Clownfish Fry Raising Journal Update 05/24/12

amazing thread guys, to read through and be with you from day one on this learning curve... absolutely amazing. Looking forward to seeing your success rates rise! As i'm sure you are... Once you have a good number are you going to sell to the LFS? or try to go direct with folks? Hell, you gonna open up a LFS outa your garage????

 

That's hilarious Daniel!

I was going to break the news to her gently at some point before the stuff arrived, but I didn't realize that my account at Marinedepot.com uses a shared email address!! Sooo, when I got the order confirmation email and saw that it went to both of our phones, I sent her a quick text saying "I bought some fish food lol." No sooner than I hit send, she's calling me!

 

I forget why I didn't opt up for the ones rated 40g. They may have not been in stock or i didn't like the price jump between the 30g - 40g. Either way, I still have some learning to do before I need the same filtration power as you, Mr. 300! I think our problem is broodstock diet - which I hope to correct with my plethora of foods that I just purchased - and aeration. When day 8 rolls around, we usually have between 50-100 eggs left on a good clutch and we don't always have the best hatch rates. It would be nice if we can transition our clowns off of laying on/in the skull and onto laying on a pot that we can aerate with a 4" stone from walmart. If you think about it, the shape of a pot is perfect for aeration!

 

Thanks Epsilon!

I wouldn't put any of the above options past us at some point in the future. However, we still have a long way to go before we're even able to cover some of the costs, much less make any profit, with only 1 ocellaris pair and yield rates of 2-15 fry. At least the garage doesn't charge us additional rent! lol

 

True that... Gotta love SB options that don't require a brick and mortar store rental... Though i guess this does require a bit of space of some kind some where.

 

That is too funny... I can just see that happening to me too! Except mine doesn't share the enthusiasm for the hobby that yours does! Yet! hopefully i can keep rubbing off on her.

 

That is just too funny!

 

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I voted!

 

I would but don't have facebook-I know I'm from the stone age.But ya still got my vote!