First time raising Black Ice clownfish

My husband and I decided to try raising the eggs our Black ice clownfish have been laying. We got everything setup and have two good rotifer cultures going.

on night 8 we stayed up until 6am waiting for the fry to hatch and only one hatched.    It didnt survive. I think it was premature.   I also think we delayed the hatcing because we were both anxious and kept checking the eggs. With a flash light. On night 9 which was last night we turned all the pumps and lights out so the room was in complete darkness. We left the room for 45minutes and when we came back 98% of the eggs had hatched. Us being the the smart ones we are used my husbands cell phone flash light to attract the larval so I could siphon them. I bumped the phone and in the tank it went. So my husbands galaxy s4 is now fried. I'm hoping we'll be able to save at least enough fish to pay for his phone :/
Any ways I counted roughly 130 fry while siphoning.     I had rotifers and a little green water in some broodstock water I had prepared the night before. We added the fry and then I used a sieve to add some more rotifers. This morning I went to check on them and the fry looked a little sluggish so I feed rotifers again and all of them perked up and looked like they were doing great.
I'm excited to see how many survive and hoping to have some beautiful fish soon.
its definitely been a learning experience and a lot of work but it has been a ton of fun. I am still learning and probably will continue to do so even if I catch another batch later on.

This is a picture of the male daddy.   He is Premium Black Ice.

Close up of the eggs the night they hatched

Here is video of day 2 after hatch...

Day 2 Larvae

Edited by Snowwhire - February 20 2014 at 12:38pm

Cool!!!!
Shining a light directly on the eggs can/will cause a delayed hatch from day 8 to day 9.
There is usually high mortality rate around day 2 if you siphon, scoop is a much better alternative.
Good Luck. 

Some people may not know it, but Nick801 has also raised clownfish.

I agree with Shaun about scooping. When I siphoned the larvae, most of them started swimming in tight circles and died by the next day.

This is a video of how they are doing and what they look like today on day 4 after hatch.


Day 4 Larvae

Edited by Snowwhire - February 20 2014 at 12:42pm

I will definitely keep updating

Hmmm I was told to introduce the baby brine once a day at 5 days old but maybe I need to do some more research on that.