are these clownfish eggs?

[Kelmen]

The best pic I can manage with my lousy cam. The center piece of stuffs.

They dont looks like anything like microalgae or bacteria that I'm think or feel familiar with.
Color-wise are kind of gray + few brown ( I can't really describe the color, sorry for my poor Eng, they are as the pic shown ).
Appearance-wise, they look like some small tentacles, very short, do seems to swing a bit.
Noticed both of my Nemos nip-nip at them using mouth.

Can't tell how long they been there, maybe 1 - 2 months. Only noticed them as my anemone is shrinking , reveal the spot usually cover by it.

[Gobie]

yes they are clown fish eggs.

[EQCM2B]

If they were clown eggs wouldn't they be a red or pink in color? Do they take 1-2 months to hatch?

[Gobie]

They start out orange then they turn silver with eyes if you look closely. My clowns lay eggs all the time.

[Kelmen]

Wow! Responded so fast ... hehe ... thx, brothers.

I'm going through some articles reading on rearing them. I will only reuse the main tank for this purpose as well, probably setup a small section for them, problem is to provide them live-food...

I read that they will continue to lay eggs many many time later on.
So, I guess I have many gracious times for "failure" ?

[EQCM2B]

Best of luck.

[Kelmen]

found an online ref for the rearing topic, quite good:

http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=e...cques952&meta=

[Neardaocean311]

cool

[Kelmen]

Found out this morning, all the eggs gone!

I believe they probably hatched at last night, and highly all succumbed to the powerhead and skimmer

I thought only some will hatch 1st, then I can closely monitor and catch the next hatching. Bad thought

Next time will try manually remove some of those eggs...

[Gobie]

I just watched my clowns lay eggs again today, the ones before these just hatched, so I think your clowns will lay eggs again soon.

[phender]

Originally posted by Kelmen
......Next time will try manually remove some of those eggs...

They will likely lay again within the next two weeks.

I'm not sure what you meant by removing them, but Clownfish eggs will not hatch if they are removed from their rock. They need to be attached for the fry to wiggle their way free. You could remove the entire rock.

[Gobie]

If they keep laying them in the same spot, you could try putting a tile in the spot to see if they will lay the eggs on the tile. Then all you have to do is remove the tile when their ready.

[Kelmen]

They just have a batch of eggs again! This time I spotted that they have a small tube from their abdomen (definitely their reproduction -gun- ) pose out.

Mmm... I will have to research more how should I remove those eggs. It's definitely very hard for me to predict or stand-by whole night any-dunno-when to catch those new hatchlings... and I doubt posting a tile will really can trick them. Anyway, research is my current task....

Thx for the feedback, bros.

[mobert]

Count how many days it takes to hatch. Usually the 7th to 9th night. Your next batch will most likely hatch the same number of nights later. On hatching night, you can turn off anything that will harm the larvae and collect them. Just be sure to turn everything back on.