Latz clownfish spawning

[ReeferMadness09]

I know what you mean, trying to take a picture of the babies makes my camera go bonkers

 

[BrotherSheepDog]

Eyes are starting to turn silver. Getting close to hatch time.

congrats on the babies. I love the unique looks of the Latz. I always wanted a pair. good luck with everything

 

[Baby Ray]

Defiantly following this one!!!
I've always wanted to breed clowns

 

[Blue Lip]

I had one baby hatch today. The hatch is over. I have a bunch of babies. The parents spawned again this morning.

 

[Skebor]

That's amazing!

 

[Blue Lip]

This is what the babies look like this morning.

 

[Blue Lip]

Next batch of eggs. My saddle wrasse has already eaten most of the eggs before I could take them out.

 

[Blue Lip]

My saddle wrasse also ate most of the eggs prior to the spawn at the beginning of this thread. I have only 1 baby from that hatch.

 

[Bunnee911]

How many spawns has he eaten that you know about?

 

[Blue Lip]

He usually gets a few from every spawn. Even as i have pulled the rock out, he tries to get them.

 

[Blue Lip]

Current development of fry.

 

[Bunnee911]

Can you give us a fts?

 

[Blue Lip]

Little black dot are fry

 

[Blue Lip]

It is important to keep the water tinted with phytoplankton. When the fry are small, they dive to the bottom or stick to the sides when the water starts to clear. Once they have gone through metamorphosis it isn't important anymore.

 

[Blue Lip]

Fts shots don't really show much of what the fry look like. Its actually difficult to get a good picture of the fry with my phone.

 

[Blue Lip]

Or did you mean fts of my tank with the breeding latz?

 

[Blue Lip]

I've paired these 2. The larger one is the first baby I kept alive. It was the 7th time my latz spawned & the only one I had make it. The smaller one is from the 8th spawn.

 

[Blue Lip]

Morning shot before I add more phytoplankton. Although the water isn't totally clear, it is to bright for the fry. Many stick to the glass & really don't eat. I add more phytoplankton & they start to swim & feed. I hatch artemia daily as they grow fast & the fry eat only the smallest. Artemia have a lot of nutritional value only when they have their yolk from hatching.

 

[Chad Clayton]

Which species of phytoplankton are you feeding to your rotifers? Glad to hear that the TDO is working for your animals. Can you show us your Tigriopus cultures and what you are feeding them? I culture live feeds for Reed Mariculture and I'm always interested to see how other people are growing their zooplankton.

 

[Blue Lip]

I culture rotifers in 5 gallon buckets. I feed them the frozen nannochloropsis from Reed Mariculture. I use live nannochloropsis to feed them in the fry tanks. I culture tiger pods in a 5 gallon bucket about half full. I dont use an air pump for them. I feed the tigerpods live phytoplankton (isochrysis galbana T strain & chaetoceros gracilis).