When Ocellaris lay eggs in your display what does it look like?

[bsmom]

Okay I want to do a major cleaning here and I see this. Are they making babies? Can I save them? Do they eat their own eggs?

 

[bsmom]

rotate pic right 90 degrees

 

[hbrochs]

Eggs

Eggs

I can't tell from your pic but it looks like an orange splotch the size of a half dollar, then after a couple of days they turn black. The male will tend the clutch. Constantly cheching over them. The male will not usually even leave during feeding time. The day before they hatch, you will see a silver spot which is their eyes. Good luck.

Howard

 

[bsmom]

They are gone now. But I highly suspect this was the case. As the little one hung out by the nest. They won't live in this display. Unless raising Ocellaris is lucrative I don't think it will go any further.
Thanks for the reply though!

 

[ThRoewer]

Ocellaris are the most lucrative in terms of demand.
If they don't have an anemone give them a clay flowerpot - for some reason they love them and they will also lay their eggs in there. That way you will be able to take the whole nest out (just swap pots) before they hatch.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Ocellaris are the most lucrative in terms of demand.

+1, very popular among fish stores and wholesalers. They also color up much quicker than true percs and you can move them fairly early without having to wait for 6+ months.

 

[Wilrok_1]

Ocellaris are the way to go , but will be hard to get the fry out of your display .

 

[Postal]

And even though ocellaris have the highest demand among LFS and wholesalers, you still need to breed them in very large quantities if you expect to profitable at all.

 

[OrionN]

And even though ocellaris have the highest demand among LFS and wholesalers, you still need to breed them in very large quantities if you expect to profitable at all.

Nah, you just sit on your clowns. It took me 2 years to move all of my babies. After 4 hatches or so I got about 1000. Caring for them cost a lot of money. Just the water change alone cost a lot of time and money. You will not be able to sell the normal Ocellaris for more than 2-4 dollars each.

 

[Wilrok_1]

I was moving them on Craigslist for $15 a pair and traded for corals and other necessities , but you won't get rich breeding clowns . But i did it for fun .

 

[ThRoewer]

It really depends on the quality and where you try to sell them.
A LFS is generally the worst place to "sell" them as they usually will try to give you store credit and base that on what they usually pay for those at a wholesaler. Store credit would only be fair if the basis was the stores sales price, otherwise it's a ripoff.

If you breed fish at a consistent rate and have good quality, I would try to sell them to a local wholesaler. You may not make the most money, but you usually can unload a lot of fish at once.

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