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Posted: January 12 2010 at 9:44am |
I have success raising clown egg, but my pair is a regular clown. I am looking to raise different clown egg since I have all the set up for them, If any one have a true pair or other kind that lay egg but don't raise them let me have them and I will split the baby with you. I prefer in Davis area but will travel down to slc. Thanks for reading
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 11:07am |
You have had success raising clownfish? How many babies have you raised, to what age/size?
What do you mean by "regular clown"?
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 11:41am |
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My pair are female is percula, male is false percula. I have close to 100 babies now (ranging from 2 weeks to 4 months, 1/4 inch to 3/4 inch). I have a low hatch rate (less than 30 each time) this is due to removing the egg out of the parent tank. I planed not to remove the egg any more will try to catch the baby out of the parent tank from now on. The reason I consider that is a success because I was able to raise them past mentophase with less cassualty. Every batch I have at least half survive. May be to you success might define different than I define success.
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 11:48am |
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wow thats sweet clown fish.... man I would love some of those when they get bigger!
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Mark Peterson
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 5:59pm |
Can a Percula breed with an Ocellaris? Many times Ocellaris are sold as Percula simply to make more $$. Nobody can really tell the difference except if they know where the fish came from or they do an autopsy.
Do you have pics?
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 6:55pm |
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How often do they lay eggs spawn?
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Posted: January 13 2010 at 7:27am |
 Mark Peterson wrote:
Can a Percula breed with an Ocellaris? Many times Ocellaris are sold as Percula simply to make more $$. Nobody can really tell the difference except if they know where the fish came from or they do an autopsy.
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I am guessing too, since I know for sure my male is an Ocellaris, but my female is totally different as the marking appear. It is different from the true percula too. I didn't know the percula will sell for more $$. I have my as a trade. As I read somewhere it describe the percula has a black stripe a little bigger but not as big as a true percula vs the Ocellaris has a very thin black stripe or some don't even have any. I will take a picture sometime.
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Posted: January 13 2010 at 7:31am |
iriedodge wrote:
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every 16 to 18 days for my.
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Posted: January 13 2010 at 7:51am |
Mark Peterson wrote:
Can a Percula breed with an Ocellaris?
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Mark, to answer your question, my female is for sure not an Ocellaris, so it either percula or true percula, so now the question is can we mix an Ocellaris to a true percula? I didn't expect this pair up like this. At the time I was moving I have three of my Ocellaris and this percula in a tank and I saw them pair up. I move them to a different tank and after a few months they have spawns. I am very happy with the baby out come, they look like their mother more as all of them have the black tripe, I don't know the black will get bigger as they grown out.
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Posted: January 13 2010 at 9:44am |
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yes mark they can breed and produce viable offspring. I have a pair.
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Posted: January 13 2010 at 10:54am |
Cool 
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Posted: January 13 2010 at 11:26am |
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ours is obvious because the male is more of an onyx variant, I've heard of some weird combos before while we were gone we had a couple clowns jump tanks and came back to an ocellaris
acting friendly to a tomato, lol.
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Posted: January 13 2010 at 11:45am |
I've got a confirmed pair of Tomatoes as we speak but the fry are gobbled up before the have a chance to hide, kind of like Nemos siblings.
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