A little background first: I have been keeping saltwater tanks off and on for bout 7 years now. I picked up a bonded pair of Black and White Misbar Osc. (Tank-bred) in January for my 29gal bowfront. The previous owner told me the pair never had shown any signs of spawning in the 3 years of having them. The female (Gothica 5yrs) and the male (EmoNemo 3yrs) started to show breeding behaviors once I put them into my 90gal. Moving them to the 90gal was an attempt to make them a little less aggressive towards me, which was a complete failure. Anyhow I decided to try and raise the fry that my Misbars were about to have.
Having no idea what to do I did research on the internet. Found an awesome site: breedclownfish.com which gave me a good idea on how I could actually do this successfully. I had 2 10gal tanks ready to go for my first fry hatchings. First batch I caught about 20 fry with a siphon hose in which only 2 survived. :no: Disheartened by this I had high hopes for the next batch. (Discovering that my salinity was 1.028 in the first batch.) Caught only 15 this time and about 7 survived to the 10 day mark. Little better but not what I was hoping for.
Disaster Strikes! I miss the third hatch night and come home to find the only surviving fry I had to have expired due to heater malfunction. Back to square one...
Beginning of October: Hatch night I catch about 30 and 20 survive the 10day mark. The following weeks about the same numbers in surviving fry. Now I feel like I got this process down.
Having no idea what to do I did research on the internet. Found an awesome site: breedclownfish.com which gave me a good idea on how I could actually do this successfully. I had 2 10gal tanks ready to go for my first fry hatchings. First batch I caught about 20 fry with a siphon hose in which only 2 survived. :no: Disheartened by this I had high hopes for the next batch. (Discovering that my salinity was 1.028 in the first batch.) Caught only 15 this time and about 7 survived to the 10 day mark. Little better but not what I was hoping for.
Disaster Strikes! I miss the third hatch night and come home to find the only surviving fry I had to have expired due to heater malfunction. Back to square one...
Beginning of October: Hatch night I catch about 30 and 20 survive the 10day mark. The following weeks about the same numbers in surviving fry. Now I feel like I got this process down.