Clown fish breeding

[-RG-]

As some may know, I have a spawning pair of Ocellaris clowns. The female is normal orange and white, and the male is black and white.


As of right now I have 3 batches of baby clowns.
75days old - 3 surviving
50days old - 93 surviving
12days old - too many to count right now...maybe 150-200 surviving
The pics below will show a progression of development using pics from all 3 batches.
4 day old clowns


12day old clowns - getting their stripes

30day old clowns

50day old clowns - added DIY anemone



75day old clowns



Here is my setup for raising the fry any grow out.

Top shelf: phytoplankton, brine shrimp and grow out tank holding oldest clowns
Middle shelf: larval and grow out tanks. tank on the right is blacked out for new born fry
Bottom shelf: rotifers. I use a 3 bucket system now to ensure there are enough rots for the fry

Starting in August, and every few weeks after that, they will be ready to go to their new homes.
I would like to sell primarily to LFS's. Hopefully in the next few weeks I will be able to make it around to the stores. If not feel free to contact me.
Also if reefers want to come and pick some up they are more than welcome to.

Hope you enjoyed the pics

Rob
robertsgraham@gmail.com

[mandarin11]

Dude that's awesome!

I noticed you got a few abnormally striped ones in the lot, they should be worth more depending on who you sell them to. As for the breeding pair, awesomeness! Wouldn't it be great if they spawned you some black ones!

I hope mom and dad are doing great and getting plenty of high protein food (although you look like you know what you are doing)

[phoenixhieghts]

thats cool the colours of the babys - like a dark orange and some have black fins.
Shocking that only 3 survive the whole batch

[-RG-]

thanks

As for my oldest set of 3, i think it was a food issue in the beginning, also i was using a swing arm hydrometer for the SG. I can't stress enough the importance of a quality refractometer and good food for the clowns. Those 2 things dramatically improved my survival rate.

Rob

[Kate]

Are you using a koosh ball as an anemone? o.o

[baugherb]

Great job...

[jimwil22]

is it ok to check your hydrometer with another hydrometer ?
or have the lfs check your salinity ? nice clowns !

[-RG-]

Kate - yes those are koosh type balls. but they have been removed. they started to break down a little bit and release oils into the tanks. lost a few fish, so i tossed them and ran some carbon and everything was back to normal.

jimwil22 - thanks. i would just get a refractometer, i have no idea when my swingarm went bad. plus refractometer was pretty cheap on that big auction site on the internet.

Rob