g6gang
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I was not trying to breed but my clowns just laid down some eggs at the base of my elegance coral that it has been pestering for months. Any chance of the babies surviving or would I have to quarantine. It is in DT.
Clown just laid eggs ...now what??
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shornik
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Yep, free fish and coral food I agree. Mine have spawned a couple times now, it seems my snails get the most of the eggs and my wife gets really angry at them, :mad:. Mine spawn on my heater, and the last time they somehow moved it so it was very hard for anything to get in there other than them so the eggs survived much longer before getting eaten, you could really see the tiny fish (eyes mostly). But we went away for memorial day weekend and when we came back they had all hatched or been eaten or most likely both.
My wife doesn't like it when that happens, but I view it as a healthy tank when the clowns (or anything else) spawns.
My wife doesn't like it when that happens, but I view it as a healthy tank when the clowns (or anything else) spawns.
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g6gang
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I am not so concerned about them hatching, but they are fighting with every fish that comes by and the boss of the tank ..aka Yellow Corris Wrasse has his eyes on them. I am concerned one of the fish will get injured and I will have other problems. I am thinking of moving elegance and pair to refugium? Or maybe just see how things go.
as an aside for some reason with the Tap Talk app, I can no linger upload pictures
as an aside for some reason with the Tap Talk app, I can no linger upload pictures
shornik
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That is true I didn't mention that and actually now that is how I can tell they've laid eggs again, they get pretty aggressive. But surprisingly only towards my Starry Blenny, the other fish in the tank (wrasses, anthers, dottyback, chalk bass) are pretty much left alone. But nothing terrible has happened just a lot of "stay away from my area" turf battles and that's it. I suppose it depends on the clowns too, I have occellaris so other species might be worse.
acolotto
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The other fish will learn to keep away, they're just protecting their spawn. My YWG's lay eggs and rip off the pistol shrimps arms as well as keep all fish away from burrows, but after eggs hatch everything returns to normal, as well as pistol shrimp starts growing arms back. IMO just let it handle it self, because the clowns will keep laying eggs, and you are not going to want to move them everytime.
