Baby ocellaris pics

[Horizon Canopy]

Here are some pics of my 1 month old ocellaris babies... right now, they are about 0.5 inches long and growing fast! Sorry for the bad pics as I am a horrible photographer, but I hope you enjoy the pics anyways. Thanks to Tyler at Dolphin for some very helpful advice.

 

[Vincerama2]

Extremely cute and awesome! I wish mine would spawn, but haven't yet. They might never spawn

Good luck raising them, it sounds like you have a fun project on your hands!

V

 

[sid700]

Sweet. Congratulations. Are breeding that Regal angel too?

 

[Lordhelmet]

way cool. I would love to breed my clowns!

 

[Qwiv]

Good job, your past the hard part. Well, there is still the waiting for them to grow up and move out of the house yet to go.

 

[Horizon Canopy]

thanks for the kind words!

I have two more hatches besides this one going on at the same time, (19 day olds and 7 day olds), and another hatching 9/25, so its been keeping me really busy!

sid700,
i wish i could breed my regal angel! I've tried getting a mate for him/her, but didn't want to risk them fighting and me having to fish them out of my 240...

 

[mcurl98]

very, very cool!

 

[sulcata1619]

awesome, they are so cute.

 

[UCanDoIt]

really cool photos. are you planning to sell them privately or through a LFS?

 

[dantodd]

Congrats I am just starting to try and raise my clarkii. Not an easy task. Maybe we can swap juvies at some point.

 

[Horizon Canopy]

UCanDoIt,
Haven't decided yet, but I'll probably try and sell them to the LFS since I wouldn't know what to do with hundreds of juvis...

dantodd,
that would be cool, i don't have any clarkiis. how are your clarkii's coming? I've read some of your posts on rareclownfish, are you still having problems?

 

[dantodd]

Yeah, but I'll get it figured out. Thankfully she's laying again. I have some fry approaching 30 days. I've got my fingers crossed!

 

[UCanDoIt]

does your clownfishes know how to host an anemone already? i bought some black tank bred ocellaris about 6 months ago and they still don't know what anemone is.

 

[Horizon Canopy]

I don't know, I don't have an anemone in juvenile growout... I can tell you that the parents took to my rbta instantly. Right now, they are hosting in a large frogspawn.

 

[Tkieu78]

if you plan on selling, i'd like a pair of them if possible, let me know.

 

[Horizon Canopy]

update

update

45 day old juvis, largest are about 3/4'' right now. i've noticed in ocellaris juvis that they get all their bars around 30 days, while percula juveniles take up to a year to develop the tail bar.

30 day old juvis: smaller batch, had an air pump malfunction at day 7, killed about 80% of the hatch, but only 1 mortality since then.

clownfish rearing area: 3 juvenile growout, 2 larval tanks, 4 rotifer cultures in the IO buckets, and a brine shrimp hatchery... (I have a very understanding fiance...)

and lastly, the proud parents with their frogspawn!

 

[Qwiv]

So how are you getting the eggs/hatch out of your display??

 

[Horizon Canopy]

I just scoop them out with tupperware on hatch night. If I'm real careful, I get about 5% transfer losses. I'm probably losing about 25% of the hatch because the display is an 8ft tank, and the larvae scatter as soon as they hatch. I also have a few pesky cleaner shrimp that go around eating the larvae as I'm scooping them out.

 

[UCanDoIt]

Is this the first time you're raising these? What have you been feeding them and at what age did you switch to the next type of food? This is really cool, thanks for the photos.

 

[mobert]

Looks terrific. If you are ever by Aquatic Gallery check out the pottery that he has in the tank for the Maroons to spawn on. It can make pulling the larvae out a 5 minute task.