Any clown breeders out there willing to give a guy some advise?

[Rare Angels]

I haven't read all the post and hope I am not repeating things here but this is the stuff I have done and seems to work.

First of all I feed them alot. I only feed two times a day but spend about 20-30 minutes feeding each pair. I feed alot of frozen foods and get them all into bit sizes for the pairs. I then feed them one piece at a time until both the female and male are full. After that I go to the next apir and do the same. When all the pairs are done I got back through all the apirs again, they always eat even more after I come back around.

Another thing I do is simulate a change of seasons every 4-6 months on my system. My "winter" will have the tanks at 77-78 degrees and the light cycle is 10 hours on. After letting it like this for a couple weeks I bring the temp and light up to 82-84 degrees and 14 hours of lights. Some of my established pairs continue spawning right through this season, some stop and get a well deserved rest. For new pairs they always show spawning interest during the warm up and "summer".

I also don't do alot of maintenance on the tank, lost of times I can hardly see the fish from the algae on the tank. I use standard flurescent lights and have bare tanks with clay pots only.

Hope this helps some.

Dave

 

[ILLiDaN]

out of curiousity, would does chlorella do anything to entice these so called algae blooms?

 

[ahbroody]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15103689#post15103689 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Grunt
Well nigripes ship like dogcrap. At least you have two to work with

I feel so lazy. I have a healthy pair of gripes thats been spawning pretty consistently for years. I had some success raising the babies but then the wife and I started havign kids and I have not tried to raise any in years. They just spawned again yesterday. Maybe in a few more months I will start trying to raise them.

I will also add I lost the first male from a jump at night. Since then I reintroduced another male and they paired up and started spawning fairly quickly. As mentioned I mimic nature. The gripes are the only fish in my 60. They are comfortable and dont worry about much so I think that helps.

 

[WDLV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15132404#post15132404 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rare Angels
I haven't read all the post and hope I am not repeating things here but this is the stuff I have done and seems to work.

First of all I feed them alot. I only feed two times a day but spend about 20-30 minutes feeding each pair. I feed alot of frozen foods and get them all into bit sizes for the pairs. I then feed them one piece at a time until both the female and male are full. After that I go to the next apir and do the same. When all the pairs are done I got back through all the apirs again, they always eat even more after I come back around.

Another thing I do is simulate a change of seasons every 4-6 months on my system. My "winter" will have the tanks at 77-78 degrees and the light cycle is 10 hours on. After letting it like this for a couple weeks I bring the temp and light up to 82-84 degrees and 14 hours of lights. Some of my established pairs continue spawning right through this season, some stop and get a well deserved rest. For new pairs they always show spawning interest during the warm up and "summer".

I also don't do alot of maintenance on the tank, lost of times I can hardly see the fish from the algae on the tank. I use standard flurescent lights and have bare tanks with clay pots only.

Hope this helps some.

Dave

So you use saturation feeding and the 'leave it alone' husbandry approach... I feel pretty much the same on the husbandry. On any reefs i run I don't interfere too much with accidental fragmentation or other interferance. I let things grow where they fall. I let "nature" take it's course in my reef systems except for a periodic front glass cleaning where applicable.
However, saturation feeding is not something that I feel like I have time for. I have a one year old son, a fixer-upper house and a day job. Not to mention a wife who hates my hobby.

 

[WDLV]

On the leuc updade.... The first one I got is in the middle of week three in quarrantine and is doing quite well now.
I bought another Friday. That one should be here Tuesday. I will probably wait until both of the newbies are past their quarrantine period and add them both to the leuc tank at the same time. Hopefully I will get at least one pair out of the four individuals. If not I'll just buy a batch of sandaracinos and pair them up that way. Wish me luck.