A post about raising Clownfish Larvae. Bang guy the phone is for you.

keith burn

keith burn

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I will be starting a new addiction raising Clownfish.
If you have pis of set ups and good advice.
I have 2 pairs of gbm
1 pair of wbm
1 pair of False Percula
1 pair of Saddleback Clownfish
I may get 2 or 3 more pairs of clowns of what i have or new ones
Questions
what good books?
what you did?
what your set up is?
And about 1000 more...
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Originally Posted by hariii2
http:///forum/post/2511871
Start here:
Clownfishes, by Joyce Wilkerson. They sell it here.


Yep, Clownfishes is a great place to start.
I set a piece of shale in my display tank near where my Clownfish pair hangs out. You can see them in the pic spawning with their host in the background (a Green Hairy Mushroom).
 
bang guy

bang guy

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When the eggs have a silvery look to them they are about to hatch. I remove the rock and place it in a circular container, actually an oil pan, that has two bubble filters and in sitting in a larger container of water. The larger container has full biologic filtration and a heater. I do it this way so that the container the Clownfish Larvae are in can stay small and I don't have a heater in with the Larvae.
I have the eggs sitting on some PVC so that they are nearly at the surface and have steady waterflow from the bubble filters. I've found that having them this shallow give them better oxygen exchange and make it easier to have waterflow that targets every single egg on the rock.
More to follow later....
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Originally Posted by keith burn
http:///forum/post/2512654
In the display tank?
With fish?
So you do not need to have them in a tank without other fish?
Yep, it's in a full reef with fish, corals, Serpent Stars, etc. The parents will protect the eggs against anything and they are brutal!!
The female did this to my thumb once when I was removing the eggs:
 
vinnyl

vinnyl

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Hi Keith…. Sorry to hijack your thread… I have a quick question for Bang Guy…. on the same subject.
Bang: Is it possible to keep 1 Black & White False Percula and 1 False Percula in the same tank? Will they eventually be a pair? Is the BW Perc. just a morf or is it a totally different specie?
Tks
Vinny
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Originally Posted by Vinnyl
http:///forum/post/2512728
Hi Keith…. Sorry to hijack your thread… I have a quick question for Bang Guy…. on the same subject.
Bang: Is it possible to keep 1 Black & White False Percula and 1 False Percula in the same tank? Will they eventually be a pair? Is the BW Perc. just a morf or is it a totally different specie?
Tks
Vinny
Both of the names you listed are common names for the Ocellaris Clownfish. They are the same species and will usually become a bonded pair as long as they are not both females.
I really dislike the name False Percula because the Ocellaris is neither false nor a Percula. But it is a commonly used name for Ocellaris.
 
keith burn

keith burn

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Originally Posted by Vinnyl
http:///forum/post/2512728
Hi Keith…. Sorry to hijack your thread… I have a quick question for Bang Guy…. on the same subject.
np

And I am looking for all help with clown breeding not just from bang guy
So if you can help plese do...

Question how old do the clowns need to be for breeding?
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Originally Posted by keith burn
http:///forum/post/2512854
Question how old do the clowns need to be for breeding?
It varies by species. I believe my female Ocellaris was at about 2 years and the male 1.5 years when they started breeding.
 
viper_930

viper_930

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Originally Posted by Vinnyl
http:///forum/post/2512728
Bang: Is it possible to keep 1 Black & White False Percula and 1 False Percula in the same tank? Will they eventually be a pair? Is the BW Perc. just a morf or is it a totally different specie?
What you're asking about is actually exactly what Bang Guy has in his pic above.
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Originally Posted by keith burn
http:///forum/post/2514236
Bang guy do you have pic of the set up you use to grow food for the larvae?

I use two 40 gallon roughnecks with an open airline at the very bottom that slowly bubbles up. I keep them in the dark all the time. I feed the Rotifers bottled "Instant Algae". I harvest a lot of the Rotifers from both systems daily even if I don't use them. Leftovers go into my lagoon.
In the summer one of them goes outside to sit in the sun. The sun feeds the algae and the Rotifers eat the algae.
Make sure you get saltwater Rotifers! They live a lot longer in the larvae tank.
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Snapped some pics of the oil pan floating in the lagoon. Let me try to explain it.
A piece of PVC holding up a couple of bubblers. The green tubing is hooked up to an air pump set very very low. The air causes a small amount of water to go from the bottom of the container up to the top. The angle of the PVC elbows causes a slight circulation of the water in the container. The causes the larvae to constantly swim to maintain their position but it also brings a lot more food (Rotifers) by them. The result is a faster weight gain and more muscle from swimming. They also learn to swim better faster. The green tint is from adding Rotifers with green water.
Notice, no heaters in the container because the Lagoon provides heat. The container is a neutral grey to help the larvae see the rotifers. Black would probably be better.
You can see some fry in the close-up.

 
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