How do I keep clownfish fry alive?

[usflaw07]

Hello everyone:
Okay here's what happened: I woke up last night about an hour after the fish tank lights went off (10PM every night), and I noticed hundreds of tiny fish swimming around. The only other fish in my tank are a pair of tank raised true percula clowns - well, this is what the store advertised them as when I bought them a year ago. One clownfish is about 3", the other is half his size and she always follows the larger one around. The tank has about 30-40LBS purple and red colored rock, mushroom corals, cleaner shrimp, an unknown crab with claws bigger than his body that came with the rock and who I can’t catch, snails, and blue legged crabs- some with shells they stole from certain snails that kept falling upside down in the sand. Anyway, I swirled my brine net around trying to catch the fry for about 4 minutes until my GF got mad and told me to go sleep. Then I emptied what I had into a plastic cup, and placed the cup in the fish tank. (see picture) My filter (350 magnum) and skimmer (seaclone) caught all the remaining fry by the time i got up. Today I felt bad that the poor little guys were starving, so I went to the local fish store, told my story, and the clerk sold me a refrigerated bottle of "algae enhanced rotifiers" to feed the fry. The little fish swim in 2 groups, 1 group of about 40 fish at the top of the cup, 1 group of about 50 fish at the bottom. There are a few that swim on their own. I see no casualties so far, but I can’t tell if they actually ate the rotifiers so I’m worried they’re hungry. I also gave them smashed marine flakes, which several fry threw themselves at (it was very amusing … ), but in the end the flakes ended up floating uneaten to the bottom. I suctioned most of the flakes out.

Picture: see picture at: http://www.geocities.com/usflaw07/clownfrytiny.bmp )
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The issue: My question is, what do I have to do so that these guys don't starve to death or otherwise die?

Thanks in advance for your time!
Andrew

[VWD]

Welcome to TRT!!!


I am outthe door and will read everything tonight, We are in the new stages of Clowns fish breeding. Have a Good Day

[fish.freak]

are they still alive?

if you made this far I will be impressed. Try zoe, or rotifers for food. Are they still in the main tank?

[VWD]

Yea , I failed on this post, I was going to get back and never did. I feel bad about it, Not that I am any type of expert on them as we are trying at this time to raise them, Let us know what happened

[swjunkie]

New to the site and just woundering how the little guys are? One thing I did notice in your post is... the female is the larger of the 2 so it would be the daddy folowing her around. please let us know how everything is.
Best Wishes!

[Bubbashrimp]

Make what is called "green water"(algae), feed this water to LIVE rotifers,move the larvae to a smaller tank(10 gal) when ready to hatch(silvery color from eyes), Juggle rotifer and green water reserves so they do not crash, feed them these until they can be moved on to baby brine shrimp. and most importantly PERFORM WATER CHANGES UNTIL YOUR SICK TO DEATH OF CLOWNFISH BABIES...but if your hardcore into clownfishes I strongly recommend CLOWNFISHES by Joyce D. Wilkerson

[BLEEZY]

females are always the biggest of the pair of clownfish, when there is a big harem of clowns the dominant one will change into a female and the other smaller ones stay male if the female dies the next most dominate male takes the place.

right?
or am i retarded and this is some other fish or something that i somehow jumbled in my brain?

[BLEEZY]

no i am right they are protandic hermaphrodites(spelling...)