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Many here have kept live rock live for a week in a bucket with a powerhead for water circulation. The sand will settle after 2-4 days and then likely will be stirred up again once you put in your sump. It won't be a big deal. Just please don't jump ahead and get fish and corals at this point. Please finish getting your tank set up, cycled and yourself acclimated to this tank BEFORE doing anything else. If you choose not to, then there will not be a wonderful tank that is functioning well. In the meantime go read the posts for beginners and check out the sections to ask more questions. Our group here is wonderful to work with and doesn't mind answering questions.

Thanks Air,Water and Ice for the Gift certificate! It's appreciated.

Almon, thanks! I will try a flowerpot. My clown had fuzzy lips again the same week as the hatch- but I think the 'nem covered them up (And ate them?? Is that possible?)as they were missing the next day and my DD saw the eggs. I still have my Qt up and running just in case.

HI! Sounds good but I found it very funny that I had some typos in my post saying I'd proofread... LOL!

HI! Welcome to the club! I would wait and plan things out. So many of us do go out and spend big $ only to find that it doesn't work or due to the way the tank is, the coral doesn't grow. Give your tank a little more time and think about what you'd want. Then come on down and see some tanks and buy a few corals and see how they do. You won't regret it.

I had the filter running PRIOR to adding the rock but it was turned off before the rock was added and ONLY the airstone was running once the eggs were added. Sigh. I may never figure it out. BUT I am hoping to get more eggs and I think she laid some today as her lips are fuzzy again and my DD said they did but I'm not finding them...

Are you coming to the meeting? If so p.m. me and I'll bring you a nice red frilly mushroom.

Jan, I am still interested. I like to proof read but I'm NOT IT savy. I can proof email articles and the like. Wiht help I could learn more. LMK.

Do you need more Chaeto? I'm about to toss some. Call me and Mark or I can come over to TJ's/H mart area and meet up w/ you.

WOW! Have you done other lighting set ups? I like this idea. Welcome aboard!

Anyone already bidding? I'd like to bid on 1 lot but don't need that many items and currently it's .11. Not worth my putting out $100 to bid but I would be glad to work something out is someone else is bidding.

I used the SW from the DT tank and double checked w/ the refractometer. Both matched @ 1.22. The airstone was near but not hitting the eggs. Good questions! Could there have been too much O2 from the airstone?

The QT tank filter was not running and only the live rock ( no plants, no sand, no fish, no pumps running - only a battery operated bubbler) with the about to hatch fry were in the QT tank in temp of 82. The rock had the fry in the DT tank and was moved @ 3am immediatrly after lights out to the QT tank to hatch out. Almon, I'll leave the tank up to get them again to where they were but I'd like for someone else to get them through the meta/fry phase. Would you want them? I can try to raise them but my life is very full right now. I'd rather pass the about to hatch eggs off. It was really cool because the fry you could see them change! The eyes sent from black to a ring silver when a light was shined on them and I could see a couple of them fighting to free themselves from the egg/rock. Five hours later nothing was there. No eggs, no fry. Nothing. I didn't have the filter running and it has no other living organism that I could see other than the fish and some small bristle worms. I dislodged 2 and removed 2 just in case. The SW temp seemed high @ 82 but that's all I can figure. Any thoughts?

Well, I took the rock out at 3 and after an hour still no hatch. So I went to bed. Now 4.5 hours later, there are no eggs on the rock and no fry. They are gone! The eyes were definitely silver. It was so cool to see those eyes shine in the light of a flashlight with the lights off. Would bristle worms eat them? Do they just die off? Anyone want to way in? Almon? Jason?

ohhh, that would be very frustrating! Do you have Almon's phone #? I can get out tomorrow and yes, since I took my long nap to feel better, they have distinctly changed color. So I'm going to leave my lights ON until early this am and then transfer the rock to the QT tank. How long can the fry go with out food? A couple of hours? If they hatch in the Qt tank how do you transfer them to transport ( and what do you transport them in?)? I'll be up as I slept to long to go to sleep this early.

Do you have rots? Green water? How far is your access road off the main roads? Mark just came in and said all the main roads are great. Is it possible to get rots and green water from you if we were to drive? LMk.

Okay, so that means they should hatch in the next day (?!) or they should have already hatched... which means I should find some green water and rots for the new tots (sorry, it rhymed). BUT where? And not really, I don't want to raise them but I am more than willing to let someone get the eggs. Now how do I know the difference between black and silver eyes? Is it just the edges or the entire eye changes color or the entire egg? Yes, later I will go look at the mofib.org for more help. I just hope these guys hold off hatching until someone can get them! Added: Can I just take the rock with the eggs and the dad clownfish out and put into QT? Or will this throw a wrench into the works? I was just going to take the rock out but I don't know when to do it. BUT If I were to take dad with them, would that work? Then when the eggs hatch, he gets put back into the DT. Any thoughts?

eewww, yuck. I can't even imagine either situation. Keep trying, Dave! I'm rooting for you to find one and have the octopus to live.

okay, so now the eggs are still on the rock with distinctly fatter orange tummies with eyes and are ever so slightly turning very lightly silvery in color with slightly longer tails. The batch of 200? is down to about 30ish. Dad is still watching over them and every time I look charges the acrylic wall of the tank as well as any fish that dare come to close. Meanwhile, his mate is acting like she wants to lay another clutch or to be with him again but he chases her away too. So cabrego or anyone else, what is "green water"? How/what am I going to feed these little guys in a blizzardthat I'm snowed in? What tank temps are good? I've set my QT up with a HOB filter and temp set @ 79 and SGH @ 1.24 same as the DT and used 1/2 of DT water to put in QT. I have 2 small live rocks that I was planning on putting in to see if that would help give them a place to hide and some macros to help with the nitrates. When should the rock with the larvae be moved? The clutch was laid on Monday or Tuesday (?) but I'm not sure. They don't usually get this far. Last clutch was a 4x4 mass of bright orange,tightly packed eggs and within a couple of days was gone. Where are you reading about raising the fry/larvae?

HI! I have an empty 55 L in my shed you are welcome to. I'm in Gaithersburg near 124 and mid-county hwy. The plows and bobcats have come by many times today. If you have a 4WD truck you could come get it tomorrow. It is a HEAVY tank tough so it would take 2 guys to lift. LMK if you want to borrow it for a long time.

When we were out of power for 3 days I used the battery operated pumps too and alternated between tanks- FW and SW- and 1x a day put new warm water in from the gas stove. Everything else was off and didn't feed them but lightly 1x. I had just fed mine really well just the day before and was glad for it! I think we ran an electrical cord to my car's power outlet a couple of times for an hour max to run the pumps and get more water movement but I found it stressed out the fish and got them moving and thus using more O2! So we stopped and waited. Everything came through but I admit I do not have expensive fish or corals. Last time someone mentioned and diagrammed how to use an airstone and a tube (?) to get really good flow. Anyone remember that thread or how to do it?

Thank you, Justin (Ctenophore)! i'm going to set up the Qt- just in case.

ANYONE help? I have clown fish eggs ready to go on a medium sized rock. The clutch was laid last Monday or Tuesday. For those that want to do the raising, does anyone want these eggs that are soon to hatch? They now have eyes in them are about 25 eggs or does someone have rots or whatever to help me feed these guys?!! I don't really want to raise them through the fry stage but I would take them back and share them with someone who got them through that stage.

Anyone want ocellaris clown fish eggs?!! I have a rock that I can easily remove with eggs that have sets of eyes growing on them. They were spawned last week and these will be about a week old on Tuesday. About 50 eggs? Dad keeping a close eye on them.... You can call me @ 301 -452-5313. PLEASE! I can easily supply eggs with my regularly spawning O. clowns so LMK what to do from here!

Dave, I still have that heavy glass 45L or 55L if you need to borrow a tank for your wonderful octoguy. LMK. Once we are unburied you are welcome to it.