Yellow Stripe Maroon Clown Breeding

[jackinfobo]

So I wanted to breed Yellow Stripe Maroon Clowns, but how easy are they to breed? Are they just like most other clowns? I was going to set up a specific tank for them with just live rock and an anemone. I mean it will have sand and filters and all, but just not corals like my other tanks. My main question is are Maroons able to breed easily in captivity like other clowns?

 

[deangelr]

They are not the easiest clown to breed, but not too difficult.. Their larvae are small and take longer to developed than occellaris

 

[DeathWish302]

You drive to pickup the eggs and rotate clay pots and they are yours. Before you go hog wild, make sure your local market can support the effort and cost you devote to your setup.

I've quite breeding all 'generic' common variants b/c of this. Give it a try though, for the sake of learning.

I have mine in my lagoon and enjoy annoying the female with the turkey baster and playing 'tag' more than enduring the bloody mess with seperating all those juvies when they turn into little demons..... Oh, that GSM breeding trial created a few sleepless nights.

 

[jackinfobo]

Thanks! That does help a lot because I could not find much about them breeding on the Internet. Also, I can only find them at my LFS when they are about 1.5 inches. How old do they typically need to be so that they can breed? My final question is will the fry eat live rotifers like other fish?
Thanks.

 

[DeathWish302]

At 1.5", they are probably around 18-24 months old IF they were the sole clown from a young age. My male is ~2-2.5" and is over 7 years old whereas the female is as big as my palm and is approx 8 years old. When they are kept as a pair, the age is unknown really by only considering length. If your clown was WC and mated, it could be older than my pair.

Do you know if it is CB or WC?

 

[jackinfobo]

That is really interesting! I never knew that about these fish. Does that rule go for all clowns? By the way, what does CB & WC stand for?

 

[DeathWish302]

That rule does apply to all clowns.

CB = Captive Bred
WC = Wild Caught

 

[Whip316]

mine are laying too and my femle is over 5" and she lays a massive nest of 800 eggs easily. i have a friend who has a pair with the female who really massive. she is over 6".
these are a little harder to raise than the others due to their small egg size and amount of babies. my onyx only hatch like 500 or so tops. so if you have rots and all those babies in the tank the O2 levels drop really fast and usually kill everything in my 10g tanks.