Wild Onyx Clownfish. Take 3

Came home a few mins ago and caught the clowns in the act of laying eggs. I am starting to figure out their schedule and might try to raise this batch of eggs.
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Apparently tonight is the night for onyx percs (although mine aren't WC).
This is their very first spawn (and it shows).

 
Ordered rotifers for friday delivery. Also, new pair of wild caught clowns getting delivered today to a fish store from Quality Marine as a special order for me. They were labeled as true pair of Onyx clowns on wholesale list so I am excited to see what they look like. It's very hard to beat my current male's color but if they are anything close to it I'd be very happy. Pics to come soon.
 
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They look really nice! Nice pick up! I'm glad that QM is doing such a good job of identifying them as an onyx pair.
 
Here's a video of the new pair eating TDO pellets. I honestly had no plans of buying them because I was waiting on a pair of Leucokranos clowns. However, after talking to a couple of sources including ORA it became apparent that Leucs aren't going to be available for some time. I even passed on a pair of nice looking Latz clowns a couple of months ago. So here I am with two pairs of A. Perculas.
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CoralsAddiction said:
Here's a video of the new pair eating TDO pellets. I honestly had no plans of buying them because I was waiting on a pair of Leucokranos clowns. However, after talking to a couple of sources including ORA it became apparent that Leucs aren't going to be available for some time. I even passed on a pair of nice looking Latz clowns a couple of months ago. So here I am with two pairs of A. Perculas.
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I think you made a wise decision. These look extremely nice for wild clowns that just came from a wholesaler. Many newly imported clowns I've seen in the past were skinny and had tattered fins, these look fat and happy.
 
D-Nak said:
I think you made a wise decision. These look extremely nice for wild clowns that just came from a wholesaler. Many newly imported clowns I've seen in the past were skinny and had tattered fins, these look fat and happy.
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I completely agree. I've had the same experience.
 
The new pair is doing good. Both clowns ate TDO pellets again this morning. Let's see how quickly I can get them to mate. Pair 1 was purchased as a mated pair as well. It took about 20 days to lay eggs in their new home which was a sump at the time. Lol. The hope is that the new pair will also be an overachieving egg laying couple. Haha.
 
CoralsAddiction said:
The new pair is doing good. Both clowns ate TDO pellets again this morning. Let's see how quickly I can get them to mate. Pair 1 was purchased as a mated pair as well. It took about 20 days to lay eggs in their new home which was a sump at the time. Lol. The hope is that the new pair will also be an overachieving egg laying couple. Haha.
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Are the tanks tied together? I read somewhere that if the tanks are connected, the hormones travel throughout the system and it encourages all pairs to spawn. I'm not sure how true it is, but two of the three pairs in my system spawn regularly.

Had I not thrown off one of the pair's cycle, they would've hatched on the same day. This happened once and it was a complete disaster -- the hundreds of babies completely decimated my rotifer supply and many ended up starving and I ended up having to order more rotifers.

People tend to think that large spawns are good. While the amount of babies is impressive, for what I'm trying to do, it's actually counterproductive. My goal is to produce high quality fish, and this is is far easier to do when working with a smaller amount of babies -- less food, less waste, and cleaner water -- overall easier maintenance.
 
D-Nak said:
Are the tanks tied together? I read somewhere that if the tanks are connected, the hormones travel throughout the system and it encourages all pairs to spawn. I'm not sure how true it is, but two of the three pairs in my system spawn regularly.
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Ive heard the same about hormones and I think it's true based on my own experience. When my first pair spawned in the sump, another pair that had only been paired for two months started to exhibit spawning behavior in DT. In the video below you can see them cleaning a little spot under a mag. They didn't do that before the first pair was in the sump and started spawning there. I eventually sold the pair that was in DT. In the ideal world, I'd like to raise babies from both pairs and then cross pair the babies for a different gene. I also only plan on keeping the darkest of the offsprings and I do realize that may take a while to figure out. But we shall see.
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Here are two pictures of my breeding male from today. He's such a stud and a hard worker. He's also mellow unlike the female who runs the whole tank.

 
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