Help re: clownfish babies

[onebadgt]

I'm so excited to have found eggs in my tank yesterday morning, but I would like to try to calrify a couple of things, if someone has any info that they could share.
1st - how do you feed/check on the babies who are so very sensitive to light? I'm terrified I am going to wipe them all out when doing so.
2nd - Also, has anyone tried the artificial foods that can be purchased? I am looking at a few that sound great, but I'm not sure if I want to risk my success on them. Any feedback - good OR bad - out there?

[usmc2b2004]

Congrats on the fry.

[crvz]

are they in a dedicated breeding tank? If not, I don't think you'll have success raising any of the fry. they're going to be fish food unless you remove the eggs into a dedicated system for raising them.

[Loverotties]

Congrads! Now you need to move them to another tank as Chris said.

[jenglish]

A seperate tank is needed to raise the fry (20-30 gallons for maximum yield). If you have a spare 10g then many clownfish breeders will paint 3 sides blue and the bottom black (on the outside ) so they can see the fry and the fry can find the food. I hear if you use PVC piece in a BB tank they will tend to place eggs on it so they are more easily moved. As far as prepared foods IDK. The traditional methodology is to feed live rotifiers and generally calls for raising them yourself as well as the green water required to feed the rotifiers. I have seen bottles marked "live rotifiers" but have no clue how effective they are. If you are interested I can post outlines for culturing both (from Aquarium Fish Breeding, Jay Hendall, Barrons 2003).

[onebadgt]

I have all of the info on culturing and such, but I was just curious about the artificial foods since they are sold by Dr. Foster. Thanks for all teh advice!

[Twitterbait]

the natural impulse is to eat live food, i would not waste your time with pre-prepared dead food.

if you have eggs now i hope you have your cultures going...