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Can you post a picture of your sumpless reef tank?
Sure ! The first one is from yesterday.

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Are you feeding the tank any BBS/pods/etc. for the babies to eat?
I feed the fish (clowns x 2 and YWG) frozen brine shrimp and I also give the tank a mixture of some Hikari Seaweed Extreme and Hikari pellets that are supposed to be for carnivore fish (can't remember name). The pellets all sink relatively quickly.
 

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I feed the fish (clowns x 2 and YWG) frozen brine shrimp and I also give the tank a mixture of some Hikari Seaweed Extreme and Hikari pellets that are supposed to be for carnivore fish (can't remember name). The pellets all sink relatively quickly.
If any survive with that, let us know - typically you need live prey for larvae to feed on, as most larvae just don't eat unless the food is a specific size and moves in a specific way (and they need a specific nutritional profile to survive too). For shrimp aquaculture, they (at least typically) use baby brine shrimp for this until the larval shrimp are about 2 weeks old, at which point they start adding things like small pellet foods to the diet as well.
 
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If any survive with that, let us know - typically you need live prey for larvae to feed on, as most larvae just don't eat unless the food is a specific size and moves in a specific way (and they need a specific nutritional profile to survive too). For shrimp aquaculture, they (at least typically) use baby brine shrimp for this until the larval shrimp are about 2 weeks old, at which point they start adding things like small pellet foods to the diet as well.
Frozen or freeze dried? BBS is new to me.
 

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Frozen or freeze dried? BBS is new to me.
The baby brine shrimp is live for aquaculture, not frozen or freeze-dried. It's typically hatched on site in a brine shrimp hatchery, then the proper stage of brine shrimp is collected and fed to the larvae. (Frozen, freeze-dried, etc. brine shrimp wouldn't move, so they wouldn't entice a lot of species' larvae to eat.)
 
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The baby brine shrimp is live for aquaculture, not frozen or freeze-dried. It's typically hatched on site in a brine shrimp hatchery, then the proper stage of brine shrimp is collected and fed to the larvae. (Frozen, freeze-dried, etc. brine shrimp wouldn't move, so they wouldn't entice a lot of species' larvae to eat.)
I see now. I don’t think there is any chance of getting some of these where I am.

Will cross my fingers that what I do have is good enough.

I do see pods running around near where the babies are usually so maybe they will eat them.
 
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