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Last night, i put the pregnant amano in a little container and now i have 100s of little larves floating around

I have a 2.5 gallon running on a air stone and i put 1 cup of salt mixes into it. The problem is i'm not sure how to work the hydrometer (coralife). Ok i understand i dip it into water and slowly let it fill up to the top of the dam. Then the needle rises and falls back down, am i suppose to catch it at the highest point and write down the salinity?

Also, do the larves eat Artemia for brine shrimps?

Thanks in advance!

No, you let it settle down and read it when it stops. Mix your salt really well in a blender for 5 minutes, then mix to the right concentration (35-36 ppt) and bubble air through it for 25 hours before use.

The zoes will be fine in fresh water for 4-5 days so don't panic. They also don't eat until the are in salt water and molt the 1st time. Do you have green water? Do you have some "golden pearls" to feed them?

do the larves eat Artemia for brine shrimps?

Don't use brine shrimp to feed them. Use green water and "golden pearls"

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The brine shrimp are just too big for the larvae to eat. All you'll get are some fat, happy brine shrimp (which is fine if that's your goal ). I'm going to try crushed spirulina flakes; it seems like that should work.

Crushed flakes will just foul the water. Golden Pearls are the real deal. Very close to neutral boyancy, so they stay in the water for a while and they are perfect size at 100-200 microns. They don't seem to foul the water in the very small amounts I'm using. The combo of algae and pearls is working well.

Are you sure? I got the idea from Mike Noran's article, where he says:

The larvae require fine-particulate food for the first weeks, after which they are capable of accepting larger food particles. Judging by published reports, the larvae can subsist on pretty much any food small enough - successful rearing have been reported using e.g. fine-crushed Spirulina-flake, and dry yeast.

(See http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm)

Also, the spirulina flakes are supposedly good for raising young invertebrates, and I'm not planning on feeding them too much.

The info is second hand. Try it and see for yourself, then you can tell us. The problem with most of these foods is they either float or sink, not stay in the water where they can be eaten.