Breeding Journal: amphiprion clarkii

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Breeding Journal DataSheet

This first post should be updated regularly to include new information as events take place
or changes are made to your system

General
Species: amphiprion clarkii
Social Structure: rock tank with two other fish
Size of Individuals: female is 4inches male is 2-3 inches
Age of Individuals: both 1 year
Date added to Tank: both added in June

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank: 6'x2'x2'
Substrate Details: aragalive fiji pink with reef grade sand
Filtration Details: sump design, G2 skimmer, "bashsea" (dolphin) 3500 pump
Water Changes: 25 gallon water changes once every two weeks
Water Temperature: 78 degrees F
Lighting: 2 60" fish need it fixtures. 1 ATI blue plus, 1 noname blue bulb, 2 ecoflux HO
Lighting Cycle: 10:30am-7:20pm
Other Tank Inhabitants: Yellow coris wrasse, purpleback pseudochromis, hermit crabs, mexican turbo snails,

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types: new life spectrum thera +A, ocean nutrition formula two flake food, frozen mix of spirulina brine,rods food original, mysis shrimp.
Feeding Schedule: pellet food @11am, flake food @ 2pm, frozen foods @ 7pm
Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn: 10/15/10
Spawn Time of Day: night
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: 10/15/10, 11/2/10*, 11/17/10, 12/1/10, 12/16/10, 12/30/10,
Courtship Details: not observed
Egg Size: normal
Egg Color: clear with a bit of orange, silver eyes
Egg Count: 100+

Hatch Details
Hatch Date: 11/11/10
Hatch Time of Day: night
# Days after Spawn: 9 days
Larvae Description: clear, no yolk sac, big eyes, little bit of an orangey color near the tail.


Larval Tank Details
Temperature: 80
Size of Larval Tank: 30 gallons
Substrate Details: bare bottom
Other Tank Decor: air stone
Filtration Details: wisper filter
Lighting: 24 inch 19 watt flouresent bulb (it looks pink)
Lighting Cycle: 11am- 7pm
Water Changes: 6 gallon water change once a week

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types: L-type rotifers from reef nutrition that are fed roti-grow plus, live baby brine shrimp, cyclopeze
Feeding Schedule: 2 cups at 8am, 1 cup at 11am, one cup at 4pm, 2 cups at 7pm.
Metamorphosis/Settlement
Date of Settlement Start: 11/27/10
Days after Hatch: 17
Date of Settlement End: 11/29/10
Description of Fry: black yellow with 3 stripes. one clown still in larval phase

Grow-Out Tank Details
Temperature: 82.6
Size of Grow-Out Tank: 8 gallon biocube
Substrate Details: 1 inch deep sandbed of fiji pink aragalive
Other Tank Decor: sponge over bottom inlet of filter
Filtration Details: standard filter on biocube
Lighting: power compacts
Lighting Cycle: 11am-7pm
Water Changes: 2 gallons once a week
Size at Transfer: 1/4 inch
Age at Transfer: 26 days

Grow-Out Feeding Details
Food Types: fish are now 60days post hatch, eating mix of cyclopeeze, frozen brine, crushed therea +A pellet food ad crushed formula one flake fod.
Feeding Schedule: 11am, 2pm,4pm,7pm, maybe small snacks here and there of baby brine.

Additional Information
Miscellaneous Information: parent clowns hosting a long tentacle anenome

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clarkii eggs


Mom in foreground, Dad in back ground


eggs were moved into the hatching tank today. they should hatch tomorrow.

[ReefSolutions]

my eggs hatched last night!!! good thing i was doing things a day early! i'm so excited!!!!! about half of the eggs hatched, so i'm waithing on the others. i do see a few casualties floating on the top i already got a few pics so i'll post them soon.

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i counted 63, but thats only what i seen across two sides of the tank, and not including the bottom, so i'm sure there's more.

[ReefSolutions]

babies are still doing good, counted at least 37 today. removed unhatched eggs. they look bigger today, but it might just be me.

[fishtal]

Are you using RotiGreen or some other type of phyto? Your water looks pretty clear...

[scubamomma]

soo cute i love baby clowns!

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I went and fed the baby fishies this morning and i have 8 babies that all of their stripes and the other 4 have their head stripes. They are now swimming in groups of 4 or 6 and i'm sure pecking orders are going to start and i'll have to seperate a few of them like Tal does. But all in all things are still going well.

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Heres the babies getting moved to their new tank, an 8 gallon nano. step mom needs to make room for more babies this weekend.
babies in the bucket


the little runt.


babies in their new tank

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well the little guys are now 41 days post hatch and doing great. i did end up loosing the little runt, Just as i was telling Tal Sweet that it was doing great despite it's size.
I still have 10.