How are Percula misbars typically breed

[thelawnwrangler]

aka does the breeder come across misbar parents, and they have misbar offspring or is it some type of hybrid?

 

[ThRoewer]

My goal was always to minimize misbars as I see it rather as a defect than something I want to achieve.

With ocellaris I always suspected it to be a nutrient deficiency during early development. But genetics may definitely play a role too.
Percula seem to be even more prone to misbars, though I always managed to keep it to a minimum.

 

[thelawnwrangler]

My goal was always to minimize misbars as I see it rather as a defect than something I want to achieve.

With ocellaris I always suspected it to be a nutrient deficiency during early development. But genetics may definitely play a role too.
Percula seem to be even more prone to misbars, though I always managed to keep it to a minimum.

So it basically happens without trying? I guess the bigger breeders just collect and sell them separately?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It happens due to neglect!

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Or when mother nature decides it wants it that way
Here's the only wild caught Ocellaris misbar I have ever seen.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

That's cool! No, missbars in the wild usually don't happen.

 

[ThRoewer]

That's cool! No, missbars in the wild usually don't happen.

They happen quite frequently, at least with percula. But the survival chances of larva are so low that very few actually make it. A simple matter of statistics.

 

[thelawnwrangler]

Missing stripes has made him mean

Nips my ocellaris a little. Surprised this soon thought it would happen when they were bigger and determining who the boss was.

 

[thelawnwrangler]

TheRoewer do you still breed clowns?

I got the Joyce Wilkerson book 15 years ago was always intrigued.

 

[thelawnwrangler]

My Ocy is a goofball. He is swimming into the power head current and seeing how fast he can swim across the aquarium. Then swims back to do it again lol

 

[ThRoewer]

TheRoewer do you still breed clowns?

I got the Joyce Wilkerson book 15 years ago was always intrigued.

I stopped 2003, but plan to pick it up again. On a much smaller scale though.
I've just got back into saltwater a year ago and it takes a while to get percula to grow up and start spawning. These dumb shits don't eat enough.

 

[thelawnwrangler]

I stopped 2003, but plan to pick it up again. On a much smaller scale though.
I've just got back into saltwater a year ago and it takes a while to get percula to grow up and start spawning. These dumb shits don't eat enough.

The ones in you avatar? Very nice looking fish

 

[ThRoewer]

The ones in you avatar? Very nice looking fish

Those were wild Solomon percula, some of the first ever to make it to Germany. Their offspring looked pretty nice too, some precisely like their parents.

 

[OrionN]

My goal was always to minimize misbars as I see it rather as a defect than something I want to achieve.

With ocellaris I always suspected it to be a nutrient deficiency during early development. But genetics may definitely play a role too.
Percula seem to be even more prone to misbars, though I always managed to keep it to a minimum.

I love the pair in your avatar. Do you still have them? If you do please breed them. I would love several offspring from them