Baby Clown Survival

[Alice]

Very neat, Aaron!

Good luck with your babies

 

[thecoralreef]

Do you have an update on your babies. What is the mortality of your clutch?

 

[Angelscrx]

Do you have an update on your babies. What is the mortality of your clutch?

Welcome to reef frontiers!

Any updates?

 

[thecoralreef]

Geez, that was quick for a reply. Also, has anyone started a green water culture from DT's. If so how long did it take to get started. I'm full of questions. Also if anyone has green water culturing, can you post a picture of your culture jugs, I'm not sure how green this culture is suppose to be from the first jug to the last jug. A picture of a rotifer culture would be nice as well if you have one.

Thanks very much, TCR

 

[NaH2O]

Welcome to Reef Frontiers TCR!!

 

[uwscotch]

I've been extremely slow putting together a picture story, but hopefully I'll get around to it. Mortality rate excluding my own stupidity in occasional transfer errors are extremely low. However, I choose not to raise every single larvae, I currently do not have the tank space that is necessary. I tend to collect the larvae and take a fraction of what survives the night. Losses overnight are from 15% currently to 100% initially. From the survivors, I scoop out about 40 and raise those. The mortality of that population so far, going all the way to mature baby clowns eating only flake food is about 65%. Still not great, but I don't necessarily want to raise that many clowns. I would actually like to collect larvae from other peoples tank of a different type, such as black percs, maroons, skunk, etc. Whatever survives, I would split the goods, but I'm sure the transfering would have dire consequences on the survival. I have started cultures from DT's. About 10-20mls into 2 liters should be very healthy and ready to feed to rotifers in about 1.5 weeks. YOU NEED TO ADD FERTILIZER, GUILLARD'S F2 WORKS VERY WELL. A mistake many people make is just adding it to water and letting it go. It will grow for a little bit, but then crash. I will make a very serious effort this weekend to organize my pictures of my setup greenwater and post them.

By the way, Welcome to Reeffrontiers

 

[thecoralreef]

It will be nice to see another setup of greenwater, rotifers and larvae setup as I am starting this all from scratch with not every seeing another setup before. I guess starting greenwater from DT's is diluted pretty good. I started my first 2 - 2 liter bottle's of greenwater with1-7.5 oz bottle of DT's in each 2 liter bottle. That too much to start with I take it? I will just have to start the rest from dividing up the bottles into the remaining bottles. I plan on having 7 - 2 liter bottle in total, one for every day of the week. Another question, do you cut a hole in the bottom of the 2 liter bottle and use the bottle upside down so that nothing settles in the bottle, it will allsettle into the cone (top of bottle) and get pushed back into the water column? Where do you get this fertilizer from as I will undoubtedly need it eventually. Thanks for your help, I will have more questions.
TCR

 

[Angelscrx]

Geez, that was quick for a reply. Also, has anyone started a green water culture from DT's. If so how long did it take to get started. I'm full of questions. Also if anyone has green water culturing, can you post a picture of your culture jugs, I'm not sure how green this culture is suppose to be from the first jug to the last jug. A picture of a rotifer culture would be nice as well if you have one.

Thanks very much, TCR

You can look at www.GARF.org they have a process going for that somewhere on the site. I have never done it but I have heard that it's not that hrd.