My 4 week old Baby clown fish

[nselec]

here is my first attempt at raising Black and White Clown Fish
this is from the first batch of eggs only three hatched and are now about 4 weeks old.
I will post more pictures as they get older

 

[lifeoffaith]

Cute little guys!

 

[nselec]

thanks

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Adorable!

 

[CoralsAddiction]

here is my first attempt at raising Black and White Clown Fish
this is from the first batch of eggs only three hatched and are now about 4 weeks old.
I will post more pictures as they get older

Very nice. What's your feeding regiment of their parents (broodstock)?

 

[nselec]

the parents get feed a mix of frozen brine shrimp home made mixed shrimp muscles prawn blended and then frozen feed twice a day.
the parents are pure black and white no orange on them at all.

 

[D-Nak]

Was this the parents' first clutch, or is it the first you decided to raise? Typically clutches should yield at least 50 viable babies. When they get better, and you get better, you'll have hundreds of babies to tend to. :dance:

 

[ThRoewer]

Those look nice.

When the parents get bigger and more experienced the clutch size will go up. Ocellaris and percula it can lay up to 600 eggs per clutch. And they will do that every 2 weeks.
You can have thousands of little clownfish in no time.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

the parents get feed a mix of frozen brine shrimp home made mixed shrimp muscles prawn blended and then frozen feed twice a day.
the parents are pure black and white no orange on them at all.

Great, I purchased a mated pair of Onyx and Picasso yesterday. 98% of my fishes' diet consists of pellet foods but I think I will add more frozen food to keep it 65% pellets and 35% frozen food.

 

[ThRoewer]

..., I purchased a mated pair of Onyx and Picasso yesterday. ...

Another pair? How many do you have now?

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Another pair? How many do you have now?

Just two. I rehomed one of my pairs bc the new one was established for years.

 

[nselec]

this is the first set of eggs that these were from looking forward to breeding more of them.

 

[ThRoewer]

Just two. I rehomed one of my pairs bc the new one was established for years.

I could never give my clownfish pairs away - I just set up new tanks :headwally:

 

[Postal]

I could never give my clownfish pairs away - I just set up new tanks :headwally:

I got into the hobby with zero interest in clownfish. Everyone had Nemo and I had no interest.
And now I have eight pairs and have successfully raised Spotcinctus babies. It can get addicting very quickly.

 

[ThRoewer]

To me clownfish are the perfect aquarium fish:
- they stay reasonably small, even the larger species. (ocellaris & percula 10 cm, all others stay below 15 cm)
- they don't require large tanks (10-20 gallon for ocellaris and percula, 20 - 100 gallon for all the others)
- most species are hardy (after acclimatization)
- most species reproduce easily in captivity
- they are easily paired up
- they behave naturally in captivity

 

[Irishdolphin]

To me clownfish are the perfect aquarium fish:
- they stay reasonably small, even the larger species. (ocellaris & percula 10 cm, all others stay below 15 cm)
- they don't require large tanks (10-20 gallon for ocellaris and percula, 20 - 100 gallon for all the others)
- most species are hardy (after acclimatization)
- most species reproduce easily in captivity
- they are easily paired up
- they behave naturally in captivity

+1
And they are so interesting / entertaining to watch.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

I could never give my clownfish pairs away - I just set up new tanks :headwally:

Between my two dogs and two fish tanks it's already a zoo. Lol

 

[CoralsAddiction]

this is the first set of eggs that these were from looking forward to breeding more of them.

I just watched your video of them on YouTube. They are cute!

 

[nselec]

they are good to watch thanks
Here is link to video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqmWfWhwns

 

[Irishdolphin]

Have they ventured near the BTA or what do they use as a host?