Break out the cigars!

[GeoSquid]

I'm a Grampa!

 

[lapin]

Eggs. Have a hatch out plan?

 

[G Santana]

Good luck!

 

[GeoSquid]

No, they are going to be fish food. I have 3 triggers and a fiji puffer among other.

 

[GeoSquid]

This is the second batch of eggs. The first batch she laid on top of a field of GSP about a foot away and then ate most them. I noticed both of them cleaning the rock next to the nem for quite a while now since. I figured they were getting ready for another batch.

 

[TriggersAmuck]

Congrats! My pair of Maroons laid eggs every other week for over ten years. (Never was brave enough to rear a clutch of baby Maroons! LOL).

 

[GeoSquid]

Congrats! My pair of Maroons laid eggs every other week for over ten years. (Never was brave enough to rear a clutch of baby Maroons! LOL).

HA - no doubt.

This is a pair of saddlebacks. I also have a pair of maroons that live on the other side of the tank behind a pump. This is a 180 gal. The saddlesbacks are much bigger than the maroons, so they hide in the corner mostly and don't have an anemone. I think they need an anemone to lay eggs but I could be wrong. Currently, I have 5 rainbow bta's but their all in a cluster with the saddles.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Cheers grandpa!

 

[GHOSTLY]

Good luck! Hope to see the lil' buggers grow up!

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Congrats. High protein fish food

 

[TriggersAmuck]

I always thought it was cool that the day of or day before the eggs would hatch you would see the color morph from the bright orange in your picture to a silvery grey color, and if you look carefully you will see that is the color of the eyes forming. Good predictor of when to move the rock over to a nursery tank if you did want to attempt to rear them.

 

[GeoSquid]

Well, most of the eggs are gone. Fiji puffers really like caviar! There's still a very small patch of eggs left and they are not red/orange any longer. It seems the other fish stopped going after them once the color changed.

 

[SPS2020]

Ironically, my Percula clowns have laid eggs twice this year as well. Once a few weeks ago and then over this past weekend. My tank is SPS dominant with minimal aquascaping, so there's really not a good place for them. I'm pretty sure that a crab or other fish took out the first batch...probably the same fate for the second.

 

[chizerbunoi]

Congrats. Mine used to be gone all time as the gigantea covered their nest. I would never see any fish until feeding time when a head would pop out.

But since I cleaned the powerhead and the flow changed, the gig moved too. Now the clowns have abandoned their parenting duties entirely. LOL