Hi. I have heard from many people and lfs that tank-raised clowns are sterile and cant lay eggs at all. The lfs told me that if i wanted to attempt breeding that i needed to have a wild caught pair to have any success. Can you please clear this up for me? Also is it possible to have a tank-raised clown and a wild one to pair up and have fertile offspring? If you can please post pics of tank-raised clowns with their eggs.Thank-you!
tank-raised VS. wild
- Thread starter evilfrog
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Total garbage from "many people" and the LFS, and a perpetual myth in the hobby.
You can watch a 3.6 MB video of my tank-raised clowns mating if it floats your boat.
HTH,
Pete
You can watch a 3.6 MB video of my tank-raised clowns mating if it floats your boat.
HTH,
Pete
Well, below is a pair that I have had for ten years and shown are the eggs they laid last week. They have breed countless times. Their eggs always hatch and their fry are strong and healthy. The female was tank raised and the male was wild caught. I would always buy tank raised if given the choice. In this hobby there are a lot of myths and over-generalizations.
What has occassionally happened, or so I have been told (see, another possible myth) is that a lfs gets a bunch of young clowns from the same brood and sometimes two individuals from this collection don't breed successfully because of the close genetic relationship between them. Of course, this too could be BS.
What has occassionally happened, or so I have been told (see, another possible myth) is that a lfs gets a bunch of young clowns from the same brood and sometimes two individuals from this collection don't breed successfully because of the close genetic relationship between them. Of course, this too could be BS.
Jovreefer
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Just re itterating what everyone else said. I gave a friend a pair of tank raised true percs ... 4 months later they were laying eggs in his tank.
If you are however serously intersted in breeding and raising fry get jocye wilkerson's book on breeding clowns, read up...decide if you think you can do it first.
Personally I'm against breeding brother and sister ... I would not get 2 clowns from the same collection date because more than likley if they are young they are bother and sister.
If your gonna go for CB thats a whole other post going on what atticus said.
CB black and white's breeding are a rare occurance & very inbred
CB true and false percs breed more frequently but you'd probably have to order online to be sure to get it from 2 different blood lines unless you dont care about inbreeding and shortening the gene pool.
If you are however serously intersted in breeding and raising fry get jocye wilkerson's book on breeding clowns, read up...decide if you think you can do it first.
Personally I'm against breeding brother and sister ... I would not get 2 clowns from the same collection date because more than likley if they are young they are bother and sister.
If your gonna go for CB thats a whole other post going on what atticus said.
CB black and white's breeding are a rare occurance & very inbred
CB true and false percs breed more frequently but you'd probably have to order online to be sure to get it from 2 different blood lines unless you dont care about inbreeding and shortening the gene pool.
Atticus
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Alright now I am forced to BS your BS of my BS...
Like Chris said you can talk to any breeder in Australia about WC blacks and they will tell you how hard they are to come by. They are in a more protected area and few collections are done in that area. They are just plain hard to get ahold of, let alone the cost prohibitive factors and competition from the Japan market. So, we are stuck breeding our clowns bloodlines back into each other like the Royal family.
vaporize
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8420986#post8420986 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Atticus
Alright now I am forced to BS your BS of my BS...
Like Chris said you can talk to any breeder in Australia about WC blacks and they will tell you how hard they are to come by. They are in a more protected area and few collections are done in that area. They are just plain hard to get ahold of, let alone the cost prohibitive factors and competition from the Japan market. So, we are stuck breeding our clowns bloodlines back into each other like the Royal family.
hhaha let's skip the BS. So how much are the Japanese willing to pay over there?
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