green chromis
Dan-so these fry are still at the plankton stage is what you are saying? I am still learning about this but I would think they would be ok with what they are getting off the live rock at that stage but eventually will need more food. With freshwater fish we can feed straight BBS after the first week, before this time it's stuff like vinegar eels, microworms, greenwater, rotifers and I also add algae and some volunteer infusoria I got last summer in an outdoor tank. Is it critical to gut load the daphnia for marine fish when they are at the BBS stage? I have never done that and have had 99% of my fry survive from hatch day to breeding size. Some other breeders have faster growing fish than I do though, with sporadic mortality, they use more supplements like HUFA's which I will get if necessary. I like my feeding regimen because even though my fish grow more slowly they tend to have better color and finnage. Do you know a lot about feeding marine fry cause I got the questions to go with the answers

Or if you can refer me to a chat group or website that would help that would be fabulous. With all the work I have been doing to raise cheap common fish and maintain aquascaped freshwater tanks I decided to try some saltwater fish, figured I would try that which has already spawned successfully in captivity. To get around the plankton complication and get going I am going to try Banggai cardinals if I can find anyone with captive bred specimens. I also raise killifish, freshwater shrimp, and birds. I know how to work hard to get the spawns raised, just need to know what work that entails. I am a book junkie too, if you can think of any outstanding titles to read.
Far as the green chromis go...
Sue, if you find at some point that you would like to sell some juvies to grow out or some adults later let me know, I would buy them and so would the fish store here. They want to get as much domestic bred stock as possible. It's their fault I have hopped the fence to marine mania, but I am still going to keep my killifish. They are amazing. I fancy small colorful fish like chromis and dottybacks and the cardinals for their odd appearance, and am actually more interested in invertebrate reef systems than fish since I can get plenty of fish eye candy out of the tanks I already have so my tanks will be very lightly stocked far as fish go. I didn't even know chromis did breed, and they were my first marine love. You know what will probably happen is I will go from breeding cheap freshwater fish to breeding cheap saltwater fish. If I can even get the whole thing to work out.
Thanks,
Kate B
kbird@munat.com