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Lost the A. tonsa. Grr. Rots are just about ready.
Sixline wrasse embryonic development series.
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Hi Frank! I just wanted to give you an update.
I'm starting to play around with disinfection procedures. I have a larval tank ready and will go with any prolarvae that I can find.
138 sixline eggs collected tonight, placed in a yogurt container of newly-dechlorinated broodstock tank water. Just for fun, I took a photo of a group with the camera instead of the microscope.
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Hey andy, i've been following your build thread and all i have to say is that this is awsome that you are incorporating reproduction into your tank. Some day i would love to try and raise some fish myself, but alas i am a poor college student haha. Anyways great job on everything, if i can get a tank going i might be hitting you up for some advice 
-Brady
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Hiya Brady! Breeding fish needn't be any more expensive than any other part of this hobby. Heck, you can get started with clowns with a couple of ten gallon tanks (one for broodstock and one to raise babies in). An air pump and some gang valves and you're good to go. By some soda for algae cultures and use some old salt buckets for rotifer cultures. Try to see if anyone near you can sell you some cheap starter cultures of algae and rots (heck, one of the profs in the biology dept. might give you some). Heck, take a class with a biology prof that likes fish and talk to him. He might help you out a lot! Old people who teach are often funny that way. If you show interest in something they know about, they often will bend over backwards to help you out. At any rate, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than a reef tank. I'd probably add a third 10 gal. tank for growing out the juveniles so I could raise more batches, but you don't have to.
Of course, you can later add more and fancier things, buy algae, etc., as you think you have the budget for it. But it doesn't have to be expensive. Save up money for grow out foods.  Heck, you could raise the larvae in salt buckets, too, if you want to. Be creative.
Heck yeah, though. Ask me whatever you'd like.
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The disinfection protocols seem to be really helping. Lots of embryonic development from a whole bunch of embryos.
And 189 more eggs tonight!
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Many, many more prolarvae than I am used to getting, so I'm very excited by the disinfection.
This one has roughly my normal amount of post-processing:
This is push pretty far so you can see structures:
And with crude labels:
And another prolarva:
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What a pleasure to see... thank you!
.Anthony Calfo
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Great shots again andy! I actually had a pair of clowns that had started breeding (they were together for about 2yrs) they had hosted in my xenia a few months prior and then had cleared out a spot on the rock to lay eggs. I think she laid about 4 clutches before i decided to pull the xenia as it was getting out of control  . And as expected she stopped laying eggs, but not to long ago i had started to plan out a system with xenia for her and her mate to host in and lay eggs. Unforunately one day she decided to tackle a piece of squid to large for her mouth...it got stuck and she choaked on it. I tried to catch her to get it out but she was too fast and i had to go to work . So now i am left with her mate and another clown i bought not too long ago hoping they will start the ritual yet again.
-Brady
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