Clowns spawned..

[TerraC]

Came home the other night to my common clowns spawning in my main tank. can't remove these and try raising them tho' they laid them on the base of a leather coral. I'm going to put a tile in next time and see if I can get them to lay on that, then i'll try raise them alongside my Clark's clowns in my little shed project.

[Gillybaby]

Nice one, well done. My Percs have started spawning but haven't quite figured out that the eggs aren't food yet ;)

[SteveS]

saw these eggs last night in the flesh, there cool :)

nice one ray, two successful pairs of spawning clowns are a credit to you, keep up the good work mate

steve

[oakwell]

mine lay all the time but are not as bright as these most of the time they are whitish...any ideas??

Well done on the spawning hope you have some success!

[tonyponty]

wow well done you 2 lets hope you have a few little clowns running around your tanks lol let us know if they have red noses lol

[TerraC]

Here's a little pic of the Clark's tank in my shed.

Oakwell:

mine lay all the time but are not as bright as these most of the time they are whitish...any ideas??


Usually if they are white they're either infertile or they've fungussed. They start off orange and go darker to brown and then silvery a day or 2 before hatching. The silver is the eyes in the egg casings.

[oakwell]

i have had some babys from them before but they got lost in sump gunna move them into a frag tank and see what happens

[TerraC]

Here's a pic of the eggs on day 4. They've gone darker and you can see eyes starting to develop.

[Reefer]

Fantastic pics and very interesting seeing the development, great stuff!

[Dons1903]

This is very interesting stuff.

How long do they take to hatch?

[tonyponty]

very intreting keep us updated please

[oakwell]

fantastic piccy!!

[Tangman]

Hi Ray Well done on raising the clowns, i will hopefully have a chat with you at the meet. Eric

[newkidfish]

fantastic job, please keep us posted, ive heard they are hard to feed once hatched.

[TerraC]

This is very interesting stuff.

How long do they take to hatch?

They take 7 days to hatch. within 2-4 days after that they've laid a new batch.

[TerraC]

fantastic job, please keep us posted, ive heard they are hard to feed once hatched.

yep getting them to spawn & hatch is the easy part. It's trial and error from there on. I'm getting there, ironing out mistakes i've been making.

The eggs in the pics are due to hatch tomorrow but I probably wont get any of those due to the eggs location. My shed breeding pair have eggs again which are due on thursday night and hopefully i'll have some luck this time. I've got them to 6 days old but then wipeout :(

[TerraC]

updated pic. you can clearly see the eyes now and they have gone more silvery.

[oakwell]

Keep at it , i am moving my breeding pair into my frag tank next week and will see if i have any luck.

Keep us updated very interesting:)

[liquidlogic]

facinating. nice1 mate keep it up

[TerraC]

ok the common clown eggs hatched last night into the main tank. obviously got eaten my the inhabitants tho' I'm going to put a small piece of terracotta pot in there to see if they'll lay on that.

My Clarki's are due to hatch on thursday, fingers crossed I get some out of it this time :D

[Dal]

very impressed by this thread:D well done mate I wish my clowns would lay!
Any tips or just perfect paras ect Thanks

[TerraC]

just good parameters, good food and they take 3 years to reach breeding maturity. :)

They like a stable place to live, leather coral or terracotta plant pot. provide these and you're away.

[Kev]

Nice one

I have a pair of Maroon Clowns, looks like I will have to wait another year then.

Kev

[lenny]

this is great stuff. well done and keep the photo's coming as long as possible. my own green chromies keep laying eggs all up the side glass but they do not hatch as yours have. the other fish see them as food too quick. lenny

[P25aul]

i have a pair of maroons, they lay every other week or so and hatch the eggs but never been able to rear them:mad: http://www.reefcorals.co.uk/forums/imagehosting/thum_191453ca9a4c1f57.jpg (http://www.reefcorals.co.uk/forums/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=90)

[Kev]

Hi P25aul.

Do you know how old your Maroons are?

Kev

[P25aul]

Hi Kev i am not sure exactly, i have had them for around 4 years and the female was already much larger than the male, so i think that she must have been close to maturity then, its a shame they breed 1/2 days after the fry go, still its a good source of natural food for the tank.

[moorish]

good stuff,i had a pair of maroon clowns the female was over 5ins long.they used to spawn on a regular basis but never managed to raise the fry.i had to rehome them because the female was so aggresive and would attack any fish which came close to the anemone where the eggs were laid.i now have a pair of red sea clowns which spawn on a regular basis but the fry get eaten straight after hatching.derek

[moorish]

hi, i have a pair of red sea clowns which spawn all the time the problem is i have no place to put the eggs and try and raise them.derek