Breeding Start-up
- Thread starter Guy W
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Brain, yes I have been finding that people are feeding Cyclopeeze instead of Artemia to the fry after the rotifer stage.
Right now from what I understand you can do the following, but I'm just learning about this... literally as we speak.
Step 1 - Hatch Clownfish Fry
Step 2 - Fry will eat Rotifers for 7 days up to 2 weeks.
Step 2.5 - You have to feed the rotifers if you want to culture them and not buy them all the time. I thought you had to do with by growing green water phytoplankton. But infact you can feed the rotifers Instant Algea.
http://www.instant-algae.com/aquarium/zooplankton/index.htm
Step 3 - At about 1 week you start feeding Artemia to the fry, which are newly hatched brine shrimp. If the brine shrimp aren't eaten within 12 to 24 hours they will be too big for the fry. On the plus side you can feed the adult brine to your adult clowns.
Or
You can feed the fry Cyclopeeze, which is a freeze dried copeopod, and some feedings of Selcon enriched Artemia.
Thats as far as I've gotten at this point. I don't know at what point you can feed the babies prepared foods. But I think they will eat adult Brine Shimp withing 3 weeks to a month so I would assume you can try frozen foods at that time too.
But I'm learning more.
Guy
Right now from what I understand you can do the following, but I'm just learning about this... literally as we speak.
Step 1 - Hatch Clownfish Fry
Step 2 - Fry will eat Rotifers for 7 days up to 2 weeks.
Step 2.5 - You have to feed the rotifers if you want to culture them and not buy them all the time. I thought you had to do with by growing green water phytoplankton. But infact you can feed the rotifers Instant Algea.
http://www.instant-algae.com/aquarium/zooplankton/index.htm
Step 3 - At about 1 week you start feeding Artemia to the fry, which are newly hatched brine shrimp. If the brine shrimp aren't eaten within 12 to 24 hours they will be too big for the fry. On the plus side you can feed the adult brine to your adult clowns.
Or
You can feed the fry Cyclopeeze, which is a freeze dried copeopod, and some feedings of Selcon enriched Artemia.
Thats as far as I've gotten at this point. I don't know at what point you can feed the babies prepared foods. But I think they will eat adult Brine Shimp withing 3 weeks to a month so I would assume you can try frozen foods at that time too.
But I'm learning more.
Guy
I recently(this week) started feeding cyclop-eeze to my tank. Let me tell you this stuff is like crack for fish, shrimp & corals. When I add it everything in the tank goes nuts. I think I read somewhere that seahorse fry will eat cyclop-eez, that is why I suggested it as a food source. I also think I read somewhere that clownfish breeders were using the freez dried cyclop to induce mating and then feeding the fry the frozen product because it is smaller and retains more nutrition.
Brian
Brian
It's good to hear that your fish took to the Cyclop-eeze so well. I actually picked this stuff up at my LFS recommendation last week, not really knowing what it was. I haven't tried feeding it yet but I am looking forward to seeing the positive results.
Guy
