Breeding Journal DataSheet for Amphiprion percula "Onyx"
General Species: Amphiprion pecula "Onyx"
Social Structure: male female pair
Size of Individuals: Female almost 3", male 2"
Age of Individuals: unknown, wild caught
Date added to Tank: June 20th, 2005
Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 24 gallon nanocube
Substrate Details: Live sand
Filtration Details: stock nanocube filtration
Water Changes: 25% weekly
Water Temperature: 78-80F
Lighting: stock 50/50 power compacts
Lighting Cycle: 12 hours on, on timer
Other Tank Inhabitants: many other fish over the years....
Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: They eat everything. Pellets, Flakes, Frozen, Mysis, Brine, Cyclopeze, Squid, you name it.
Feeding Schedule: at least 2-3 times per day.
Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: 9/22/2006
Spawn Time of Day: afternoon
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: too many to mention. They spawn roughly every 3 weeks in general, and have done so now for years.
CourtShip Details: Female joins in nest cleaning the day of spawning.
Egg Size: 3 mm in length roughly?
Egg Color: bright orange
Egg Count: first spawn was only 50-100, but most spawns are closer to 1000 (and have verified proof of over 1000 eggs)
Hatch Details Hatch Date: 9/30/2006 to 10/1/2006 (hatched overnight)
Hatch Time of Day: roughly the midnight to 1 AM hour
# Days after Spawn: 8
Larve Description: small, kinda silvery, with a tiny orange belly, fully formed eyes mouth gut etc...
Larval Tank Details Temperature: 82F
Size of Larval Tank: 10 gallon
Substrate Details: none
Other Tank Decor: none - sides and bottom painted black
Filtration Details: none
Lighting: 18" 15watt standard strip light
Lighting Cycle: probably was on about 18 hours a day
Water Changes: probably none
Larval Feeding Details Food Types: rotifers
Feeding Schedule: constant (greenwater technique, probably using Nanno and Tet)
Metamorphosis/Settlement Date of Settlement Start: 10-10-2006
Days after Hatch: 9 full days (larvae had sttled by morning of 10-10)
Date of Settlement End:
Description of Fry:
Grow-Out Tank Details Temperature: 78-80
Size of Grow-Out Tank: 24 gallon broodstock tank, in a breeder net - 2 weeks later placed in a 6 gallon nanocube
Substrate Details: none
Other Tank Decor: none
Filtration Details: stock nanocube filtration
Lighting: standard nanocube twin power compact flourescent
Lighting Cycle: 12 hours, on timer
Water Changes: 25% weekly
Size at Transfer: 1/4" at most
Age at Transfer 10 days+
Grow-Out Feeding Details Food Types: Crushed flakes & pellets, Otohime pellets, baby brine shrimp
Feeding Schedule: at least 2-3 times per day
Additional Information Miscellaneous Information:
Originally documented my breeding efforts with this pair on Reef Central -
http://www.reefcentral.co...d.php?threadid=934645 (where it was Thread of the Month), got banned, posted briefly on Marine Depot (
http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic62574-12-1.aspx ) then followed up on MOFIB for a long time at:
http://www.marinebreeder....bb/viewtopic.php?t=211 Heck, as recently as today,
2-5-2010, they pair just put down another nest. They have been consistent spawners since their first spawn years ago.
Here's some pictures from my past efforts:
First good spawn picture, shot 10-2-06 
Another random spawning picture, shot 12-5-2006 
17+ days post hatch, shot on 10-17-2006 
15 days post hatch, under the QX5 at 10X 
A later batch,shot at 17 days post hatch 
First batched moved to their own nanocube at 25 days post hatch. 
50 days post hatch 
66 days post hatch 
87 days post hatch 
92 and 65 days post hatch 
99 and 72 days post hatch 
99 days post hatch 
109 and 82 days 
112 days, a different batch, hosting in Xenia with an Allardi 
342 days post hatch - these last three images are of the same baby...shows again how stripes develop over LONG periods of time in perculas. 
541 days post hatch, and tailstripe is only now forming 
665 days post hatch (fish on the lower left, firsh on right is a WC perc) 
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