I had school last night and usually end at 9:30pm but it ran late. My tank lights gone off at 10pm. By the time I got home, the pump was still running and the lights were off. I turned on the light and already saw 2 crown fish fly swimming about. No sure how many got sucked into the overflow... The night should have been off only by a few minutes. I was surprised that they hatched that early...
I then turned off the pump and started a belated finishing touch to the larvae tank. I dumped all the testing water out from the larvae tank. (I had to leave it running for 24 hours to make sure the heater temperature match my main tanks). Got a couple of gallons of water from the main tank there and start catching the larvae using the white cup with flash light method. I was surprise how easy that was. That was my first time doing it. Very exciting.
Within minutes, I already got the hang of it and caught about 10-20 larvae into the cup. By 11am or so, there were so many larvae in the parent/egg tank. So overwhelming. I was thinking how on earth I can ever get every single one of them cup by cup to the larvae tank?!!
Running back and forth between the crown fish parent/egg tank and the larvae tank many many times, until 4am... I got the very last one. Turn on the pump a little, and turn on the light to make sure I got every single one of them. Of course there are a couple more. I did that a few times until I was sure everyone was caught. However, there are still some unhatched eggs.
About 5am, I had enough for the night. Left the pump off, put in a couple of air lines and went to bed. The next morning, check the tank, there were a few larvae swimming. I got them all into the cup in no time. The rock where the eggs were was plunked clean. Not a trace of any egg sack or anything on it. Amazing.
