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Hi all,

I wanted to see if anybody had some input on my current issue. My clownfish pair (female onyx/ male picasso) have been laying for about 2 months now, and out of all their batches (about 6 since they started laying), they have ate all but one (which I currently have 35 day old babies from =D ). After they laid the nest that I'm successfully currently raising, every time they laid, the eggs seem milky white as soon as they are laid, not bright orange, which is how they should look. Usually by day 4 after laying, most of the eggs are gone. I'm feeding 3-4 times a day, and I feed a variety of flake foods and occasionally feed frozen mysis, frozen cyclop-eeze and squid. They are housed in a 29 gal reef, have a flower pot, no other tank mates. I'm not real sure what could be causing this, which I assume is bad quality eggs right off the back, so I thought I'd ask around here and see if somebody has some input. Thank you very much!
 
Eggs often reflect the diet of the parents. Flakes are not good for producing healthy eggs, i feed my clowns mysis, clam, rods reef, and squid 3 times a day.


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Excellent, I figured I should try and feed more meaty food, but flakes are just so much easier and I had not had any problems before, but I'll switch to that and hopefully that will solve the problem with the milky white eggs.
 
Excellent, I figured I should try and feed more meaty food, but flakes are just so much easier and I had not had any problems before, but I'll switch to that and hopefully that will solve the problem with the milky white eggs.

I was the same way. Flakes are cheap and never seem to run out and my clowns appeared to be in excellent health, my hatchlings were doing terrible and I started feeding only frozen and live foods and they were bright orange, unfortunately I donated this pair to my lfs 1200 gallon tank. In return he sold me a 210$ pair of black onxy for 45$. Hopefully they breed soon


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please keep us all updated on everything and food your feeding with lighting and how manny times perday being fed. thank you.!

cause my girlfriend is breading snowflakes and black ICE clown fish. also breading a black ice with ocerlias clown. and also breading a pair of black photon clowns.

would love to no your outcome. Keep in touch.
 
I was the same way. Flakes are cheap and never seem to run out and my clowns appeared to be in excellent health, my hatchlings were doing terrible and I started feeding only frozen and live foods and they were bright orange, unfortunately I donated this pair to my lfs 1200 gallon tank. In return he sold me a 210$ pair of black onxy for 45$. Hopefully they breed soon


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Alright, frozen and live foods it is! Thanks! That sounds like a heck of a deal for those onyx, do they look like they're close to breeding? Are they the ones from your avatar picture?
 
please keep us all updated on everything and food your feeding with lighting and how manny times perday being fed. thank you.!

cause my girlfriend is breading snowflakes and black ICE clown fish. also breading a black ice with ocerlias clown. and also breading a pair of black photon clowns.

would love to no your outcome. Keep in touch.

Sounds good, I'll post some pics later on, and if you want I can PM you with some of the stuff that I do daily etc etc, it's been hard, but definitely fun getting to see the larvae grow into little clownfish!
 
Alright, frozen and live foods it is! Thanks! That sounds like a heck of a deal for those onyx, do they look like they're close to breeding? Are they the ones from your avatar picture?

Yep that's them! They're very close to breeding. The only reason i got them so cheap is because I donated a pair of breeding Wyoming whites. And he knows I'll be back to buy more.
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As you can see they're very dark, they are from Ora


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I'm impressed, when you mentioned donated your breeding pair, I thought maybe a regular pair of occellaris, but wyoming whites, WOW! That's awesome tho, more power to you. That's also a nice pair of onyx, nice and dark. I'll post a pic of my breeding pair when I get home, thanks for sharing!
Yep that's them! They're very close to breeding. The only reason i got them so cheap is because I donated a pair of breeding Wyoming whites. And he knows I'll be back to buy more.
ImageUploadedByReef2Reef Aquarium Forum1369940994.982840.jpg

As you can see they're very dark, they are from Ora


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