Guerry's adventure in breeding

[rgfast]

Well everyone I've started a small breeding system, this is something that has not been quick to just jump into. I started by first reading many good books as well research on-line, also I didn't just have pair in DT that were laying eggs and think this would be cool to try LOL. I have five bonded pairs at this time all of which I purchased as juv's. so this is not going to be an over night success, I'm in it for the long haul. As of now my largest pair is 3"1/2 and 3" in size which I'd have to say are adults now and the pair I watch the most. At this moment all pairs are Ocellaris and I've just bought my first pair of designer clowns which are SA Black Ice. For what it's worth it took me awhile to come off the hip for them, needed to make sure I was in this for real. Thow I have had any spawning events I have cultured phyto and rotifers just to make sure I could when the time comes. Here's some pic's of my little set up to date

well thats all I've got for now, just I'd share my fun!

 

[yungreefer2410]

Looks like a great set up! Have you thought of adding maybe some macro algaes or soft coral to make the environment a little more natural? I don't know if this would make the fish more likely to spawn, I'm just tossing around ideas.

 

[rgfast]

I've just up graded their lighting this past week to LEDs so now they enough par in their tanks to support anemone's which I ordered two so far and should see by end of week

 

[yungreefer2410]

Hopefully that will put them in the mood haha.

 

[yungreefer2410]

Are those diy overflows noisy at all? From the pictures they look like they could have some serious gurgle

 

[rgfast]

They do make noise, but I think it's pretty much the norm for a breeding system and its not like their in the living room LOL

 

[rgfast]

well everyone it took a year starting with Juv. clowns but we are now on our third clutch in the last thirty days, The first clutch was pertty much a bust due to pilot area on my part. I had build a lavrae collector that was more suited for shrimp than fish, after only catching a few fry we designed new collector which worked great and we able to capture over a 100 fry for larvae tank. today we have 5 juvs. which I feel good about being first go at this. Today we had a much larger and better looking lay so in 8 days we will find out if we've learned anything with a larger survial rate. The losses we had on past clutch were do to tranfer and airstone that stop working while I was at work, all things that we are working on to make sure they don't happen again.

 

[frezel]

so awesome which of your clowns laid?

 

[rgfast]

the pair that have been laying are standard ocellaris, I have three of their clutches growing now with new hatch last night. I'm getting better at this LOL I'm skipping BBS and going from rotifers to TDO octohine A from Reed with great results. My biggest problem has been keeping nitrates down in brood stock system with feeding 4 times a day, I've added Matrix to sump and jus built ATS which has been only running for a week now. I've also been thinking of trying Kaldnes K1 media just waiting to see how well ATS works for now, nitrates as of now are running at about 20ppm to 15ppm after water changes which I've been doing bi-weekly