Maroon Clownfish eggs...

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your success only to be repeatedly denied....



"Pszemol" wrote in message
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Hi,
I would like to share some info about my clownfish with you.

Monday, late in the night, I noticed my pair of clowns
lied eggs on the bathroom tile I placed near their anemone.
Did not took the picture then, but the eggs were orange,
quite bright, uniformly colored and translucent...

Yesterday evening I moved the tile to take a photo.
The female clown was ****ed off but I bribed her with food :-)

Here is the link to some of the pictures:
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clowns_8_2005/
The ones with 8-11.* pattern are from yesterday.
I have enlarged one of the pictures and decided to count eggs:
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting0.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting1.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting2.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting3.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting4.JPG
I colored every single egg manually in Paintbrush program,
changing the color of my brush with every 20 eggs counted.
Then, I added all colored areas together and came up with
the number of eggs equal to 677. Pretty impressive...

The pictures from Wednesday (8-10.*) were not in focus so
the count I took on them is not as accurate, but I counted
much more eggs, almost 850. I am wondering what could be
the reason for diminishing number of eggs every day...
Could it be some predation ?

Anyway - I was wondering if anybody knows a computer program
I can use to count the eggs on the electronic picture in an
automatic way, without suffering dry eyes from counting dots
one by one ? :-) I tried to modify the picture to make it
black and white, and then count eggs, but the b&w conversion
did not work well on the colors I had on the picture...
I would like to count the eggs when I move them to the
fry tank, but I don't want to exercise my eyes too much ;-)
Any other ideas ?

p.s. I got the rotifers and algae culture running on high gear
in wait for the hatchlings... I am curious how will it work out.