Banggai not as easy as the clowns, white eggs? Do I treat?
Hi I'm Jill, I'm new to this forum. I breed percula clowns, I like my babies that have an oval instead of a second bar, some have an oval on the top, some in the middle.
I find cleaning the larva tank to be very difficult, I often have more than one run up my siphen hose then I spend the next 10 minutes trying to catch them. I feed them rotifers fed with my nano. oculata culture, after they eat about 2 hours I sieve them out and feed them to the larva. I did my last batch coculture of larva with greenwater and rotifers, they did well but what a pain to clean!
My banggai laid eggs Dec 23, I took them form the male the 28th and they have eyes in the egg tumbler and two hatched. 4 or 5 of the eggs were white, I seperated them out with a "delecate operation" and put them back in the tumbler. They are soooooooooooooooooooooo cute, I hope they make it. I don't know why they turn white, I don't know if it is a fungus I need to medicate or what. I wake up every day hopeful but with 15 alive, of which 2 are hatched today. I think they seem to be hatching too early. ANybody know? They are all egg sac now, but what, when and how to feed them I am researching. Any tips are appreciated. The clowns I do well, 90% success, sadly I'm not doing as well with the banggai .I took the eggs because dad eats them day 5 every time. Is it fungus that makes the eggs white? I seperate them out and put them suspended in my tumbler. Should I treat them? one of 3 that hatched died, 12 more not hatched yet but look great.
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Originally Posted by Pennies2Cents
White eggs??? Why, OH Why, soooooooooooooooo sad
Thank you, my Banggai eggs, one each day, turn white then die. The eggs that hatched so far, only one is alive, why do they turn white? is it a fungus? What Do I treat with, and what dose, and for how long. Im soooooooooooooooo sad when they don't make it!
Thank you everybody. I treated the eggs in a nice big heavy vase with a wide opening going down to a very narrow center, I filled it with their tank water, took them out of the tumbler, and treated the 1 quart vase with 3 drops of meth blue, I put an air stone up top and it is creating just enough flow for the eggs to slightly lift and swirl slowly and a little gentle jump every so often. The fungus is now gone and the bay is still alive, the other live ones were too far gone by the time I found out about the meth blue. The live baby is soooooooooo cute, he takes a little jumping swim here and there, and likes to look aroung, its funny he looks right back at me! The five eggs look really good and healthy. I carefully seperated the cluster so the live baby did't keep getting stuck in the the web of the egg mass. The circulation of the eggs and movement is better with out them stuck together, now its more like the cichlids I used to raise. 
