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  Author Message TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Onyx percs Saturday, July 6, 2013 12:25 PM (permalink) 0 [Helpful answer received] / [List Solutions Only] 4 years ago I bought a captive bred pair of onyx clowns. I haven't been too serious about them breeding, even though that is why I got them. They are now sick of waiting on me and are regularly producing clutches. The first one I missed, but this one I know when they were laid down to the hour. Wish I could just remove the tile, but so far they wont lay on it, preferring to lay close their nem. I am committed at the moment to just trying to get what larva I can out of the brood tank, on hatch night. I think they should hatch to night, so any tips on getting them out of the main tank would be awesome, as I am all set and ready to raise babies.   #1 jazzybio13 Total Posts : 492 Scores: 5 Reward points : 274 Joined: 4/23/2013 Location: Ames, IA, US Status: offline MBI: 140 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 6, 2013 2:19 PM (permalink) 0 I would use a vossen larval trap... maybe you can do a rough DIY of it for tonight... ???     #2 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 6, 2013 2:34 PM (permalink) 0 Looks good, I am looking for an easy diy right   #3 jazzybio13 Total Posts : 492 Scores: 5 Reward points : 274 Joined: 4/23/2013 Location: Ames, IA, US Status: offline MBI: 140 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 6, 2013 2:38 PM (permalink) 0 other than that... turn your pumps off, and wait for about an hour to 2 hours after lights out on the tank and take a flash light to the top corner of the tank (somewhere easily accessible), wait till you see 'em, then scoop them up. (a cup works better than a net imo, unless you have a brine net).        #4 Amphispur Total Posts : 417 Scores: 0 Reward points : 853 Joined: 6/20/2012 Location: Larkspur, Colorado, AE Status: offline MBI: 380 Pnts MBI Site: The Southern Colorado Marine Aquarists Society Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 6, 2013 2:41 PM (permalink) 0 [This post was marked as helpful] FWIW, just use a mediumsized round tupperware container, put holes in the back for cups to hold it to the glass, have a screen on the back for making sure the larvae stay in side, and have some pairline to make sure to get some circular flow. Pretty much something sort of like this: http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/Amphispur/media/photo1_zps17329686.jpg.html http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/Amphispur/media/photo-1_zpsb366f611.jpg.html?sort=3&o=12   I've gotten some larvae collected from it so it does work. FWIW   #5 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 6, 2013 6:07 PM (permalink) 0 Great idea, hopefully if not this time next. Let you know tomorrow or Mon.   Thank you,   #6 jazzybio13 Total Posts : 492 Scores: 5 Reward points : 274 Joined: 4/23/2013 Location: Ames, IA, US Status: offline MBI: 140 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 6, 2013 7:06 PM (permalink) 0 yeah let us know when they hatch!     #7 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Sunday, July 7, 2013 4:33 PM (permalink) 0 Unfortunately nothing yet   But I only kind of though they might last night. Today they are silver, and I am prepared mostly. Still working on the fry catcher, but I figure if nothing else I'll scoop.  Hopefully we will have babies in the morning   #8 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:48 PM (permalink) 0 So I had a thought the other day, but thought it a bad one. Any way, the rock the eggs are on is completely moveable. The only reason I haven't moved it to a hatch tank, is because of the sizable BTA that lives on it. I don't want to shock the parents mostly. I am sure for a while w/ proper attention the nem would be fine in the other tank for the duration of the hatch.  I know every clown is it's own, but is this something that would likely shock them into not laying?   #9 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:36 AM (permalink) 0 I am happy to say the eggs finally hatched, though I only collected about 20 as my methods are still being figured out. The fry though seem very strong right out of the gate, and I think w/ some refining of my skills, I'll have happy healthy onyx clowns real soon   #10 jazzybio13 Total Posts : 492 Scores: 5 Reward points : 274 Joined: 4/23/2013 Location: Ames, IA, US Status: offline MBI: 140 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Onyx percs Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:09 AM (permalink) 0 yipee.... now raise em' up! fun fun fun!    #11 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:15 AM (permalink) 0 I am just happy to know how many days after their laid I can expect them to hatch. Now I can start getting serious about this. Expect to see a build thread real soon!   #12 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:24 PM (permalink) 0 Here is an okay pic of my babies!!   #13 GinaReef Total Posts : 225 Scores: -1 Reward points : 470 Joined: 8/29/2012 Location: Hamilton, ON, CA Status: offline MBI: 205 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Onyx percs Wednesday, July 10, 2013 6:24 PM (permalink) 0 Congratulations!  It feeels good doesn't it.  Have you got rots?   #14 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:13 AM (permalink) 0 Oh yes it feels great, I have almost everything. Phyto, rots and brine.....I want sieves though, so I can control water quality a little better.   #15 Reef Stew Total Posts : 9 Scores: 2 Reward points : 34 Joined: 10/2/2012 Location: Phoenix, Az, US Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Onyx percs Friday, July 12, 2013 11:24 PM (permalink) 5 [This post was marked as helpful] I don't have any pictures but take a 3 liter soda bottle & cut a large window in the side & put a stocking over it & stand it up in your sump. Now get a small plastic funnel & attach flex tubing over the funnel & create a syphon & put the tube in the top of the bottle. Put the funnel over the egg clutch. The trick is not to have to much water pressure & it will catch them.   #16 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 13, 2013 11:07 AM (permalink) 0 That is almost too simple, I'm going to try it w/ this next clutch. Any luck and I should get a new one by the 15th.   #17 TanksEveryWhere Total Posts : 41 Scores: 0 Reward points : 94 Joined: 11/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Captive Reefs.com Re:Onyx percs Saturday, July 13, 2013 9:06 PM (permalink) 0 Okay I always here people say there female clown looks fat and ready to lay. I guess now I am a believer, as mine is fat as all heck, and by my calendar and that should but down a new clutch any day   #18 Online Bookmarks Sharing: Facebook Digg Google del.icio.us StumbleUpon

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