lbiminiblue
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by dirty do you mean dirt or algae? Because you need SOME algae in every tank, it's never a good thing to wipe it all out. read up, and if you can't figure it out, break all of them up into diff. pairs.
so no luck breeding? Keep us posted.it has been a few months ago but still all my pairs are not yet breeding. i stopped feeding them brine shrimp and mysis so I can remove the idea of them having egg bound. but still no luck. i feed them lots of flakes and pellets. I have a friend that has a breeding pair. here are their babies. I was the one who got the eggs and grew them. I have 3 batches
so they're actually laying?? that's great!! I hear that clownfish take a while to really get some experience in the mating process and eat their first few. But 6 times?? I think that's a little too much. i'm not sure if BOTH fish or just the female eat the eggs, but I don't think a sex change will help a ton. Keep us posted.Now I have seen the pair that has been trying to lay eggs for quite a while now and all i see are white dots. This is what I saw while theyre doing it. Theyre doing the normal "passing" on the pot, female first, then the male "tries" to pass to the eggs too. For every pass, I saw the female lay 1-2 eggs. Then the male and female eats them. Then the female lay eggs again then eat again. So they have been doing this for 5-6x already. I thought they never had eggs but theyre were just eating them. What should I do? My big problem here is that even the female eat the eggs. They both eat their eggs. Is there even a chance that the female will stop eating her eggs if I change her partner? Or she will never learn from it because its already been 6x atleast?
That's bizarre. I know clownfish need to maintain their eggs. Maybe, when they lay the eggs, net the clowns before they can eat them. THen, get a mated pair that has the most interaction between themselves and put them with the eggs. MAYBE, they'll take care of the eggs like their own, or they may eat them. If they eat them, it may trigger a response to lay, I'm not sure. I know this method is used with finches- i.e a zebra finch lays eggs and a baby falls from its nest- the parents will REFUSE to receive the baby, and will continually push it out once it's left the nest prematurely. If you put that baby with society finches, they'll accept it and raise it. Not sure if this will work with fish, which i believe are a little less personal. But it's worth a shot, and if you don't stress the clowns too much, it should be fine. I would try this.yes! they are laying. after every 2 eggs laid, they will eat them then lay again and yes they have been doing this ever since. This is the first time i saw them do it but probably they do it every time. now i see LOTS of white dots in the pot. so if they dont eat the eggs, i will have lots of eggs by now yes both the male and female are eating the eggs. the thing is, i have 8 pairs in the tank and this is the only pair thats laying regularly but they eat all the eggs. i wonder whats wrong with the other pairs? theyre atleast 2 inches big already.