I've read of people having a 10-20% live rate with brine. Also from what I've read they come out ready to eat live food by latching onto it so no green water. I'm sure any pod would be better then brine. I picked up tiger pods and brine eggs today. I have about 5 live fry in a small jug with a heater and air stone. I put some of the pods in there. Tomorrow I'm setting my pico tank up to transfer the 5 fry into and have it ready for the next spawn. I also picked up a net to catch the spawn with. I'll be watching this daily now so next time I hope to catch the momma early and move her over to the new tank before she lays. I know this might delay the next spawning but I have 10 sexies of which its about a 50/50 male to female ratio in my tank. There in a 14G BC with a mandarine so there VERY happy. Also I spot feed every week which really perks there activity. I'm reading more on it tonight to see at what rate others have seen spawnings take place.
Howard I would be more then happy to give you some fry if things line up with spawnings and my trips to dallas which have been very rare as of late. I can order pods but I'm no longer growing phyto so I would take that over having you spend money. This has really re-ignited my passion. I got to burned out making this new LED light and just stopped all projects and extra care. I spent 4 days working on the breadboard for that light and just got tired of having no down time. Things are starting to slow down with work so I hope to follow through on the light, these sexies and prior commitments to forum members that I have not followed through on.
The x-men paly project is dead in the water though. I lost half the polyps to starfish from hell. I am however EXTREAMLY happy they went after the x-men and nothing else.
Back to the sexies though. The full grown ones need a very calm tank. no aggro from other fish. They also need something to host. They like rose tips the most I think but have seen them host larger rics and xenia. The fry need very VERY low flow. Aside from that it doesn't look to hard to grow them out.