Artificial hatch techniques?
Thursday, May 8, 2014 11:21 AM
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I seem to be having problems with artificially hatching eggs, particularly clownfish eggs. I can get my Priolepis goby larvae and clingfish larvae to hatch no problem, but those clownfish eggs are another story for me. I can't really let them hatch in tank (one tank is just full of aiptasia) because then I don't get many larvae (even when I use a snagger). I have tried scrape and tumble and get a few hatched, but not amazing numbers. I have tried multiple times to aerate the tile or clay pot, using new, aged ASW, but don't get great hatches. So for those of you out there that routinely pull eggs and hatch them in the larval tank, how exactly are you doing it? Do you use broodstock water, new ASW, or does it not matter? How much aeration, and where to you place the air stone? Tips and tricks? I may try broodstock water next time, just because I need to change something...
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