Vinny, thank you for all the info. I will hopefully be more ready next time around. I went into emergency mode and picked up some Phyto from Kevin and Rotifers from Barbie. I also placed an order for phyto starter discs from florida aquafarms. I am sorry if I am not supposed to say where I got it, but I thought I would share in case anyone else will try raising fry.
I sat up all night and 17 babies hatched. There were more, but it was around 1:30 in the morning, and I thought rest of them were going to wait until the next night to hatch, so I went to sleep. I waited an hour after my first batch hatched to see if more would come. They never did. I woke up in the morning and there were none left. =*(. Poor little guys. So out of this clutch, only 5 are remaining. Last night I had around 15 left. This is my first time trying to raise saltwater fry, and I guess I'm not really doing too good. It is my own fault.
We had to take Squeakie to the vet day before yesterday, the pet emergency clinic, and now she is back at the vet today. Her kidney's were not doing well from the Chemo. I will not be able to continue with it. I just hope she can bounce back from this and make it to the summer. She loves to lay out on our chairs outside under the sun. She can be there all day, and I swear she is smiling when she is out there. I have just been praying she can make it until then. Yesterday was a really hard day for me and it was my fault only 5 fry are left. I spent most of the day crying and did not feed them every 3 hours like I was supposed to. I know some people will think, she is just a cat, but she is more than that to me. To me, she is my child and my best friend. She is so much different than any cat I have had in my life. We have 4 others, and her and I connect in a way that is like mother and child. I love my other cats as well, but she is the best.
Thank you Nana C for the compliments and for thinking of my baby Squeakie.
Thank you Tureef.
Chris, thank you so much for thinking of my baby and for caring.
However if you would like to try and raise some clowns I can offer some advice. They will usually survive about 3 days on thier yoke sack after that if there is no food they die. There are a couple of trap ideas out there which you can research and check out. I had great success catching them with a net and transfering them to a small holding tank. They will usually hatch about 1 hour after lights out. I believe this is because in the wild all the predators that would eat them are sleeping by then. Most of the nocturnal predators are larger fish looking for small fish. If you get a moonlight, nite light and rig it so you can place it on the side or top of the tank the newly hatched fish will swim to the light. then you can catch them with a brine shrimp net. If you have a lot of flow it is best to turn off or down a couple of pumps. They do not eat Phyto. I do not know if they will eat froozen rotifers or not, I had someone else suggest this but have not had a chace to try. If you do live rotifers they need the Phyto to eat. I have had half of the cluthch hatch one night and the other hatch the next nite. Sometimes all at once. Don't worry if you are not quite ready the first time around they should continue to lay eggs if the conditons allow. If you don't see any baby fish swimming around an hour or two go to bed and try the next nite.LOL You will also see all kinds of plankton swimming in the light it is very cool. I use to catch all that other stuff to feed my baby seahorses. Hope this helps a little. Good luck!!!
