My tries at raising maroon clownfish

[mako56]

Heres a pic of ma.

 

[TamiW]

Beautiful big girl, I'm waiting for my lady to grow up so I can get her a mate.

 

[Tinemoon]

Hi everybody in this wonderful forum.

I would like to take this opportunity and introduce myself, since I have been reading here for a long time and have found soooo much important information. Especially in the "breeders forum.

My name is Martina, I am from Germany and I am trying to breed Amphiprion Ocellaris now for about three months.

My first batch has been the most successful so far. Appr. 45 have survived and are still with me - I just cannot bear the thought of selling them at this point

I still have lots of questions - since your way of feeding is a little different - except for the rots and the phytoplankton.


I will try to attach a pic of my first batch at appr. day 29

I am looking forward to posting here and hope I will still be able to learn a lot from all of you - Thanx

 

[oyvind]

Grüss Dich Martina!!
Nice that others from Europe also take part in breeding salt water fish!

 

[mako56]

Very nice to meet you. I haven't been doing this for very long but it is working pretty good. Anyways

I will try to help with anything I can there were allot of very good people posting here with allot of info.

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Wenn wir so weiter machen haben wir bald deutsche Threads hier *grins*

I am glad that we are internattional, make great fun the share expierence worldwide!

 

[Tuddy]

micron size Otohime

I think he was meaning is it 50-100 micron or is 100-200 micron

I have been feeding my baby bangai's Golden Pearl in the 100-200 micron.

This looks very simular to the Otohime.

Have a look and let me know what you guys think. I only managed to get 3 Bangaii babies from my reef tank but it is day 18 with no losses. only enriched artemia shrimp for the first 8 days now I feed them on day 1 to day 3 artemia shrimp along with golden pearl 100-200 2-3 times daily.

Golden Pearl
Available in Seven particle Sizes
(Note: The larger the micron number, the larger the particle size. A newly hatched brine shrimp is about 400 microns.)

Active Spheres Golden Pearls: 5-50 microns
Rotifer Size I Golden Pearls: 50-100 microns
Rotifer Size II Golden Pearls: 100-200 microns
(Rotifer/Artemia replacement)
Artemia Size I Golden Pearls: 200-300 microns
(Artemia replacement)
Artemia Size II Golden Pearls: 300-500 microns
Weaning Diet Golden Pearls: 500-800 microns
Juvenile Diet Golden Pearls: 800-1000 microns

Proximate Analysis
Protein: 60%
Lipids: 18%
Ash: 15%
Moisture: 8%
Vitamin C: 1000 ppm
Vitamin E: 400 ppm
Astaxanthin: 500 ppm

Cheers Andrew

 

[mako56]

Well I am having a few deaths lately I need to be better at giving them new water, but most seem pretty happy. Some are close to the 1 inch mark. I copied Kathy's version of the fry snatcher and all have to say is WOW THIS THING IS GREAT. Got the biggest catch I ever had with hardly any time involved. Thanks to everyone that had a hand in this contraption.

 

[Snarkys]

great thread

im also interested if anyone has tried the goldenpearls

 

[mako56]

Well sold the first two babies today. And it feels kind wierd but I caught another batch last night and with Kathy or whoever invented the cather you wind up with hungreds of babies instead of maybe 100 or less so its off we go. I am sure it gets easier RIGHT?

 

[nutshells]

wow.. This is very informative article. THanks

 

[spookybfc]

Hey Mako good job and congrats on the batch.
I would like to have a setup to hatch clown fish. I currently have one pair of Maroon gold stripe in my main tank and going to get another pair for a 30 gallon tank. If they start to lay eggs i want to try and raise them myself.
I was wondering if you could take a few pictures of your setup like the tank and filtration system so i know what to work on.
I have my Phyto growing and Ratifiers as well so feeding wont be a problem.
If anyone else out there has pictures of their setup i would like to see those too. PM me if you like.

Thanks
Leo.

 

[mako56]

Boy I thought this thread died. Thanks for the comments most of what I did was because all the nice people here took me by the hand and led me through the process. I still have some of the babies from the first hatch the pet stores around here will only give me 4 bucks apiece for them. I guess I will just let them have them for what ever I can get. It was a very cool experience and now I can say that I have done it there just isn't any market for them in my area it just isn't worth all the time and money that I have stuck into it. I am dreaming of maybe starting my own coral farm and then raising the babies might be better who knows maybe next year I will get that going. The other day I found some baby cardinals in my overflows I think I would have better luck selling them. If you read though this I was told that maroons were not a good choice but that's what I had and like I said I am glad that I did it so many people thought it was so cool to be able to pull it off I even had a lady at the pet store (a customer) shake my hand that felt really nice. I will get some pics for you spookybfc of what I did it was really pretty simple and if it was set up better it would not be so much work and then maybe it would be worth it I guess. I just don't have the spare time anymore.

 

[scottcc]

I have pair of maroons two years now and now eggs?... What am I doing wrong?

 

[mako56]

I know a guy that has like six pairs for at least that long and no eggs yet. I really am not sure I would guess that they must feel really comfortable. Nice home and a good diet I was just lucky I guess I wasn't even trying (maybe that’s the secret :lol and like I said now I have baby cardinals in my overflows go figure. If I was trying I would just feed them a mix of some good frozen foods.