Hi all!
Started my reef tank in July. Going really well besides the occasional algae fight (all parameters -don't test Mg- test within ideal ranges). Question about my Ocellaris pair. I decided against an anemone in my little 46g, but have a nice frogspawn (I think) that they mostly live in. Just barely big enough for both to hide, but mostly they just spend their days nuzzling in it a bit, then swimming around and through it during their travels. But to my question:
Would a clownfish ever lay eggs under a soft coral? About 4 inches from their frogspawn is a big mushroom-like coral (guy who gave it to me called it something else, but looks like a big folded blue gray mushroom to me). And the bigger Ocellaris seems to spend a lot of time sideways, nuzzling under the flesh of the coral. Might it have laid eggs under there? Where it is means I can't see that angle. Not a ton of room underneath makes me think a full clutch of eggs unlikely, and the Oci doesn't spend as much time as I'd think it would were there eggs there. If not eggs, any idea what it might be doing? Besides the frogspawn, it's the only coral it goes near for any purpose.
Started my reef tank in July. Going really well besides the occasional algae fight (all parameters -don't test Mg- test within ideal ranges). Question about my Ocellaris pair. I decided against an anemone in my little 46g, but have a nice frogspawn (I think) that they mostly live in. Just barely big enough for both to hide, but mostly they just spend their days nuzzling in it a bit, then swimming around and through it during their travels. But to my question:
Would a clownfish ever lay eggs under a soft coral? About 4 inches from their frogspawn is a big mushroom-like coral (guy who gave it to me called it something else, but looks like a big folded blue gray mushroom to me). And the bigger Ocellaris seems to spend a lot of time sideways, nuzzling under the flesh of the coral. Might it have laid eggs under there? Where it is means I can't see that angle. Not a ton of room underneath makes me think a full clutch of eggs unlikely, and the Oci doesn't spend as much time as I'd think it would were there eggs there. If not eggs, any idea what it might be doing? Besides the frogspawn, it's the only coral it goes near for any purpose.
. I have no idea, hence the questions. Thought that’s what you meant, but thought maybe there was some inside info that pairs won’t breed until together a year or something. Cheers!
