That terrible damsel layed eggs!!!

I was moving something around and that damn damsel was attacking my hand, well something caught my eye and in the damsels home there was this...



Its more then likely too late to do anything about these because if you look closly you can make out a little body, the blurred part behind the big silvery eyes.

Anybody know anything about raising them?

 

10 gal tank with a sponge filter, looks like theyre about ready to hatch. Ive heard of alot of sucess latley feeding with cycploeze (spelling...?). 2-3 feedings a day with 2 60% water changes every day.....basically the same as clown fish.

 

cycploeeze is the second food. Rotifers are the first. But I am in not prepared for this. If I can get ahold of my buddy matt that raises clowns, I can get some from him hopefully.... If I am able to raise them at a later date and they keep spawning likes this, there is atleast 300 eggs there, so if 50% make it thru the morph phase, thats like 150 damsels...

 

Very cool!

 

They all hatched sometime last night after lights out. Everyone was consumed by the tank in some way... I guess the filter feeders are full now, haha... I spoke to my friend that raises clowns and he said the strain of rotifers that they use is to big for damsel larvae. I cant find any real conclusive info on the net about it. So who knows.

 

hey since i saw this post i just realized my chromis might be laying eggs too. i was doing some maintance on the tank i notice that one of the chromis is cleaning off a piece of the rock never seen them do that before, is that a sign of spawning?? cause i did read up on some clown fish breeding sites they say that one off the fish will prepare for the eggs by cleaning off a piece of rock..... i might be wrong but what do u guys think???

 

Clownfish do that, but I don't know about chromis, thats a different family of fish, damsels and clowns are closely related.

 

hmmm we will see. if anything i probably wont do anything about it .

 

This wasnt the first time that damsel acted like this, so it must be laying eggs pretty frequetly... anybody want some damsel cavier?

 

If you ever set up a tank to spawn them again ? Take some hard boiled egg yolk and squeeze it through a old Panty hose that will get them or any fish I ever bredd up to eating a larger food. But not in the main tank unless you diatom it 24/7 and change some water daily.