AquariumChatter.com — Breeding

My maroon clown fish pair recently began to spawn again.  Unfortunately for me they are spawning on the glass which makes the collection more difficult.  I used to use the bowl method where you would use a flashlight to attract the larvae then scoop them out with a bowl.  It was time consuming and you will kill some larvae in the process.  I have seen some commercially available products called larvae collectors but read about a guy selling a DIY one.  I picked one up off of the marine breeding initiative site.  The way it works is that it is...

My first two batches of Onyx Percula clownfish have hit 10 months old and are looking pretty good.   They are getting some interesting patterns, and are beginning to develop their black coloration.  Most of them are close to 1.5 inches in size.  One thing that I think is interesting is there are two different color variations that seem to be showing up.  One variation has a darker orange coloration and the other ones are very light orange almost yellow coloration. From what I have heard this has been seen with some other peoples Onyx Percula clownfish.  I plan to keep...

Well I have been having some struggles with clownfish larvae dying the first night after hatch.  This time I tried mixing using a  50/50 mix of  water from my brood stock system and freshly made saltwater.  It seemed to make a big difference as I had about 75-100 clownfish larvae alive after the first night.  Over the next 10 days I lost some but I still have around 50 or so left that went through metamorphosis.  At this point they are looking pretty good and eating a ton of food.  I am using TDO size "a" dry food and newly...

In the last year I have gotten very interested in breeding and raising saltwater fish.  I was searching for a good website that was dedicated to marine fish breeding.  I got some website recommendations from other experienced saltwater fish breeders and instantly became hooked to the Marine Breeding Initiative website and forum.  The entire website is broken down into two sections.  The first are is a report area where you can earn points and document milestones such as spawning, hatching and settlement of the saltwater fish larvae.  You can search through 100's of reports on how certain species were raised...

My Onyx Percula clownfish spawned recently and I hatched the eggs in a half full 10 gallon aquarium.  I have been having some problems with the clownfish larvae dieing in the first 8 hours after hatch.  I usually take the water out of the brood stock tank and use that for hatching the larvae in the larvae tank.  This time I used 50% newly made saltwater and 50% water from the brood stock system.  For this batch I ended up with 60-70% surviving the night and after 5 days I have about 50 larvae left getting close to metamorphosis.  This...