Baby Black Ocellaris!

[jacob30]

Here are a few pics of my black ocellaris clowns:

Here is one of the proud parents with one of their offspring in my main reef:

Here is a pic of the school of juvenile black ocellaris:

Enjoy the pics!

 

[rbdesigns]

Is your pair tank bred?

 

[redvipe2010]

Those are so cute! Now you just made me want a pair! Congrats!

 

[jacob30]

rbdesigns

Yes they are tank bred.

 

[traveller7]

Congrats Jacob30.

To all:

Please keep selling, trading, and other solicitations out of the discussion areas. It would be unfortunate to remove useful threads.

Thanks,

 

[raoul]

These are great pics!!!
We have 2 ocellaris in our 30 gal and I love them! They host a sebae.
We're in the process of setting up a 75 and I've been picking out fish for it already.
I plan on getting a pair of black ocells and would love to see them host in a rose bta - I think that color combination would be strinking!
Great job, they look great!
Alta

 

[jacob30]

The parents actually host a sebae and come over each morning to their offsprings hammer and wait for the autofeeder to kick on. The father tends to be very interested in the little guy and seeks him out in the hammer sometimes.

These clowns readily host almost anything but prefer anemones.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Great job, Jacob. Did you maintain phyto and rotifer cultures to feed the larval fish?

 

[finding nemo]

Jacob, they are beautiful, I have a question, did you raise them in your main tank? Looks like they are in there now?
Did you keep a log of how you raised them?
What did you feed them. More info please.
They are just so cute. Congrats

 

[jacob30]

These guys were raised in a larvae growout tank and then moved to a growout system ( 6 ten gallon tanks with a 20 gallon sump). There is only one juvenile I placed in the main tank along with the parents. They were started on rotifers then BBS and then pulverized flake. I have a thread in the breeding forum with more details.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=683306&highlight=black+ocellaris

 

[jacob30]

Gary Majchrzak

Yes maintaining rotifers is essential for their first couple of weeks.
I use an algae paste "rotifer diet" by Reef Nutrition to raise the rotifers.

 

[jacob30]

Here is a pic of what they start out as: