Hey Guys,
So this is for my Spawning Clownfish. I'm hoping to be raising fry soon. The pair is steadily laying eggs just about every two weeks. I plan on setting up a 10 gallon for the larvae/newly hatched fry. Then maybe about 2 weeks later once they pass Meta and are feeding on crushed pellets/flakes I will move them into the 20 gallon for grow out. After that they are on to there new homes. I don't plan on raising every batch so the 2 tanks and small amount of phyto and zooplankton should be sufficient. I know here on MFK were mostly FW but I thought this might work for raising food for delicate FW fry as well so I figured I would post it. Right now this is just the pictures of the culturing station.
It's (3) 2 liter bottles for growing the phytoplankton and for now a 1 gallon tub for rotifers, though I might use a 5 gallon bucket sooner if its not enough. Whisper 40 pumping a gentle stream of air into each bottle/container for oxygen and to create a gentle current. I'm using a 24'' T5 rotatable strip light so I can point it directly at the bottles, soon to be on a 16 hour on 8 hour off cycle.
Hopefully this will be helpful in some way to freshwater fry.
Let me know what you guys think. I know its an extremely aesthetically pleasing but thats just how my work goes.
So this is for my Spawning Clownfish. I'm hoping to be raising fry soon. The pair is steadily laying eggs just about every two weeks. I plan on setting up a 10 gallon for the larvae/newly hatched fry. Then maybe about 2 weeks later once they pass Meta and are feeding on crushed pellets/flakes I will move them into the 20 gallon for grow out. After that they are on to there new homes. I don't plan on raising every batch so the 2 tanks and small amount of phyto and zooplankton should be sufficient. I know here on MFK were mostly FW but I thought this might work for raising food for delicate FW fry as well so I figured I would post it. Right now this is just the pictures of the culturing station.
It's (3) 2 liter bottles for growing the phytoplankton and for now a 1 gallon tub for rotifers, though I might use a 5 gallon bucket sooner if its not enough. Whisper 40 pumping a gentle stream of air into each bottle/container for oxygen and to create a gentle current. I'm using a 24'' T5 rotatable strip light so I can point it directly at the bottles, soon to be on a 16 hour on 8 hour off cycle.
Hopefully this will be helpful in some way to freshwater fry.
Let me know what you guys think. I know its an extremely aesthetically pleasing but thats just how my work goes.
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