Breeding Journal DataSheet for Amphiprion ocellaris "Darwin"
General Species: Amphiprion ocellaris - the unique "Black" form originating from Darwin.
Social Structure: Male Female Pair
Size of Individuals: Female almost 3", male around 2"
Age of Individuals: Approximately 4 years at this time
Date added to Tank: Female was purchased 11/2/2006 from a LFS with a partner. The partner vanished on 1-7-2007, and was replaced with the fish that became the current male from RPI stock on 1-14-2007. I believe this male was known to be around 4-5 months of age when I got him.
Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: ultimately the pair has spent most of their lives in a 6 gallon nanocube.
Substrate Details: live sand
Filtration Details: stock nanocube filtration
Water Changes: roughly 50%, once or twice per month.
Water Temperature: 82F
Lighting: 2 X 18 watt PC (a Nanocustom's tank)
Lighting Cycle: 12 hours on, on timer
Other Tank Inhabitants: For a while, they shared their tank with a Yasha Hase Goby. The pair is kept with a Red Bubble Tip Anemone host.
Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: Virtually anything you could imagine...multiple types of pellet foods, frozen foods, squid, cyclopeeze, Rod's Food etc..
Feeding Schedule: At least twice a day, but usually more.
Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: 5/8/2008
Spawn Time of Day: early afternoon
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: - spawns have been sporadic and random for the past 1.5 years.
CourtShip Details: The day of the spawn, the male and female both intensely clean the nest site.
Egg Size: approximately 2 mm in lenght
Egg Color: orange
Egg Count: the first spawn was less than 50 eggs. Largest spawns to date have been several hundred, possibly almost to 1000.
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Additional Information Miscellaneous Information:
I originally kept track of this project first on Reef Central -
http://www.reefcentral.org/forums/showthread.php?t=963740 Then, updated again when they spawned for the first time, on MOFIB -
http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2630 For my past experiences, refer to the above threads. As this is a current project, new posts will be made below
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