Eggs hatching, A few questions!

[Dlckwood]

Hello, I took my clown eggs out of my tank yesterday and I put them in a 10 gallon filled up half-way. When the lights go out and they start hatching, Do I add rotifiers the same night or do I wait untill the lights come on? Can I turn the lights on early so I can feed them before school? Thanks
David

[Morgman]

David-

Yes you can start the rotifers that day or the day before. Use instant algae too. This will give your rotifers a head start before the larvae are introduced.

You don't have to turn the lights on before school. Just makes sure you have a bunch of rotifers floating around. You may want to drip in some instant algae into the larval tank to keep the rotifers reproducing through out the day. If you do this should be fine until you get home.

[rsman]

the advantage to waiting a little is increased oxygen levels.

do use IA or other algae on a drip. i prefere using live algae and lights, search for co culturing itll increase O2 levels and decrease ammonia/nitrite

[Dlckwood]

They just started hatching! Quick little things arnt they?

This is just so exciting, I sure hope I have what it takes. My roomate told me he thought that if I spend half as much time on my homework as I do on my clowns I would have strait A's. Just thought that was kind of funny.
David

[rsman]

yep fast suckers !!!


My roomate told me he thought that if I spend half as much time on my homework as I do on my clowns I would have strait A's
hehe i know that drill well

[StinkyNappy]

David, any chance of some pics of those babies?? would be nice, thanks...

[Dlckwood]

I will try but they are so small it might be kind of difficult.
David

[Vert20]

These are not David's, but I thought maybe they would show you what he is dealing with.

These are Gold Stipe Maroon's the morning after hatch


There is a page that chronicles various developement stages on some of my fry

Goes from Egg up to day 128 so far...
Go Here to See it

Hope this helps. Also I hope I am not horning in on David- I know how difficult it is to shoot these pics so I thought I could help out.

[Dlckwood]

No, thank you. I have been trying to take a photo for the last half hour with no success.
David

[Vert20]

How are your babies coming along?

[Dlckwood]

There was a mass die off within the first 12 hours. Out of about eighty to start with, 55 died. The others are still doing good it looks.
David

[rsman]

test the water quality, post numbers.
give a complete description of your setup.


though on a first hatch for a pair low numbers are common.

[Dlckwood]

Well, there not great
temp - 80
ph - 8.3
NO2 - .2
NO3 - 10
NH3 - .1

Ten gallon tank with 5 gallons of water in it. Covered with black paper on the sides. Bottom is white. I vacumed the bottom today and I will continue to do so.
David

[rsman]

try amquel +plus or plus + or whatever itll do good things with the ammonia/nitrite. might try slowly lowering the temp also