Well I got home tonight and noticed one of my pairs of gold stripe maroon clowns had spawned, apparently several days ago as I could see the fry's beady little eyes reflecting from their holding spot in the cave they were in. So I am going to attempt to raise these.
Knowing that they would be hatching tonight, I knew I didn't have much time. And not having a tank setup for them I have created a temporary holding setup for them to be in overnight. I cut the bottom 8 inches off an old salt bucket with tabs left around the top of the bucket to hold the container at the water surface. I decided to use acrylic rods to suspend the container in the tank.
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An airstone was placed into the container to circulate / areate the water.
A 40gB is being filled with water for their new home. The couple months I have already been waiting to set up the 40 as a frag tank will now be postponed further.
Rock and eggs were placed into the container at about 7:00 PM. Lights were turned off with just ambient room light entering the tank. By 8:30 PM the fry started hatching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY0tAiaDltU
I am gonna give these little guys all I can in hopes of getting a good % raised.
I will keep you posted. I better go check on the other clown tanks...
Knowing that they would be hatching tonight, I knew I didn't have much time. And not having a tank setup for them I have created a temporary holding setup for them to be in overnight. I cut the bottom 8 inches off an old salt bucket with tabs left around the top of the bucket to hold the container at the water surface. I decided to use acrylic rods to suspend the container in the tank.
View attachment 11248
An airstone was placed into the container to circulate / areate the water.
A 40gB is being filled with water for their new home. The couple months I have already been waiting to set up the 40 as a frag tank will now be postponed further.
Rock and eggs were placed into the container at about 7:00 PM. Lights were turned off with just ambient room light entering the tank. By 8:30 PM the fry started hatching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY0tAiaDltU
I am gonna give these little guys all I can in hopes of getting a good % raised.
I will keep you posted. I better go check on the other clown tanks...