New Clown!

Yeah, those are getting ready to hatch soon. Good luck!

Thanks! They are due to hatch out tomorrow night. Hopefully they do. Temperature could delay by a day

Good luck Blake

Thanks Chris.
They looked really close to hatching last night so I decided to hit the lights and turn off the pumps for an hour just in case. Good thing I did because they hatched! They are now in a ten gallon full of rotifers and pyhto. I'll try to get some pics but it's pretty hard to see them with the naked eye, much less a camera lens.

sweet! Can't wait to see these grow out! There's a lot of ppl on this site raising them now. That's great!!!!

so much fun to watch. Cant wait to see some more pics!!

Thanks guys! I can't wait to see how they turn out either. Here's a quick video I shot
YouTube - Percula Clowns-1 Day old

They look great, Blake! How many would you say you snagged?

Congrats Blake!! How many do you think you got?

Thanks guys! I'm terrible at estimating, but I would say there's around 75ish or so. They still look good, they have silver bellies which I think means theyre eating right? I have seen a couple strike at rotifers.

I also collected some other larvae by accident. The only other pairs if things I have in the tank are sexy shrimp and blue leg hermit crabs crabs. I have seen sexy shrimp larvae so it must be hermit crab larvae. They are about half the size of the clowns. I wonder if they eat rotifers?

Yes silver bellies means they are eating.

I have no idea what crab or shrimp larva might eat. That would be cool of whatever they are made it too.

Cool. Whatever the invert larvae are, some of them are still alive.

We had another spawn today@ Only 10 days after their last one. That's pretty quick. It's a little smaller because I put in a tile and they tried to lay around it. Still, it's a decent sized nest. I'll collect this batch too.

WOO HOO!!! those babies look pretty good to me too!
and silver bellies = fat and happy! are you keeping the light on 24/7 for the 1st 3 days?

I just have ambient room light on them. The lights in the room are on for 12 hours and off for 12 hours.

The phyto has cleared up and I don't have as many as I thought I did. Maybe 10-20. I wonder why I lost some. I don't see any bodies. I have noticed some baby brine shrimp in there the last few days which is strange. There must have been eggs in the tank. I wonder if the fry could have eaten some of the shells? I'll clean out the next tank thoroughly.

Here's another video from today:

well.......that sucks big time blake.....so sorry....

did you thoroughly clean/sterilize that baby tank before setting it up for this batch?
lighting is very important - they need it to hunt....I'd recommend putting a cheapo 3watt clip-on light about a foot above the baby tank and diffuse it with a couple layers of paper towels....keep it on like that for the first 3 days...I also think that whatever was swimming with them was not good for them...was your temperature the same as the parent tank? was the salinity the same as the parent tank?

No big deal, it happens. It was a new tank, so no I did not sterilize it.
Thanks for the tip on the light. They have plenty of light from 11am-11pm because they are right next to the growout system and get indirect light from there. I'll figure something out for at night.

I took water directly from the parent tank and the larvae went in minutes later, so there was no change in params.

I have a feeling that Barb is gonna say that the indirect light is a no/no and that they need their own light from directly above the tank.

.......I do think it will help....................maybe this was just a bad batch???? are you gonna collect the next one blake?

I guess it could have been. Yes, I will collect the next batch. It is a small nest, but I don't mind.

WOO HOO!!! .....so did they lay this batch yet or is that tonight?