Breeding Journal: Amphiprion Percula

[FlynnFish]

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 Percula
Social Structure: mated pair
Size of Individuals: female 4-5 inches, male 4 inches
Age of Individuals: unknown
Date added to Tank: march 19 2011

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank: 12gallons of a 100gallon system
Substrate Details: bare bottom
Filtration Details: deep sand bed, live rock, filter socks, macro algae, bio-pellet reactor, soon to have ozone hooked up
Water Changes: 30 gallons once everyother week
Water Temperature: 78.4
Lighting: vho bulbs
Lighting Cycle: lights on at 9am, lights off at 10:30pm
Other Tank Inhabitants: pair o black ocellaris, and a pair of banded pipefish share space in system but not in tank

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types: TDO EP1
Feeding Schedule: three times a day

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn: unknown- pair was a mated pair before purchase, first for me --6/5/11
Spawn Time of Day: daytime
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: 6/5/2011, 6/19/2011, 7/6/2011*, 7/23/11, 8/8/11*, 8/26/11, 9/5/11, 9/19/11*, 10/8/11, 10/24/11
Courtship Details: unknown
Egg Size: 1mm
Egg Color: bright orange
Egg Count: 300 -500

Hatch Details
Hatch Date: 7/6/118/8/11,9/27/11
Hatch Time of Day: about midnight, about midnight, midnight
# Days after Spawn: 8 days, 8 days, 8 days
Larvae Description: clearish big silver eyes, clearish orange with silver eyes, silver bellies, light orange with brown tinge, big silver eyes, silver bellies


Larval Tank Details
Temperature: 80.2, 78.6,78.9
Size of Larval Tank:30 gallons, 13 gallons,13 gallons
Substrate Details:bare bottom, bare bottom, bare bottom
Other Tank Decor: heater air stone- one rock,airstone, air stone, heater
Filtration Details: HOB filter, sock filter, deep sand bed, live rock, macro algae, skimmer, bio pellet reactor, carbon, same as last
Lighting: PC, VHO, same as last
Lighting Cycle: 9:30 am - 10 :30pm, lights on at 9:3am,lights off at 10:30pm, same
Water Changes: none, none at present time , same as last

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types: rotifers- Otohime A, rotifers, Otohime A, Rotifers
Feeding Schedule: three times a day, three times a day, once a day

Metamorphosis/Settlement
Date of Settlement Start: 7/22/11, 8/26/11,10/6/11
Days after Hatch: 7,18, 9
Date of Settlement End: 7/23/11, 8/26/11
Description of Fry: swiming like normal clowns- have head stripe, head stripe visiable, normal swimming patterns

Grow-Out Tank Details
Temperature: varies 78-80.3, same
Size of Grow-Out Tank: 20 gallons of a 120 gallon system, same
Substrate Details: bare bottom, same
Other Tank Decor: ricordia mushroom coral, none
Filtration Details: filter sock, deep sand bed, macro algae, live rock, ASM skimmer, bio media reactor., same
Lighting: VHO, same
Lighting Cycle: on at 9:30 am, off at 10:30pm, same
Water Changes: once a week, 30% once a week
Size at Transfer: 1/4 inch, 1/8 inch
Age at Transfer: 35 days old, 31 days old

Grow-Out Feeding Details
Food Types: Otohime S1, new life spectrum thera +A crushed, TDO B2
Feeding Schedule: three times a day, same

Additional Information
Miscellaneous Information: *- indicates spawns that were collected for raising. information in red represent second batch rearing , Blue indicates third batch rearing.

[bigbill]

congratzs put me on the list :-]

[FlynnFish]

[/COLOR]Picture of parents. Male in background, female in foreground.


Picture of egg clutch


I feel like scraping off the corline algae with the eggs on it and setting it into my tank that has the picassos so they can see it and get a clue to start laying their own eggs, lol. but it was really exciting to see these on the side of the tank, i didn't think would do anything in such a small area.

[bigbill]

yea hope the do well i want a pair of them for the 12 gallon nano
gl ill be tom want to look at these things before i dose my tank

[FlynnFish]

Eggs hatched this morning sometime between 10:30 and 1. My lights are backwards.
Today I drug out some old tile squares from the crawl space and will give them a nice washing then will place them into the tank. hope the clowns will lay their next batch on these.

[FlynnFish]

My clowns laid more eggs on the 19th. But they decided not to use the tile. They picked another wall spot on the other side of the tank. I might try to raise these ones but I am scheduled for vacation next weekend for three days and they will only be 4 days old, unless I can talk my bested buddy Bill to babysit for me

[FlynnFish]

Eggs are set to hatch today. I'm finding myself with a tank all set up and waiting, and a bucket with a syphoning tube on standby today. lights go off at 11am and i'll be sitting and waiting. I have a clear acrylic partition over the sump that holds up a calcium reactor. On that i have a small flashlight sitting pointing into the tank and under the flashlight i have a dixie cup with the bottom cut out and thick dark fabric in it to act as aid to make a spot light to attract the fry once they hatch. shortly after 11 I will turn of the pumps and keep my fingers crossed.

[larryandlaura]

Awesome can't wait for a update. Good luck!

[FlynnFish]

Got the first one out a11:15 and they have been hatching in waves. I turn the flashlight off for a few minutes here and there to see if it is effecting the hatch rate or not. iI have almost 60 in a bucket now, looks to be around 100 left. (suddenly realized how many babies there are) sigh.

[FlynnFish]

Only half hatched today, but I counted around 124 in the bucket when I moved them to the tank.