brian, great observation and insight. thats what ive noticed also. growth has definetly slowed up. hopefully color/pattern dev. incr.
sara, they look great!. what ive noticed in my babies so far @ 2 months is evidence of the third bar. its a very slight white shading, which kinda surprised me. its kinda like, a break in the orange. what does this mean? from my observations with juv. clowns, its a good sign the white will dev. but, only time will tell i guess. so far ive noticed some odd headpatterns, so im crossing my fingers for the 2nd/3rd bars to be odd also. if i just get one picasso/jigsaw like clown, this enduring breeding process will be worth the ride.
as of 2/22/07, ive combined all 700 in a grow out tank. i have pics in my little red house. you can see a diff in color from the 2-3 week old babies to the 2-3 month old ones. food makes a diff>
but i still feel that genetics is the main underlying factor.
for someone asking about foods.
i use to feed the typical foods most hobbyist use. frozen mysis, cyclo, formula 1/2.
now i use:
primarily freeze dried plankton and formula 1/2. i also occassionaly mix in pure spirulina powder from hawaii.
i love using plankton. if a whale can eat it why cant my clowns
after introducing it to my stock, within 2 months this pair started to spawn. than about 1-2 months later, my second pair of onyx spawned also. you can see this pair(condaonyx) at my little red .
house or in toofishy.com(something fishy). is this coincidence? maybe. i CAUTION feeding with plankton though bec, there guts can fill up very fast, so be careful not to overfeed. it might be best to pre soak the plankton first before introduction, but im lazy so i rarely do.
my theory is that whales eat plankton to put on weight/high protein content, why cant i use this for my clowns, since my intention is the same.
any thanks sara for posting pics. i will never get tired looking at rodonyx.
