Breeding ocellaris clowns

[BLUEaquarium06]

Okay so i am pretty much brand new to saltwater tanks, mad a c**p ton of mistakes lost some fishies and coral, still trying to right some of the wrongs that I have made, but ive had 3 fish that have held on for the ride, 2 ocellaris clownfish and a strawberry dottyback, When i first started my tank i used tap water, and had lots of water problems, i just started doing water changes with rodi water, and everything seems to be a whole lot better, but anyway my clowns laid eggs and i have become obsessed with research and everything else on breeding clowns, I wanted to make a thread for everyone else who is also obsessed and for others who have actually succeeded. So if you are interested in following my most likely doomed story and others who have hopefully successfully done this please post here for, and id love to see some pictures. bellow are 2 pictures of my clowns and the whole tank.

 

[BLUEaquarium06]

forgot the pictures lol

 

[BLUEaquarium06]

...3rd times the charm

 

[cushadow]

Can't wait to see people responded this. I have two false perculus clown in my 30gal reed tank. It is only 6 month old.


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[BLUEaquarium06]

Thats cool, do you want them to breed? there is probably about a 0% chance these eggs survive, but it would be really cool if they did. right now the only coral that i have that has survived was a little thing of zoas, I want to get some frogspawn and put it right by where they laid there eggs because that seems like the best spot to put it, but im scared to now

 

[cushadow]

If they do yay if they don't oh well I just like there personalities.


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[mr_X]

It's very easy to breed clowns, but you need a species specific tank for them and different types of food along the growth process. There are plenty of how-to's on the net if you google "breeding clownfish". The eggs you have there will not survive.

 

[BLUEaquarium06]

I doubted they were going to survive, and i have been doing boatloads of research on breeding and food and tanks, everything you can imagine. I am more interested in people posting there first hand experiences with breeding them, photos, etc. I do have one question though, would it be alright for me to place frog spawn above where the eggs are laid? i attached a picture, the eggs are circled in red and where i want to put the frag is in blue

 

[mr_X]

Sure. Unless of course the clowns object to you putting stuff near the eggs, and decide to kill it. You just gotta watch their behavior.

 

[BLUEaquarium06]

Thank you for the help Mr. X,

now i was looking at more stuff on breeding clowns and i came across this site, it is very cool and a good read on it. I thought i would share it with everyone
Reefs Magazine - The Odd Couple (A. percula "Onyx" X A. ocellaris "Darwin")

I also attached some pictures from the site with growth in days of the fry