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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 669573, member: 13650&quot;]I have the Clownfish book by Joyce Wilkerson.&nbsp; I&#039;ve read up on what it takes to raise the fry and it is A LOT.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve come very close to doing it in the past but I think eventually I&#039;d have way too much supply for the demand.&nbsp; Granted, you will not have success raising all 800 through metamorphasys to young fry but after a while, you could end up with several hundred pretty easily after you raise 10-20 batches.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; You have to have grow out tanks and you have to culture green water to feed rotifiers that you also have to culture, which feed the fry.&nbsp; Which means 7 bottles of green water bubbling all the time to have enough food on hand and rotifier cultures going in a couple tanks.&nbsp; Because the cultures can crash if contaminated.&nbsp; Then you have to raise decapsulated baby brine shrimp a.k.a. BBS (decapsulated so they don&#039;t choke on shells) once they get a little bigger (a few more millimeters longer!)&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; They are attracted to light so if you turn all the pumps off, you can shine a flashlight at the surface and they will all swim to it and you can scoop most of them out that way.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Anyway, long story short......... I have a small house, a limited budget and an already borderline tolerant wife.&nbsp; lol&nbsp; &nbsp; Not to say I won&#039;t ever give it a go someday.&nbsp;&nbsp; The equipment does add up though.&nbsp;&nbsp; No matter how simple a set up you want to do.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Then you need buyers or seperate tanks once they get bigger because they&#039;ll eventually fight and kill each other as they mature.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I know a guy in Canada that raises Onyx Perculas and he has hundreds of them!&nbsp;&nbsp; He sells a lot but it doesn&#039;t matter.&nbsp;&nbsp; He has an awesome setup for raising them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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