Rare Angels
03/02/2003, 04:39 PM
I am working on raising another hatch of percula clowns. The fry hatched last night and I transferred them to a 10 gallon tank with about 4 gallons in it. This is my 4th batch of eggs and I am still learning.
I turned the light on for the larval tank and waited a couple hours before checking on the larval. When I did check on them I noticed they were all at the surface and seemsed to be trying to swim out of the water. After reading Joyce's clownfish book and reading a reply to a post I posted earlier I figured my lighting was to dim. The flourescent light I originally had was a 15 watt bulb, therefore I put a 55 watt PC light over the tank. This seemed to draw them to the surface more then the 15 watt. I then tried a 175 watt HM light, the same thing happened. They should have be repulsed by the bright lights and tried to swim through the bottom of the tank.
Do anyone out there have any idea what these larvae are doing?
The larval tank has the sides covered and the bottom is white.
I turned the light on for the larval tank and waited a couple hours before checking on the larval. When I did check on them I noticed they were all at the surface and seemsed to be trying to swim out of the water. After reading Joyce's clownfish book and reading a reply to a post I posted earlier I figured my lighting was to dim. The flourescent light I originally had was a 15 watt bulb, therefore I put a 55 watt PC light over the tank. This seemed to draw them to the surface more then the 15 watt. I then tried a 175 watt HM light, the same thing happened. They should have be repulsed by the bright lights and tried to swim through the bottom of the tank.
Do anyone out there have any idea what these larvae are doing?
The larval tank has the sides covered and the bottom is white.