Clowns Makin' Babies!

[jschnepf]

Alright well this is the second time my clowns have made babies in the past couple weeks. The first batch the male clown looked to eat most of the little guys within the first few hours. About 2 dozen made it through to the second night. I have no clue what the process is for raising the little ones and i am not ready in the least to take on that challenge right now. If they keep it up every two to three weeks i may try in the future to raise the fry. Is there any chance of survival if i scoop the little ones out and just drop them in my fuge? Mommy and daddy clown are busy fighting off anyone who tries to get close. It pretty awesome to watch them knock down snails, hermits, even my big blue linkia succumbed to the tail beating and retreated. If anyone wants to try and raise them, and has the stuff to catch the fry, the eggs were laid last night about 6pm. I don't know how many days before they hatch, guess i will start researching tonight.

Anyway here is a crapy pic from last night just after they were laid. Looks like pretty much all of them are still there as of now.

[jasonp87]

Awesome looking clutch there. Congrats!

[jkennedy1007]

no chance in fuge
there like keeping a human infant
so needy

QT tank feeding every 2 hours
consistently

mine spawn every 10 days
very good for system as feeders

[dirt-nasty-510]

Where's the pic of mama and daddy

[jschnepf]

Wow, it is really hard to take a pic of them with my iPad with the blue leds on. When the white lights come on I'll get a better one. Mom is an standard and dad is black and white. Not sure what that would make the babies? Best I could do right now...

[dirt-nasty-510]

Wow looks like a pair I sold 2 months ago nice and the babies are so hard to keep it not even funny.

[jschnepf]

Sorry I never posted a better picture of mom and dad. Here they are:




Here is a picture of the eggs tonight, i am starting to see some eyes looking back at me. Tomorrow makes one week

[goof89]

Very cool!

[Sancho]

They will probably hatch tonight or tomorrow. This sounds crazy but take a small pen type flash light shine it on the eggs after your lights have been off for a few hours. Usually after midnight in my tank. If you want to keep them you need a plan for the fry as they become food very fast.

[jschnepf]

Not prepared to raise them this time or next few clutches most likely. Maybe in the future i will try and raise a few batches just for the fun of it. I have been wanting to setup a rodifier culture for general tank feeding and health, but it is down pretty far on the list of things that need to get done. I was thinking of trying to just toss them in the refugium but i don't even have the net necessary to catch them yet. I can see enough tiny things swimming around in my fuge that i know they will have something to eat. I think some of the brine shrimp and large pods in there may eat the fry before the fry can eat them.

[JGregory]

I miss my clown eggs. I had them every two weeks for about 5 years. So much fun to watch.

[jschnepf]

Yeah pretty stoked! Ive had the female for about 7 years and the male for 2-3 years. Lights just went out so gonna go see if anything happens.

[jschnepf]

So my clowns have been going at it like clockwork every two weeks. I have my skimmer drain into a 5 gallon container and that was working great, but a few weeks ago i walked into my garage to the wonderful odor of skimmate overflowed all over the place. Wasn't sure if i had just waited to long to dump the container, but i put a float switch in the container to turn off the skimmer if it got full and figured problem solved.

Well this week i figured out the culprit. Apparently when my clown do the deed the skimmer goes nuts. Anyone else experience this? Just checking to see if this is normal or my little guy is a sperm whale in disguise. Took a pic of the skimmer just because i was amazed at what i saw.

[jkennedy1007]