Need help with hatching clownfish
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shane reef
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Water temp at 81. Went to pull rock last night and only 2 eggs where on the rock. For the last two days their eyes where the reflective silver. I guess they died before they hatched and parents cleaned the rock. I pulled rock on day 7 and day 8 and nothing. Are they egg shells to hard? Is it something I am doing? I have tried leaving rock in tank covering tank and only an air stone and not a single fry has hatched.
NH Reef
Community Member
next time pull the rock and put it in the other tank with a little air bubbling near the eggs not directly on the eggs. you don't need much air. If they don't hatch that night leave it that way and give it light during the day and total darkness again the next night. Don't move it back into the parent tank.
shane reef
Community Member
Will try that, also I think I will introduced a pot. Should I wait until she is fixing to lay and put it in the way, where they are cleaning. Or add it now? They lay every 11 days like clock work. This next batch will be number 8.
NH Reef
Community Member
Tough call. They might just lay on the rock again. what about getting rid of the rock
mark11
New Member
I believe this is a good informative article about hatching eggs:
Pickle’s Guide to Breeding Clowns - Aquaculture - Nano-Reef.com Forums
For simplicity, we’ll assume Pickles is a woman. A couple thoughts specific to your comments: She once pulled the eggs three days early by mistake. She didn’t return the eggs to the parents and the eggs hatched. The air stone is upside down. I believe it’s to ensure that the bubbles aren’t too small. The air can touch the eggs. The objective is just to have a gentle flow of water over the eggs to replace the parents’ function of keeping them clean.
Pickle’s Guide to Breeding Clowns - Aquaculture - Nano-Reef.com Forums
For simplicity, we’ll assume Pickles is a woman. A couple thoughts specific to your comments: She once pulled the eggs three days early by mistake. She didn’t return the eggs to the parents and the eggs hatched. The air stone is upside down. I believe it’s to ensure that the bubbles aren’t too small. The air can touch the eggs. The objective is just to have a gentle flow of water over the eggs to replace the parents’ function of keeping them clean.
TampaJoe
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Well my bubbles are directed directly at eggs with force ...... Have a 150-200 going thru meta now. Watch parent,s behavior with eggs they do not sit there a gently fan the water as to crate flow lol
But many ways work just letting see mine, works with large nests ....
But many ways work just letting see mine, works with large nests ....
LatinKing
Clownfish Breeder
Shane just an FYI last night I covered the entired 10g tank with black construction paper took out enough water from the brookstock tank dropped a heater. Took out the pot with the eggs, this morning to my surprise eggs hatched. I followed the advise from the member on your thread not to have the air stone bubbles directly on the eggs. I think direct is too much!
shane reef
Community Member
That's Great!!!! There is a lot of new ideas to try this next batch. Some real good info in the links some of you provided.
NH Reef
Community Member
I'm going to have to disagree with Tampa Joe. Air should not be hitting the eggs. My males barely fans the eggs. Although it may work for Tampa Joe its not natural to the eggs to be blasted with air.
shane reef
Community Member
Well I have tried the air on the eggs for the last 3 times and I have had zero success in hatching eggs. Now I will try on the next batch to have air bubbles within 1/2in from eggs. Also will pull rock on night 7 and keep in its own tank until they hatch, hopefully.
ILikeClownfish
New Member
I also agree with air not touching the eggs. It should be very close for movement, but not direct contact.
Also, LatinKing, I'm over in Denville, if you get any of the fry past the meta and to a decent juvi size (1/2"-3/4"), and are looking to sell some, let me know. I have 10 pairs of clowns right now, but could always use new pairs to mix and match breeding later on lol. Also, do you know anything about their lineage? After too many generations of inbreeding, I don't like to use them. Almost (And I use that term pretty loosely) all TR clowns can be traced back to the same broodstock. So, if they are 2nd generation, or even 3rd, I'm interested. Past that, they'd have to be for a pretty good deal for me to use them as breeders lol. (Sorry to hijack the thread!)
Also, LatinKing, I'm over in Denville, if you get any of the fry past the meta and to a decent juvi size (1/2"-3/4"), and are looking to sell some, let me know. I have 10 pairs of clowns right now, but could always use new pairs to mix and match breeding later on lol. Also, do you know anything about their lineage? After too many generations of inbreeding, I don't like to use them. Almost (And I use that term pretty loosely) all TR clowns can be traced back to the same broodstock. So, if they are 2nd generation, or even 3rd, I'm interested. Past that, they'd have to be for a pretty good deal for me to use them as breeders lol. (Sorry to hijack the thread!)
shane reef
Community Member
Well counting down starts. Pair spawned last night before lights out and this batch is huge.
ILikeClownfish
New Member
Good luck with this one! Hopefully you get some hatches out of it! 
shane reef
Community Member
Ok, so I pulled rock on Sunday night, that's when all of there eyes where silver, put air stone by eggs not on them, had a little motion to the eggs, woke up next morning and almost all of them had turned white and not a single fry had hatched. Errr getting really frustrated QT this point. Any new ideas??
I did on a side note change their diet and started using frenzy frozen food and the love it. This also produced their largest batch so far.
And to top it off both roti cultures crashed last night.
I did on a side note change their diet and started using frenzy frozen food and the love it. This also produced their largest batch so far.
And to top it off both roti cultures crashed last night.
NH Reef
Community Member
man you are having some bad luck. I would suggest that you start over and list everything you did on your last hatch including date laid, fry tank, water parameters, temp, quantity of water, salinity, everything you can think of. so we can try and figure this out.
