Has Anyone Ever Had Fry Grow On Their Own In The Display Tank?

[jiggy]

has anyone ever had clowns lay in their display tank and have had the fry rear themselves from whatever is in the tank?

 

[Nagel]

I know someone who *says* he had one ocellaris grow out in his main tank, but I still have my doubts..

I do know a tank though (in an office much less!) that had green wolf eels spawning, and they recently broke down the tank. Well, wouldn't you know it it, there were a dozen babies that had grown quite a bit (they were 3-4" long), without any special care.. THAT amazed me (but then again, baby GWE's can take BBS as a first food, and baby clowns need smaller food)..

 

[David M]

I used to get the occasional juvie bangaii from a friend when he found them in his sump/ fuge. I'm not talking babies here, I mean half grown adults. At most there would be 2 or 3 a couple times a year.

 

[stykthyn]

I beleive that cardinals could, but not clowns if it were really that easy, wouldnt more people be doing it??

 

[r00onmac]

is the problem with baby clowns that the parents or other tank inhabitants will eat them or that the food is just too big? im sure the concentration of food in the ocean isnt the 15-20per/ml that it is in the breeding tanks, so wouldnt it be possible that out of a hatch of 600 one or two could find enough food to make it post meta and feed on the CE that so many of us feed our tanks?

i say its highly unlikely but not completely impossible... especially in a big enough tank where a populatoin of rots, pods, etc can be very high because of available real estate that only they can get to..

 

[rsman]

there are a number of things that stacks the odds against the larval clown.

first larva clowns are attracted to light, which in a reef tank puts them promptly on the dinner menu

it also puts them up in the water column where they can get sucked into overflows, pumps, and anything else that can smash/cut/eaten

then you need food, the ocean does have a lot of food, there are many strands of algae that fit the bill, then the zillions of other critters like copepods, ciliates, clam & oister ?larva? and eggs and ....


there is a reason that the ocean isnt orange with white stripes, not many make it in the wild either.

 

[Kathy55g]

The guy who found them in the sump probably had a gazillion copepods who just happened to hatch on the day the clownfish larvae hatched and got sucked down the overflow.