Breeding (fake) percula

[yellow ace]

Hello,
I recently bought
1 coral beauty
5 green chromis
2 peppermint shrimp
1 percula (fake) clownfish
1 cloudy damsel
for my fish-only 46-gallon tank that already had 1 yello-tailed blue damsel and 2 firefish gobies. I bought them all from saltwaterfish.com and am VERY happy with my purchases! I especially love my clownfish. He is bright and flashy! I really want to learn how to breed my beauty. How many more should I buy so that they can pair-up naturally? I don't want to have more than 2 pairs b-c of tank space. I have a 10-gallon that I could breed one pair in. Is that big enough? What (if any) special eqiupment should I buy? I would rather take this VERY slowly and have a succesful breeding, than hurting my little beauty! Is an anemone neccesary? If not what host would be best? I would greatly appreciate any comments. Thank you!
-Ace

 

[thegrog]

How to do this cannot really be explained well in a board posting.
Get the book entitled "Clownfishes" by Joyce Wilkerson.
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11...b9d7f2e52d4a65
It is easy to read and one of the better how-to books on breeding clowns! Goes over it step-by-step

 

[yellow ace]

Thanks so much!

 

[hot883]

Originally Posted by Yellow Ace
Hello,
I recently bought
1 coral beauty
5 green chromis
2 peppermint shrimp
1 percula (fake) clownfish
1 cloudy damsel
for my fish-only 46-gallon tank that already had 1 yello-tailed blue damsel and 2 firefish gobies. I bought them all from saltwaterfish.com and am VERY happy with my purchases! I especially love my clownfish. He is bright and flashy! I really want to learn how to breed my beauty. How many more should I buy so that they can pair-up naturally? I don't want to have more than 2 pairs b-c of tank space. I have a 10-gallon that I could breed one pair in. Is that big enough? What (if any) special eqiupment should I buy? I would rather take this VERY slowly and have a succesful breeding, than hurting my little beauty! Is an anemone neccesary? If not what host would be best? I would greatly appreciate any comments. Thank you!
-Ace
Hopeully you did not add ALL those fish at the same time

If you did that new tank cannot handle all that bio load. How old is the tank?

 

[yellow ace]

I have had my tank set up for about 2 yrs now.

 

[hot883]

Ok so when you are talking about breeding "your beauty", is that the coral beauty or the clown? Ha! IMO the tank can't handle much more. Then again it's my $.02. 1 more clown ok, 1 more cb not ok!

 

[yellow ace]

yeah, I was talking about the clown...lol