Eggs, I have Eggs !!!

OK, so just a short while after my GBT splitting into two, now I have clown eggs. Kinda cool to watch them protect them.

Here is a photo if you can see it. By the nose of the female.
It looks like they stucj the eggs to a patch on the back wall.

Not sure how long they have ben there exactly, but within a day or two I suspect. I have been reading on what to do for care and it seemes that I may have a problem cause they are all stuck to the wall and not on a roock I can remove.

Any advise on how to save them ??




Cheers

 

How cool. My shrimp keeps having eggs. Razor blade the glass? I'd just let em go. Good coral food.

 

Food!!
My first Fry I would like to see how long it goes..
I suspect they will get sucked into the filtration or eaten, I certainly dont need to help that process.

Looking for advice more along the lines of saving them...


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There is no way to save them really, when someone has clownfish who lays eggs, you have to put them in a separate tank, and feed them rotifers, and do all this other stuff.

 

Eggz are gone..
the Anemone expanded up over them and wiped them out.
The clows look bumbed.

I put a rock in the corner where they hide so if they try again they would use that and now the wall, maybe next time...

 

Congradulatins;D

I am curious as to how old your clowns are and type. Unfortunately raising clown fry takes months of advanced planning. I would keep on eye out as once the pair begins to lay it may be become routine. Also it is not uncommon for the male to eat the eggs, he just knows if something is wrong or conditions are not right and it is like practice for him.
Even though you may not rear any of the fry in the future it is still exciting. There is a lot of imformation on breeding clownfish out there. Joyce Wilkerson's book Clownfish is an excellent resource.

 

Update

So the original batch never made it. They were hatched close to the GBT and when it expanded it consuned them.

The clowns have since tried 4 more times, each time the same fate.
They are certainly busy,,,

I tried putting in something for them to attach to but they are fixated on this spot, which is just to close o the GBT.


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Kinda a hard spot to try to protect them. Could you make a small protector/housing out of egg crate so nothing can get to them, but water flow can still get there?

 

I was thinking the same thing....
Maybe try that before they get sucked up again...

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On the night of the hatch, about 7-9 ( up to day 11 temperature dependent) you wait and watch, turn off pumps, place a flash light beam somewhere near the top of the water column, they will gather there as they hatch and you syphon them out.

And that is the easy part. Next they have to go into a grow out tank, that only has a heater and simple airline and airstone. It has to be cycled and all sides covered with black papper, otherwise the fry will be attracted to the light and not eat.

Next come the rotifers, they are almost harder to culture than the fry. After going through this process roughly 50 or so times you get enough experience to actully raise the fry.

It's hard work and frutration, but very rewarding if you get to the point you got juvenile clowns to show for it.