damsels wont stop spawning

[blueyota]

wow!! they are really busy ....the third batch of fry hatched last night and i just caught the female laying more eggs (thought she looked a little fat) hahaha ......will these little guys survive or should i get a fish that will eat them...what fish will eat the fry....they hatch every seven or eight days...so i got another week to figure this out.... thanks for reading !!!

[blueyota]

there are loads of eggs and last night under the moon lights all you could see was little glowing fish (from blue led moon lights ) every where

[fdiddy]

Although it is true that captive bred fish save wild caught ones, but most LFS "probably" won't take damsels because the price that you would sell them to the LFS would be too high compared to the sale price. Cost of keeping them would be larger than the profit gained. If you could raise 1 or 2 at a time, then sure, but an entire batch? I would suggest trying to raise only a few, if you raise too many odds are you won't be able to get rid of them.

[mike31154]

I dunno, from everything I've read in order to raise marine fish larvae you need to get them out of the display into a separate tank to:

1. avoid predation by other livestock
2. feed them live rotifers, for which you need phytoplankton
3. probably missing a number of other points, but

It's quite a work intensive project and as mentioned at the price of the average damselfish, you'll certainly not recoup any of your costs. Could be a fun project though, good luck.

[spoot]

You can also try feeding them micro pellets designed for fish fry. Not sure if they can catch up to the food if the flow is too high in the tank, although there has to be slower flow areas and that's where they will amass.

[justinl]

fish larvae don't like prepared foods (whiich are often too big). i would be very surprised if it ate them. rotifers are usually seen as mandatory in clown breeding. good luck either way.

[atcguy]

let em spawn, healthy tank obviously!!!!!! just more fish food for the others.!!!