True Percula & Snowflake Spawning Pair

[wbtt18]

I have a spawning pair. The female is True Percula & the male is Snowflake. Is anyone know what will their offspring going to look like?

[Amie]

Awesome, I'm sure.

[wbtt18]

I'm hoping to have a good batch hatch and survive so I know for sure what I'll have.

[Luis A M]

Snoflakes are ocellaris,right?
So you´re making some kind of a picasso percularis

[wbtt18]

Guessing they'll produce True Percula, Regular Ocillaris and Snowflake. I have to wait and see than.

[Luis A M]

No way.Making an intespecific hybrid has no way back,you won´t obtain pure species again.

[wbtt18]

Luis A M, hope you are right and if they produce something different is better right.
They spawned a good clutch this time and they were about 60% hatched last night and hope the rest will hatch tonight.
Do you know how long I have to wait for the Fry to grow to be able tell what they are?

[Jclaas]

#updates please

[wbtt18]

Sorry, I didn't check back to this forum for awhile. last year I managed to raise the first 2 batchs and only about 40 survived from 2 batches. I got about 20 Snowflake and the rest are Oscillaries and True Perc.
For the last 9 months I was unable to keep any fry to survive past 10 days. Most of the babies started to die on the second day and all died by the 4 or 5 day. Sometime some of the babies passed Meta Phase but all died by the 9 or 10 days.
I'm very much frastration righ now and do not know why I could not raise them pass 7 or 10 days.

[superfish]

Sorry, I didn't check back to this forum for awhile. last year I managed to raise the first 2 batchs and only about 40 survived from 2 batches. I got about 20 Snowflake and the rest are Oscillaries and True Perc.
For the last 9 months I was unable to keep any fry to survive past 10 days. Most of the babies started to die on the second day and all died by the 4 or 5 day. Sometime some of the babies passed Meta Phase but all died by the 9 or 10 days.
I'm very much frastration righ now and do not know why I could not raise them pass 7 or 10 days.

i had the same issue when i first started to raise clowns.
did you enrich rotifers, and BBS? if not, this might be the issue.

[wbtt18]

Supperfish, Thank You for your help, I'm not sure what your mean by enrich rotifers.
I feed the Fry first with rotifers and after the 4 or 5th days add/mix BBS and rotifers. Fry still died before 10 days, sometime I did have only one survive.

[superfish]

i start feeding BBS(enriched with rotigrow or selcon) within the first 24 hours, try that. add a little everytime. if they eat well, add a little more.also make sure you use newly hatched bbs everyday.
also whats ur temperature. lower temperature => lower growth rate => lower survive rate.

[wbtt18]

Thanks Superfish,
I keep temperature between 81-83.
It's been a long time and finally I have one batch that pass 20 days old, hoping they will make it through this time.
I have difficult time to keep my systiem Nirate NO3 below 200 PPM, any advice is greatly appreciated.