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02/13/2019, 08:14 AM | #1 |
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Why are my clownfish babies dying?
I have been breeding clownfish for fun for a few years now and never had this issue so I figured I would ask for some help. Starting at around day 30 the clownfish babies are dying slowly overnight. They are raised in a 10 gallon tank and I use a seeded sponge filter. Daily 2-3g water changes. I’d there anything happening in the nitrification cycle around the 30 day mark that would tend to kill small clownfish? Any advice is appreciated.
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02/16/2019, 04:51 PM | #2 |
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Are you testing for nitrates? Do you have reason to suspect it's nitrates? Do you test ammonia? What are you feeding them?
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03/29/2019, 04:36 PM | #3 |
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I would say they are not eating
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04/01/2019, 07:24 PM | #4 |
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04/25/2019, 04:15 AM | #5 |
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Feeding too much brine shrimp, especially unenriched, tends to do that.
I lost a lot of anemonefish and marine betta fry to that until I identified the Artemia as the trigger. After switching sooner to different foods the dying stopped. Under the right conditions, anemonefish will take small frozen copepods at about day 5 after hatching.
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