Amphiprion Percula Home Breeding

D-Nak said:
Oh wow. That is a really dark Onyx. Very cool. Was only the head orange?
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Yup pretty dark. This clown had a pretty interesting history. I purchased it from Ali at Amazing Aquariums and Reefs in Orange, CA. She used to be a male. When her mate died (jumped our of the tank) Ali sold me the male. You can see the clown in the second video below, fast forward to 5:00. You you will see her as a male in a gig with a female. Unfortunately she suffered the same fate as her former mate by jumping out of the tank. The first video of her in my tank in a green haddoni.

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Joyce Wilkerson suggests freezing culls to euthanize them. While its definitely better than flushing the clowns I found that the best way to euthanize deformed clowns is to use them as feeder fish. My female clown from pair 2 really enjoys eating them. i am trying to embed a video but Photobucket is not being nice
 
^^^the breeder box was a fail. I put about 8 clowns in it and one of them escaped through a hole. My fairy wrasse ate it immediately. I removed the remaining 7 clowns from the box and put them back in the grow out tank with the rest of the group.
 
CoralsAddiction said:
^^^the breeder box was a fail. I put about 8 clowns in it and one of them escaped through a hole. My fairy wrasse ate it immediately. I removed the remaining 7 clowns from the box and put them back in the grow out tank with the rest of the group.
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Oh no! Yikes....glad you discovered the error before you lost the rest.


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Having seen how quickly juvenile clowns can be eaten by non-predators it's mind boggling how even a very small percentage of them makes it in the ocean.
 
CoralsAddiction said:
Having seen how quickly juvenile clowns can be eaten by non-predators it's mind boggling how even a very small percentage of them makes it in the ocean.
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Yah, and it's crazy that we can feed culls to the adult clowns and they'll eat them with gusto. Mom and pop won't even protect their own kids!

Typically when animals have a large amount of babies, it accounts for the loss that occurs during the growth cycle. Nature has a way of balancing itself out.
 
I dumped some mini mysis shrimp to feed the clowns yesterday and today half of them seem to have doubled in size. One started to show a tail stripe. I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence but it's pretty crazy.
 
The clowns are now 6 weeks old. Here's a video of one that's starting to show the middle and tail stripes in addition to the full head stripe.
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CoralsAddiction said:
I'm a big fan of true percula clownfish and this thread is dedicated to my breeding attempt of Amphiprion Percula clowns. The photos below show the male and female. Both are wild caught. The video after shows my first attempt at raising their fry. The babies hatched just over an hour ago. Any breeding tips will be greatly appreciated.
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Female photo:
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Amazing percula clownfish, I love it too :inlove:
 
Today was rough. I had to cull 5 very undersized clowns. They were about half, if not smaller, the size of the rest of the group. My wrasse loved it though because he got to eat all of them. I am down to about 25. I expect that number to drop to about 20 survivors in the days/weeks to come.
 
Week 7 update. The grow out tank got very dirty from overfeeding. The clowns have been moved to a breeder net in DT.
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From today. 50 dph
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I woke up at 6:00 this morning to have some cereal and go to the gym. Instead I found the breeder's box floating in the tank with no clowns in it. After a very quick visual inspection I saw some survivors in the back chamber of my IM Nuvo 40. I removed the skimmer and other equipment. The rescue operation had began. The easiest way to get them would have been with a turkey baster. However, the clowns can't fit in it anymore. So I improvised using a net and a bottleneck cut from a regular plastic water bottle. The good news is I was able to rescue almost all of them. I am down to about 16 now. The bad news I couldn't find the clown that I was really looking forward to seeing develop. He had a white dot behind its right gill.It's been an eventful morning to say the least but I am happy there are survivors. Otherwise the entire breeding project would have been a waste, aside from the learning experience.
Tool of the day

I have three nano scolys. One of them is looking happy with sweeper tentacles out. Perhaps it ate my favorite clown.
 
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