Black Ice X Black Snowflake Eggs!!

[N. Crawford]

These are my 2 pairs

 

[stevers]

It's a 24 jbj cube and with a homemade egg crate divider. Maybe 20 lbs live rock, 2 inches sand. Frogspawn and 4 mini green bubble tips with the breeding pair on the left. And 20 head Duncan, purple vase sponge, green sinularia, some mushrooms and a small frogspawn frag on the right with a donis lineage plat female and a juvenile onyx from sustainable aquatics. Soon they will pair, been together a month and starting to shake and interact.

 

[N. Crawford]

Wait if they aren't paired now where did you get the clutch?

 

[stevers]

I have 4 pairs. The snowflakes are the only ones that are breeding right now.

 

[stevers]

Are those like extreme black ice? They are cool that's for sure

 

[N. Crawford]

Yes my crown jewel. Premium Ultra black ice

 

[N. Crawford]

Good markings

 

[stevers]

Slick. Do you know what the parents were? Was is a normal darwin X snowflake? Or was it a double snowflake pair?

 

[N. Crawford]

I don't have any clue

 

[N. Crawford]

Where did you get your snowflakes?

 

[stevers]

A frag swap that "Booyahs Reef Clownfish" was at. I'm happy with them, I have another pair from him too and they are very nice as well. I would recommend him.

 

[N. Crawford]

Oh yeah I remember you told me that where was the frag swap? And when is the next I've been looking for a big one around here

 

[stevers]

I'm not sure but I know there is a big one end of January and another end of March.

 

[N. Crawford]

Ok cool

 

[dr01dy]

Looking good Stevers, I've been breading my clowns for about 6 months now. I have good clutches and bad clutches. I am interested in your number count. Out of all those numbers your counting I bet your only seeing about 20/30 hatch, am I right ?

 

[stevers]

I'm still perfecting my hatch technique. I try to count the eggs on hatch nice, pull the pot and wait a few hours. Then I'll put the pot back in with the parents and count the eggs that are left, Instead of counting the larvae. I didn't get a chance to count the eggs after the hatch this time. But I'm thinking around 60% hatched on the first night. I'm guessing I have around 60 fry. The parents ate the rest of the eggs the next day so I couldn't get a second round of hatching.
My first hatch I left the pot in the larvae tank for 2 nights. It annoyed the broodstock, but I did hatch around 80%. 20% succumbed to white fungus from poor aeration. That time I had around 80-100 larvae but had a hiccup and lost most of them.

 

[Dnsane1]

Stevers,
Saw this and thought it my be helpful. Cobalt Aquatics Egg-Rocker Fish Egg Tumbler: Aquarium Fish Hatchery

 

[stevers]

Cool thanks, that would be useful for fish that don't stick their eggs to something. Clowns attach their eggs to their desired surface and tend until they hatch. This product is more targeted towards species that don't attach their eggs to a surface. Like cardinals or even jawfish, their eggs must be tumbled to keep from fouling.

 

[SaltedReefer]

On no

 

[SaltedReefer]

^^^that I kid you not was a pocket comment!!!!