Eggs!

[TrojanScott]

It's been about 6 months since I paired my female maroon with a small male. It was easy, or lucky, and they were a pair quickly. I discovered eggs last night! SOOO COOL! Right next to their anemone, and she's really on guard with 'em.

They're all toast though, yes? In a full reef tank with a blue jaw trigger and melenarus wrasse? Even if not, just the normal high flow and going through my system, I'm assuming I have no shot at seeing a baby clown fish?

 

[Reefing Newbie]

Unless you catch the babies the night they hatch, then the chance is probably non existent. The night they hatch, you can make sure all lights are off, and shine a flash light where you want them to go, then you can siphon them into a bucket to be raised in a fry tank. Just do a little research on breeding maroons. I am not sure if you want fry or not but, that is up to you. I would love to raise my True Perc's fry(have a pair, about a year before they start spawning) but there is a lot of work required in raising them(feeding rotifers almost constantly, exceptional water quality, then there is the whole morphing which not very many of the babies make). But as I said you don't have much if any of a shot at seeing baby clowns with out removal for rearing in a full reef tank.

 

[Tmoriarty]

Yep, you can pretty much count that clutch as goners, nice food for your fishies tho . But..... now you know they are spawning, that means they should keep spawning consistently so if you do want to raise baby clowns, research up on it and be ready for next time.