Gonna have to hit Tomoko up for her larvae snagger design again, because they laid eggs on what I'd call a 'foundation rock' in the tank. No way that rock comes out.
Congratulations!
Here's a picture of my home made snagger.
The body of the snagger is a 2 liter coke bottle with its top cut off. I cut a small opening on the body and attached a section of pantyhose with a hot glue gun.
The green pipe is a part of Tetra sponge filter without the spong part, which looks like this:
You can make the same thing out of a short section of a PVC pipe and an elbow. You don't need the part with the holes that support a sponge at the bottom.
The airline on the green pipe is connected to a small air pump. Air from the pump will send water up the vertical pipe and come out from the elbow at the top, falling into the coke bottle. The excess water will go out through the pantyhose on the side.
I had an acrylic strip which was made into a hanger (to hang the bottle at the side of my 120) and attached it to the coke bottle with a nylon screw and a nylon wing nut.
Then, I placed a small wattage LED and appropriate size watch battery that I bought from Radioshack to the outside of the tank near the bottom opening of the green pipe to light up the bottom opening of the pipe at night. I simply taped the LED lamp and the watch battery with scotch tape at the side of the tank until all the larvae went into the coke bottle.
The important thing is to use a very small wattage LED so that the tank won't be lit up well. You need only small amount of light to lure the clownfish larvae to the bottom opening of the pipe. The larvae will be sucked into the pipe, go up the pipe with air and water mixture, and be delivered into the coke bottle without harm.
As you may know very well, clownfish larvae hatch at night shortly after the light goes out. It usually took close to one hour after the tank (actually the whole room) went dark. One time (only once) they came up right after the light turned off.
I usually raised my clownfish larvae in green water. Green water kept the water clean and fed rotifers and other planktons until they are eaten by the larvae.
Do you have live rotifers ready? I can bring you some if you need them. You need them for one to two weeks until they start eating bbs or Otohime. If you don't have Otohime, you need to get some. Otohime A, B, and C are fantastic food for raising clownfish to sellable size quickly.
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