Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:40 AM
Here's a picture of Mr. Big today:

 

 

 
See the yellow fins?
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:42 PM
sweet.  Whoo hoo for you Kathy!  You thinking misbar?

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:45 PM
Yup, longer on one side than the other.  I think he's cute.  Don't know why they have a reputation for ugly juveniles.
 
I'm just glad I got one to survive this far.
 
ps. just looked again. Not longer on one side than the other.  Just a drop on top for the middle bar.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:53 PM
mr Big is still growing.  Seems to like to associate with something, right now the sponge filter. He's getting a dark spot on his yellow tail.  I should take a picture.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:31 PM
Got some gorgeous pictures of broodstock from my friend Kevin S. and some more info to fill out this journal.  See the first post after a while, it'll be a few minutes for me to type it in.
SPAWNING WITH EGGS VISIBLE ON TOP

FEMALE:    

MALE:    

 

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:36 PM
MORE PICTURES OF MR BIG, 33 DAYS OLD:

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:55 PM
Kevin thinks the recent drop in temperature here, unusual for late May, is making them get in the mood.  He is expecting more eggs!

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Saturday, June 2, 2012 7:03 PM
Congrats Kathy, Mr Big is great, I really like the drop on his back.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Friday, July 13, 2012 7:37 PM
I haven't had another chance to try to raise these guys.. Figures, I have a roaring culture of S-rotifers now… They will likely lay a new nest when my rotifers crash...
 
Here's updated pictures.  Mr. Big has gotten smarter and doesn't like the camera.  He swam to join his ocellaris cousins, when I pointed the camera at him.  Usually he stays on top of the sponge filter.  That filter is not what keeps the tank clean.  It's on the ten tank system now.  The filter is just there to stay wet and live for when I need one.  Now it's Mr. Big's substitute anemone.
 
Those ocellaris, who used to be 1/20 the size of Mr. Big, have now overtaken him in size.  I think he doesn't venture far from the sponge to eat.  The ocellaris usually leave him alone.
Here's pix 7/13/12:

 

 

 
 
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Friday, July 13, 2012 7:45 PM
I was just thinking earlier this week I needed to request an update. Good to see he is doing well. Hopefully you will get another shot with them soon.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Friday, July 13, 2012 7:59 PM
Thanks Waldend!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Friday, July 13, 2012 8:17 PM
I didn't look through this thread before...Mr Big is sooo cute!!!!
Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Saturday, July 21, 2012 10:35 AM
Thanks, Mindy, I think so too. I have read that previous attempts to commercially raise this species were not successful because the juveniles are so unattractive, but I beg to differ,... based on this one.
Here he is on July 21, 2011, for the 60 day survival report:

He is shy of the camera now, so I couldn't get a good shot AFTER I cleaned the glass, but I'll try again later.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:38 PM
My friend, who owns the parental fish, 's life is settling down, and after 3 moves, he thinks the pair is getting in the mood again.  We await some new eggs.
 
Meanwhile I have him with a smaller ocellaris, not because I want him to mate, but because I want him to be a female.  So far so good. And I think his stripes are beginning to turn blue.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:47 PM
Earlier in the year, I gave Mr. Big to a friend along with a black ocellaris mate, for his office tank. Mr. Big started tearing up his mate, and my friend gave him/her back to me.  Now Mrs. Big is paired with a small ocellaris, and they are getting along well.  I hope She will spawn soon, and then I will get her a proper chrysopterus mate and try to raise babies.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Sunday, February 1, 2015 9:17 PM
Mrs. Big didn't like that mate either, so she is alone at the moment.  Kevin called me with news that he had eggs to share, so I picked them up today, and they should hatch tonight. I have them in a plastic bag cone hatcher.  The tank I want to put them in has something funky with the water.   It is strangely cloudy.  I may just drain it and start over.  I'm glad I re-read this thread, because I forgot a lot of what I did last time….Kevin's attempts at raising them were not successful, but the length of the larval phase for him was consistent with the larval phase length for me.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion chrysopterus - Saturday, February 28, 2015 3:12 PM
I'm thinkin of moving Mrs. Big in with a small Clarkii, since I have some, and they are more closely related to Mr. Big than the ocellaris with which I've tried, and failed, previously.  I would like to raise some more chrysopterus to make an appropriate mate for her, but my attempts to do so have not gone well.
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