So...we have a bunch of tanks. A lot of them are small (we've been enjoying experimenting with tiny tanks, most in the 1 to 2 gallon range), and some of them are temporary (e.g. the clownfish fry tank), but the unofficial rule is that for any permanent tank that's 5 gallons or larger, we assign it a Greek letter. (We just started cycling Epsilon, which is a 29 gallon.) Alpha has been around for a while. It's a Red Sea 20 gallon, and it's where Ozzie and Lara, our breeding pai

Last night I moved the eggs into the hatching tank, by transporting the tile that I had set up for Lara to lay on. I brought along some of the parents' water (it was a good excuse to do a water change in there), set up an airline tube to give them some oxygenation, covered up the tank to make sure it was nice and dark, and crossed my fingers. And...I awoke this morning to find the tank full of fry. They were tiny. It looked like a swarm of mosquitoes, not fish. Holy crap that

The beginning of a series of blog posts on raising clownfish.