What to feed clownfish eggs?
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pugcrush
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It's a full time job honestly. At a minimum, you need a phyto/rotifer culture going. I've seen quite a few breeding facilities in the industry. Even a small time setup isnt even worth it unless you got alot of free time. Check out the breeding subforum for some ideas though. But fish eggs = fish/coral food. So your tank will still be happy at the end of the day!
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You will not feed the eggs as stated above. But once they hatch you need to feed constantly small food like can o cyclops, phyto, live baby brine shrimp. Also, can we get a pic of the eggs to see if possible to move to a grow out tank?
sabeypets
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You will need a 10 gallon tank with an air stone to hatch/raise them in and a rotifer culture/live rotifers to feed them. This is just a basic bare minimum, you will have to research how to raise clownfish.
Nburg's Reef
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In all honesty, its best to think of their hatched fry as free coral food. Even if you spend the time and money raising the clowns, you will have a hard time getting rid of all of the babies. I think it's something like 6 months before they're able to go to market and even then, you're competing with a flooded market and a desire for the designer clown of the month.
Unless you want the pride of raising, its not worth the effort for most people. My clowns lay eggs every month and I stopped caring about the eggs years ago but its a good sign the clowns are healthy.
Unless you want the pride of raising, its not worth the effort for most people. My clowns lay eggs every month and I stopped caring about the eggs years ago but its a good sign the clowns are healthy.
D-Nak
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To add to what others have already mentioned, unless you really know what you're doing, you're going to end up with a lot of fish with defects. In my opinion, that's worse than just letting the babies become fish food.
