Ok, this is day 4!
I certainly think I should haveat least caught a glimpse of one of these little guys. So, I was staring at the tank.......again. Desperately, looking for those two little eyes...somewhere. I've been thinking that the only thing I am feeding are pods.
Hmmm......so, where are the pods? I have certainly put at least a hundred of the little guys in there. With all the time I have spent staring at this tank, you would think I would have at least seen an amphipod running around somewhere.
So, is there at least one Octopus in there that is eating them? Or am I clinging to a desperate hope? Wanting at least one to be alive so badly that I am fooling myself with false logic.
Ammonia still holds at zero. So, I will continue to act as if I am feeding/raising something.
So, in the area of feeding: I am still feeding frozen mysis and cyclopeeze soaked in vitamins and garlic twice a day. Only a very small amount since spot feeding is out of the question. I try to suck out any leftovers I see with a 1/2g waterchange.
Clownfish eggs still haven't hatched. Maybe I am incorrect about the spawning day, but I was sure they would hatch Sunday night. I know I haven't spoken out loud about my intentions for the larva, so I don't know why they won't come out. The eggs have become the largest I have seen, if they don't hatch tonite, I think I can skip he rotifers and go straight to newly hatched baby brine as they will be thru metamorphysis (sp?)by then.
Picture of eggs attached.
Snails? I think I read on here that someone fed their octopus snails? I didn't know they might eat these. Correct me if I am wrong.
Well, I always have lots of baby snails on the glass in my Seahorse tank. (pic attached)
So, I scraped some off with my mag float, caught them in a net, and added them to the octo tank. Figured if they don't eat them, I could always use some clean up crew.
Also, attached pic of tank with 1g removed. That's it for today! I will be staring at the tank for awhile now. Maybe I'll see something!