Breeding Gold Stripe Maroon Clownfish

I use a 5-5.5 gal. tank for my maroon/goldstripe babies. I fill the tank about a 1/3 of the way with rotifers that has been rinsed with fresh saltwater and Live phyto feast. The rest of the tank is filled with tank water. I keep a heater in there around 80 degrees (which is the temp of the parents tank). This is my first time. I have 9 babies that are 25 days old. They are black with a blue stripe right now. Some are developing the maroon color.

Goodluck with yours Nanz. I am trying to learn as much as I can from others.
 
I use a 5 gallon hex tank with a blue moonlight over the top. I removed the filtration and have a heater set at 80 degrees and an airstone that bubbles the water. I cover the tank with a towel to keep it dark for the first 4 days.

Feeding rotifers:
  • I take a sieve and collect about 250ml of water through the sieve.
  • Rinse rotifers with saltwater at 1.020
  • Pour some rotifers and the 1.020 water into a shot glass.
  • Add 10 drops of Rotifer Feast
  • Let it sit for 30 mins then transfer to larva tank.

Day 1:
Water: Fill tank with 2/3 water from parent tank, 1.025
Feed: Rotfers morning and night

Day 2:
Water: Add 1L of DI water slowly by dripping to lower to 1.023
Feed: Rotfers morning and night

Day 3:
Water: Add 1L of DI water slowly by dripping to lower to 1.020
Feed: Rotfers morning and night

Day 4:
Feed: Rotfers morning and night

Day 5:
Water: Replace 1/3 of the water with fresh 1.020 water.
Feed: Rotfers morning, Brine Shrimp at night. They are prepared the same way as the rotifers. Collect, rinse and put in shotglass with rotifer feast for 30 mins so they can get enriched.

Day 6:
Feed: Rotfers morning, Brine Shrimp at night.

Day 7:
Water: Replace 1/3 of the water with fresh 1.020 water.
Feed: Rotfers morning, Brine Shrimp at night, 1/16 tsp Otohime A

Day 8:
Feed: Brine Shrimp and 1/16 tsp Otohime A

After this I transfer them to the jevenile tank. 10 gallon tank half full which gets fed Brine srhimp and Otohime A with water changes every 3 days. The jevenile tank has a sponge filter in it instead of an airstone and a piece of live rock. Temp is still the same.

After they have completed meta which is about 3 weeks and they are completely maroon then I transfer them to the grow out tank. This is a 12 gallon nanocube with complete filtration, live rock, carbon, bio balls, and a sponge filter for added O2. This tank is fed only Otohime B1, C1 and C2. The salinity is also brought back up to 1.025 and the temp is the same.

Thats the process I have been using so far. Ill get some pics of the process for you. Please feel free to critic any of my process we are all here to learn.
 
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15290628#post15290628 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CCall
I use a 5-5.5 gal. tank for my maroon/goldstripe babies. I fill the tank about a 1/3 of the way with rotifers that has been rinsed with fresh saltwater and Live phyto feast. The rest of the tank is filled with tank water. I keep a heater in there around 80 degrees (which is the temp of the parents tank). This is my first time. I have 9 babies that are 25 days old. They are black with a blue stripe right now. Some are developing the maroon color.

Goodluck with yours Nanz. I am trying to learn as much as I can from others.
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Sounds like your doing great. Keep us posted and good luck with your clownfish :)
 
What is the purpose of changing the salinity so often? I am new at this but my parent tank stays around 1.024, I run my rotifers at about 1.020, so a swing of .004 will not put them in shock.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15315956#post15315956 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jetfixr
What is the purpose of changing the salinity so often? I am new at this but my parent tank stays around 1.024, I run my rotifers at about 1.020, so a swing of .004 will not put them in shock.
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I can think of three good reasons.

1) The salinity is close to the rotifers so they won't go into shock when they are added to the tank water.

2) Less parasites can live in 1.020 than 1.024

3) Use less salt since your going to be making alot of water changes.

I know most people keep it at 1.020 the entire time. I move them back to 1.025 because it makes it easier for me to do water changes in the growout tank. I use water from the parent tank to do water changes to the growout tank and its salinity is 1.025. That is why I change the salinity back up after meta.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15317546#post15317546 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CCall
How many babies do you have?
At what age have you gotten to?

Have you sold any yet and how much?
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I have 3 tanks

Larva Tank: 50-75 (1 week)
Jevenile Tank: 14 (2 weeks)
Growout Tank : 8 (12 weeks old)

The ones in the Jeveniletank have been a good batch. I only started with 15 in that batch and only one has died. The reason for the small batch is because the majority of the eggs decided to hatch 1 day early and I ended up with what was left the next day to collect.

This has been nothing but a learning experience for me. I think what is most important is the food that you feed the rotifers. Because it seems whenever I get a new bottle of rotifer diet then the batches seem to be stronger and I have less fatalities.

One of my first batches was very successful until I decided to move them and accidently had the temp and salinity off a bit. Its very difficult to move them in my opinion. You have to be very gentle and aclimate them very slowly.

Here are pictures of that very successful batch.

Day 1
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Day 4
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Day 7
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Day 9
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I seem to do very good until after meta or during meta then I start seeing fatalities each day until they are all dead or I make a stupid mistake. I am thinking of using copepods to feed one of my future batches. I have been researching copepods and it seems there are some small ones called Tisbe biminiensis. They are not like tigger pods which can actually kill your fry but instead smaller and without the barbed tail. I will need to start a copepod culture and then get my numbers up before I can start feeding them to clownfish.

Once they start eating otohime then they seem to be very healthy but getting them to that stage without losing so many has been my delima. My first idea was that my clowns were dying due to NH3 and that is why I thought of using a Kreisel with complete cycled filtration to lower the NH3 but now Im suspecting that the secret is in what you feed them.
 
Last nights hatch did not go well. The larva hatched early and I still had the powerheads and return pump on :( I did manage to collect about 20 of them. I will just have to wait to see if she lays more eggs.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15330180#post15330180 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TylerRt
How offen is she laying eggs?
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She lays eggs every 9-10 days. Mostly 3 days after they hatch so I should have another clutch of eggs Saturday.
 
Keep your chin up, I bet all your efforts will pay off!

It is so great to watch your progress (I have spawning GSM's)

thanks for all the updates and info, LOTS OF LUCK!
 
He laid another clutch of eggs this weekend on Friday :)

My previous batch is doing great so far with very few deaths. What is strange is I have been very busy and not had time to do many water changes. Im almost afraid to touch it because they are so healthy. Some have alreay started meta and they are all swimming at the top rather than sitting on the bottom which is what happens most of the time before they start dying.
 
got my first batch of eggs this weekend--saw them when i came to the office this afternoon. wow. gotta get that capture tool built, everything else is ready--posts like these help us build confidence; keep them coming!!!
 
I have about 100 of them from various ages in a 55 gallon tank. I stopped collecting my eggs for the past 2 months. I have become very busy lately with my family and just dont have the time to raise them. I will continue to raise the 100 in the 55 but for now Im not collecting any more eggs. I will try to post a pic of my 55. They are all doing great and trying to kill themselves, hehe.
 
Ok, here are some pictures. :)

Me and my baby clown fish.
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Closeup of the clownfish. Its a 55 with a heater, canister filter and a airpump for water movement. I do weekly waterchanges of 5 gallons and my NH3 is 0.008 ppm and NO3 is 7.75ppm. Not bad for no skimmer, hehe. I have some macro in there also but the pods are all consumed. I also added a little bit of live rock so the little ones have some shelter. They are constantly trying to kill each other.
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Here is a pic of Mom and Dad just relaxing on their anemomes.
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