Is This a Good Breeding Tank?

[Jake15]

I put together this 29 gallon for my clowns to hopefully spawn in. LMK what you think. Also how warm should i keep the water? and should i add anything else?

 

[David M]

Well that is the "warm and fuzzy" display tank approach, many here will approve. I otoh would remove absolutely everything except the sand bed and give them a 4 or 6" clay flowerpot Then I'd turn the tank 90 degrees and paint 3 sides black or blue, leaving only one short side for viewing and I'd let the algae build up so you can barely see thru it. I'd use a razor blade to keep a little 2" square viewing window so I had a good clear shot of the flowerpot.

Probably not exactly what you had in mind for your living room, eh :lol:

 

[Jake15]

Its in my room and ill do what it takes lol. No joke i've been impatiently waiting for months for them to spawn. If they are more likely to spawn like that. Then ill go that route.

Thanks for your reply

any other opinions on what i can do?

 

[ediaz]

I keep my tanks spotless, scrubbed every day, when the tank is taken over by algae, pods, and othe plague organisms, the quality of the eggs decreases.

You can add the flower pot or tile to the tank.Keep the temp 80-83 and feed 6 times a day a different food each time.

Ed

 

[David M]

That is interesting Edgar, most opinions I've heard advocate staying out of the tank completely so as not to disturb the pair. Scrubbing the tanks daily would seem like quite an interruption but I suppose if it becomes routine they get used to it? Heck I never clean the broodstock tanks, maybe that's why I lose so many nests?

 

[David M]

No joke i've been impatiently waiting for months for them to spawn.

Your'e likely to need a LOT more patience A few months is nothing You need more tanks to keep yourself occupied and then one day when you least expect it.... :smokin:

 

[ediaz]

I used not to clean them much, but my nests were gone some of them, half of the clutch or more, with clowns, dottys

Then I remembered something Brons told me once that he kept his tanks meticulosy or someting like that, clean, and at C-quest the brood stock person when not feeding will spend the day scrubbing and in the process since water was "free" doing water changes daily.

Some of my fish spawn when I am cleaning the tanks, those bite harder...

I dried my system , cleaned it, added new water, and now I scrub, feed one last time and siphon every day, my nests all go full term all eggs. and they look nice!

Ed

 

[mwp]

Interesting observations Ed.

Matt

 

[Kathy55g]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8511770#post8511770 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ediaz
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Some of my fish spawn when I am cleaning the tanks, those bite harder...

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Ed

LOL:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Kathy55g]

Someone did tell me that fish that were developed and started spawning in a reef tank had larger nests and were better breeders. My one pair started in a reef tank, and are still in a smaller reef tank, and still do pretty good.

 

[Jake15]

ya, i already thought of somethings to keep mine mind off it. Setting up a new tank with three dividers and three pairs :lol: . So that should help me in the mean time. But once i get all the pairs if noone is laying then im gonna go a bit crazy. lol. Im gonna get two juvi perc onyx and let them pair up. a pair of false percs and a pair of black false percs.

 

[ediaz]

hands down a reef tank is way better than any other set up to get fish spawning, but a good one, with all the elements , equipment and husbandry it requires. If not, go bare and scrub , scrub, scrub...

A bare tank with rock and a filter, overtaken by algae and detritus, does not apply.

Ed