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Old 12-01-2011, 04:24 AM
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Step 2 - get some bacon..... Lol

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When I read the title of the thread that was the first thing that popped into my head but you beat me to it.....
A couple of smart arse's ^^

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Do nothing but enjoy your fish. Yes you could theoretically one day try to raise fry but to mobilize a fry rearing setup now would be a futile race against the clock.

Usually once clowns settle in and start spawning it is a regular event. My ocellaris are almost never without eggs.

If you really did want to consider raising the fry, there is a good book called "Clownfish" by Joyce Wilkerson which details the various species, their biology and how to raise clownfish fry including getting rotifers and greenwater cultures going and so on.

They'll hatch and be good fish food. Yeah, it sucks, but so does life in the ocean if you think of it. For a fish species population to be stable, on average one mated pair need only produce two fish to replace them in their lifespan. Now consider that they'll lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs every two weeks, the number of fry they produce versus the number that need to survive has a huge disconnect. Mother Nature is a harsh mistress!
That's kind of what I figured too, oh well. It is cool to actually see in one of my tanks though.
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