Which clownfish should I breed?
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Eklikewhoa
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The most expensive ones you can find.
GSMguy
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phender
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The absolute best clowns to start with are also the best ones to breed to make money. That would be orange ocellaris.
Percs take too long to grow and develop. Black ocellaris take too long to start breeding. There is always a market for ocellaris. LFS will buy 25 or more at a time. When was the last time you saw 25 of any clown other than ocellaris at a LFS.
Expensive clowns are not the best choice. Most are difficult to breed, more difficult to raise, and once you do, you have to sell them one by one to clownfish collectors, because very few normal people see what we see in a rare clownfish. After the excitement wears off, I don't always see it either. I was very excited about getting a white-cap clown. After a few months I started to realize that it really wasn't that pretty and had a horrible personality.
Percs take too long to grow and develop. Black ocellaris take too long to start breeding. There is always a market for ocellaris. LFS will buy 25 or more at a time. When was the last time you saw 25 of any clown other than ocellaris at a LFS.
Expensive clowns are not the best choice. Most are difficult to breed, more difficult to raise, and once you do, you have to sell them one by one to clownfish collectors, because very few normal people see what we see in a rare clownfish. After the excitement wears off, I don't always see it either. I was very excited about getting a white-cap clown. After a few months I started to realize that it really wasn't that pretty and had a horrible personality.
Heterodonut
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phender, in your experience how much longer does it take black ocellaris to start breeding over the typical orange? Also, does this apply to Darwin wild caught ones as well as tank raised? Any theory on why that may be? Thanks
reefman13
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Well, O.clowns are the easiest to pair up and make happy. They also, are one of the types of clownfish where there is a lot of information about them.
One of the clownfish I am looking to breed is Picasso Percula clownfish, they sell for quite a high price but because we (school) are going the non-profit route, the local LFS will be able to sell them for less.
However, haveing a variety of clowns that you are breeding is also good so you can also have a variety of income
One of the clownfish I am looking to breed is Picasso Percula clownfish, they sell for quite a high price but because we (school) are going the non-profit route, the local LFS will be able to sell them for less.
However, haveing a variety of clowns that you are breeding is also good so you can also have a variety of income
shred5
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As far as the black and white occ. Isn’t there some sort of problem with them? I read a while back that very few larvae actually make it due to no new bloodlines or they are sterile or something like that. I do know a few people that do raise them though.
As far as making money you can pretty much forget it esp at first. I have just started breeding and it aint cheap at first and takes up a lot of time. You have to look at it as a hobby at first and hopefully you can help fund that hobby.
As far as rare clownfish there just aint much of a market for them. Most lfs do not want a 200 dollar fish because they can not move them and is a loss if they die. Take the onyx clown for example. A normal person that walks into a local fish store and sees a perc or occ. for around 20.00 and a onyx for 75.00 which are they going to buy? They will not see the difference between them.
reefman13
Does the piccasso offspring look like the parents or do they just end up looking like percs. What is ora doing to get them that misbarred? Is it just a defect in one of the parents and is this passed on to the offspring? Just because the parents produce these different looking offspring does not mean the offspring will produce offspring that look like that too.
Dave
As far as making money you can pretty much forget it esp at first. I have just started breeding and it aint cheap at first and takes up a lot of time. You have to look at it as a hobby at first and hopefully you can help fund that hobby.
As far as rare clownfish there just aint much of a market for them. Most lfs do not want a 200 dollar fish because they can not move them and is a loss if they die. Take the onyx clown for example. A normal person that walks into a local fish store and sees a perc or occ. for around 20.00 and a onyx for 75.00 which are they going to buy? They will not see the difference between them.
reefman13
Does the piccasso offspring look like the parents or do they just end up looking like percs. What is ora doing to get them that misbarred? Is it just a defect in one of the parents and is this passed on to the offspring? Just because the parents produce these different looking offspring does not mean the offspring will produce offspring that look like that too.
Dave
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phender
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Not sure where you got this info, but its not totally accurate. Picasso percs (ORA) are born from picasso parents. I believe they are now producing 2nd generation picassos. Not all the babies turn out picasso, but that is where they come from. In the case of the snowflake ocellaris (TMC) the original parents were normal but threw a small percentage of snowflake babies. I have seen babies from snowflake parents and a large percent of the babies were snowflake.
Neither company is doing any wierd stuff to the babies to make them the way they are. Under markings can be controlled by the environment. Over-marking seems to be genetic. Both companies are breeding specifically for the markings. It is not just random chance from a large volume.
