Help hatching and raising baby clowns

[AlyciaMarieee]

My dad has a pair of clownfish that are laying eggs every two weeks. I want to try to hatch and raise them, but not sure where to start. I've watched some videos and I have a basic idea of what needs to happen in order for them to hatch, but keeping them alive after they've hatched is the issue. I guess the real question is what do they eat? We have most of the equipment to hatch and raise them just lying around, but I'm not quite sure how to put it to use. I'll happily receive any tips and tricks on how to keep these little guys alive and growing!

 

[Paul B]

Baby clowns are relatively easy to raise as they are not microscopic like many common fish. The newborns eat rotifers and must have a living supply of them constantly for the first weeks. After about two weeks they should be eating live new born brine shrimp. As they mature they will eat other things like larger brine shrimp or better, tiny pieces of fresh clam.
I have raised them a few times and I got the rotifers from "Florida Aqua Farms". You also need to order "green water" to feed the live rotifers.

 

[AlyciaMarieee]

Baby clowns are relatively easy to raise as they are not microscopic like many common fish. The newborns eat rotifers and must have a living supply of them constantly for the first weeks. After about two weeks they should be eating live new born brine shrimp. As they mature they will eat other things like larger brine shrimp or better, tiny pieces of fresh clam.
I have raised them a few times and I got the rotifers from "Florida Aqua Farms". You also need to order "green water" to feed the live rotifers.

How do you grow food for the rotifers?

 

[Paul B]

You don't. You buy "green water" from Florida Aqua Farms and feed the rotifers that. You only need it once because after a couple of weeks the fish will be too big to eat rotifers and will have to start eating new born brine shrimp.

 

[ericauch]

You can grow your own phyto which is what the rotifers eat split the green water into 2, 2 liter bottles drill a hole in the bottom and shove an air hose in their seal it and put a grow light behind it in about 3-5 days you can split the cultures again. also you can dump access rotifers from your rotifer culture, because they multiply like friggin crazy, into your display cause they are supper healthy for adult fish. Buy a culture split it and have a grow light. The hardest thing about feeding the babies is water quality and maintaining the rotifer quantity in their tank. Once you figure those out its easy. As far as water quality goes I just use a 10 gallon tank and do 50% water changes 4 times a day using water from the display tank. instead of introducing new type of water to them.

Also I have been successful in Switching strait from rotifers to golden pearls and never having to culture brine shrimp.

 

[Blue Lip]

Reed Mariculture sells rotifer diet