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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / November 2007Raising Clown fry
How hard is this? Has anybody tried it? --Kurt Hi.. > How hard is this? Well in my mind not harder than raising Discus.. > Has anybody tried it? One of my salty buddies. Me, I've only been his life food raising representative.. ;-) HTH..  Signaturecu Marco > How hard is this? Has anybody tried it? I tried maroon clowns and succed in my first attempt. So I would say it is not difficult with good instructions. Sold about 40 young to the stores around me. Kept a pair of young as a souvenir in a separate tank. They are not spawning yet but I would like to close the circle of life with them that is one more reason I keep them :-) Good instructions are in the Clownfishes book by Wilkerson: http://www.amazon.com/Clownfishes-Joyce-D-Wilkerson/dp/1890087041 > Good instructions are in the Clownfishes book by Wilkerson: > http://www.amazon.com/Clownfishes-Joyce-D-Wilkerson/dp/1890087041 Hey, thanks. It's just an experiment, but I know my kids would enjoy it. --Kurt >> Good instructions are in the Clownfishes book by Wilkerson: >> http://www.amazon.com/Clownfishes-Joyce-D-Wilkerson/dp/1890087041 > > Hey, thanks. It's just an experiment, but I know my kids would enjoy it. Well, your kids might not appreciate two problems inherently related to rising small fish: - massive death rate in the first couple of weeks/month - parting with the grown fish since not all will fit home aquarium :-) I was quite sad every time I was selecting next dozen of bigger fish for a trip to the local store for a sell/exchange... Cute little bastards and it is a really emotional moment when you have to part with little buggers after almost a year of taking care for them ;-) > I was quite sad every time I was selecting next dozen of bigger fish > for a trip to the local store for a sell/exchange... Cute little bastards > and it is a really emotional moment when you have to part with > little buggers after almost a year of taking care for them ;-) Yeah, finding homes may be rough. I've heard about the die offs. It may take a bit of work. btw, it's not a breeder tank. I have 5 damsels, tang, 1 juvie grey angel, and more hermits then I need. Mortality is going to be high just getting the larvae out. --Kurt > btw, it's not a breeder tank. I have 5 damsels, tang, 1 juvie grey > angel, and more hermits then I need. Mortality is going to be high > just getting the larvae out. The idea is to convince your clowns to lie eggs on some small piece of flat rock or even a ceramic bathroom tile. This can be taken out of the main tank before the hatching night... This way ALL eggs will hatch in the small, 5 gallons larvae tank with only air tubing making the water movement. No powerheads etc which would destroy fry. Of course before you do it you need to have very active rotifer farm producing a big swarm of rotifers every day to feed the hungry bunch in your fry tank. So first couple of times you just let the larvae hatch in the main tank and do not collect them - use this as your timing excercise to make sure you know when they will hatch when you are ready to take up the challenge :-) Rising clownfish larvae is not difficult but it is definitelly very laborious and requires a lot of discipline and patience. I did it with platies (freshwater), some died at the beginning. Other were eaten by the mother. The rest I gave away, but inexperience aquarist put them with bigger fish, and you know what happened. It was a lot of work but not as expensive as it would be with marine fish. I would advice against trying, but if you have the time and like to experiment, that's your choice. R > How hard is this? Has anybody tried it? > > --Kurt > I did it with platies (freshwater), some died at the beginning. Other were > eaten by the mother. The rest I gave away, but inexperience aquarist put [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I would advice against trying, but if you have the time and like to > experiment, that's your choice. Rising clownfish is NOTHING like rising livebearer freshwater fish. In most cases, as long as you provide hiding places and prevent fry being eaten platies will reproduce without you even trying... > In most cases, as long as you provide hiding places and prevent fry > being eaten platies will reproduce without you even trying... I had a lot of hiding places, but at feeding time they became lunch when trying to eat. I could see their tail sticking out of the other fish mouths, not a pretty scene. I was surprise to see the Mother eating them as well when I put them in a different tank, not to mention the other parent. I wouldn't try again, marine or freshwater. Beside, I'm sure my other fish would dine on anything that reproduce in the tank without me even noticing. R |
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