Woke up to find this :)

[TankCandy]

Went to feed my tank fish this morning and I noticed my small male clown did not follow the others during the feeding, went over and to check and its a massive cluster of eggs I have had these clowns for 5 years and and never noticed her pregnant until last couple weeks. She looked pregnant then it seemed to pass. Super excited and fingers crossed some survive.

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Woohoooo!!!!

 

[725196]

Very nice!

 

[KorD]

Awesome!

 

[Fishnut]

When your fish spawn, you know your taking great care them. Well done

 

[Blitz7737]

YAY! HOW EXCITING!! CONGRATS!!!

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Great morsels of live food for the tank... woohoo

 

[patrickjbuie]

That is so AWESOME!

 

[TriggersAmuck]

Caviar, yum! Keep a watch on the eggs, because you will see them turn silver one day (this is the coloration of the eyes forming, if you look carefully). At that point it will either be that night or the following that they will hatch. So if you were serious about raising the fry, the best practice would be to relocate the rock to a nursery tank when you see the eyes forming.

 

[TankCandy]

Thanks everyone!

Caviar, yum! Keep a watch on the eggs, because you will see them turn silver one day (this is the coloration of the eyes forming, if you look carefully). At that point it will either be that night or the following that they will hatch. So if you were serious about raising the fry, the best practice would be to relocate the rock to a nursery tank when you see the eyes forming.

I was completely unaware that they hatch so quickly!!
Now I want to stay up over night and watch overnight.

 

[TriggersAmuck]

Just to be clear, I wasn't saying they would turn silver in one day's time, but rather over the course of the next couple weeks. My Maroons laid eggs every two weeks like clockwork. Can't remember the exact timing from laying to eyes forming, as this was a few years ago.

 

[stylolvr]

Plans to raise the fry? Sometimes an LFS will swap for store credit if you can raise them to a sellable size. Great job!

 

[TankCandy]

Haha I thought this was a rare moment. I looked up what you said aout them turning silver and it seems like clowns will spawn A LOT, like every 2 weeks a lot....

I will try and raise the fry if i can catch them. I already removed the filter socks in hopes some make it to the sump section.

 

[Nburg's Reef]

Good work! They won't lay eggs when they're stressed so you're doing something right.

I use my fish spawning (both clowns and cardinals) as a gauge of how well I feed them. Before I moved, they laid eggs like clockwork. They stopped when I moved them to a small tank, moved across country and set the tank back up over a 6 month period. once they started laying eggs again, I knew things were settling out.