search on raising clownfish and you'll find a large amount of info from reliable breeders out there. It's pretty involved and a little much to be explained in a simple post.
http://reefbuilders.com/2013/11/25/unboxing-vossen-aquatics-larval-snagger/
As for raising the fry, I would suggest ignoring anyone trying to tell you it's easy and to feed "fry food". That's not even close to accurate. Do a google search on raising clownfish and you'll find a large amount of info from reliable breeders out there. It's pretty involved and a little much to be explained in a simple post.
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