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About 80% of the recently hatched clowns are showing their first stripes but still no orange coloration. I did some research on A. Percula breeding and it seems that they can take up to a year or more to fully develop colors, which is kind of a bummer. Ocellaris clowns develop much faster. I'll post a video on Sunday when they turn 14 days old.
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See, no death after 2nd night other than the one that got caught in the filter. Be careful or you ended up like me. Had 1000 fish and no way to get rid of them. No way other than ahve to really cull the bad ones and don't start with more than 200 or so.
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I've noticed that about 15 of them adopted algae on the bottom as a host. The problem that may occur is that they won't be able to get otohime. I wish I had used a 10 gallon tank filled half way than a 5.5 gallon tank filled all the way up.
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I might have to cull 3-4 thin and weak clowns tomorrow :/
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Here is a video update of clowns, 14 days old. I've been trying to feed them TDO and haven't fed rotifers since yesterday afternoon. I wanted to stop feeding rotifers on day 10 but didn't have enough confidence in clowns surviving.
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you may want to feed them 1/2 of each for a few days before wean them off rotifers.
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Came home after a night out; took down rotifer station #2; siphoned the hatch tank with a turkey baster; did some culling; did a 20% water change. Harvested 25% of rotifers from station #1 to feed the clowns;; cleaned the rotifer station. It's a lot of work for a Sunday night. But worth it.
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I noticed a couple of days ago that some clowns have their middle stripes showing just a little bit. The middle bars are more apparent now.
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Heavy broodstock feedings 3 times a day caused significant deterioration of my underfiltered 40 gallon reef tank. Now the broodstock gets fed once a day to bring the reef tank back to good shape. Despite the reduced feeding schedule the clowns laid eggs today. It's not a small clutch. They just won't stop :-)
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Here are some of the babies with fat bellies eating away rotifers
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What brand of rotifers are you using?
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So, about probiotics...
I went to Petco to pick up some filter sponges to start seeding them for a grow out tank. The fish food section had these marine flakes made by Seachem which I bought. They contain probiotics. Even though the clowns have already gone through meta it probably wouldn't hurt to feed them this food now. PS I just pulverized these flakes and fed the clowns. Their feeding response was way better than with TDO. That's surprising because the parents love TDO the most. Last edited by CoralsAddiction; 09/15/2016 at 07:49 PM. |
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I would not buy into the "probiotics" hypes. Probiotic is suppose to be gut bacterial. I doubt that there are any "real live probiotics" in the food, or else you get soiled food. Probiotic bacterial are important if we are exposed to antibiotic that wipe out a lot of our beneficial bacterial population. Other than that it does not do much.
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Rotifer station #1 has just been taken down and the clowns haven't eaten rotifers in 2 days. There weren't any losses during that time. I felt comfortable enough to end the rotifer culture. I kept the last harvest and put it in the refrigerator just in case. The harvest might get recycled in a week if there's a need for it.
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I've culled some skinny, underdeveloped and deformed clowns. Theres about 50 left. A more accurate count will be done in a few days when the clowns get moved to grow out.
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Great thread. Tagging along for the ride. Thank you for posting.
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Thanks!
A little bit gruesome but do you have any pictures of the rejects?? Im just trying to figure out the difference between an acceptable deformity and an unacceptable one. (Idk if youve heard of the "stubbies" that ORA sells) Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk |
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I am familiar with ORA Stubby clowns. I find them funny especially B&W stubby Ocellaris clowns. I once saw a wild caught stubby true percula clown for sale which was weird. Here's a pic of it. |
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Wow!! I never thought a stubby could survive in the wild (they dont swim well right?).
Thanks for the info! My clowns started "dancing" to each other each other just last week. Hopefully ill be raising something by 2017 😂 Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk |
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