And the Perculas win by an...egg!

[Gillybaby]

My two pairs of clowns (Percula & Tomato) have been in a race for the last 18 months, not that they've known anything about it I must admit (didn't want to put them off) :-?

But I can proudly announce that today my pair of Percula Clowns have won and have spawned for the very first time. I'm sooooo chuffed and have been watching them all afternoon :-D

On the downside, they seem to be eating as many as they are producing. Is this normal for first timers?

[oakwell]

yep i would say its normal....my clowns first 10 or so spawns resulted in them eating the eggs in a day or so.

I have actually had baby clowns once but they must have died more or less straight away, however they clowns will be moved very soon to a new frag tank so hopefully i will have some more sucess

[Macca]

Well done Gilly! I am happy for you.

Darren a new frag tank -- sounds intresting :twisted:

James

[Gillybaby]

yep i would say its normal....my clowns first 10 or so spawns resulted in them eating the eggs in a day or so.

Thanks, that's put my mind at rest.

Good luck with the frag tank project - sounds intriguing ;)

[Dons1903]

Great news :grin: :grin: :grin:

It is things like this that makes this hobby so great 8-)

[tonyponty]

thats nice to hear but i got told you cant mix clowns ?
and where do they spawn in tank and what on lol
because my sone as a pair and they are alway
getting in to top of his fillter they jump on top and wriggle in to a slot thats on there told him to try and catch them doing this on video should be a laff

[Gillybaby]

thats nice to hear but i got told you cant mix clowns ?
and where do they spawn in tank and what on lol
because my sone as a pair and they are alway
getting in to top of his fillter they jump on top and wriggle in to a slot thats on there told him to try and catch them doing this on video should be a laff

For the record, my two pairs of clowns are in different tanks. I honestly wouldn't dare to put my tomato clowns in with my percs cause my female tomato is a wee b***h. My percs host mostly in my frogspawn euphyllia and I've noticed that they've been cleaning the rock underneath recently and that's exactly where they spawned. As I understand it the cleaning behaviour is a definite prelude to spawning. I'm just glad I was around to witness it.

[marcoz]

congratulations on your babies gilly! :party:

[Tetley]

Yes well done - happy fish :grin:


ATB

Ian