Breeding Journal, Species: Premnas biaculeatus (Maroon)/Amphiprion ocellaris (False Perc)

General
Species:  Premnas biaculeatus (Maroon Male)/Amphiprion ocellaris (False Perc Female)
Social Structure: 
Size of Individuals:  Maroon Male 2", Oscillaris Female 3.5"
Age of Individuals:  Maroon Male 1 year old, Oscillaris Female 3 years old
Date added to Tank:  April 2011

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank:  36G Bowfront
Substrate Details:  BB
Filtration Details:HOB Skimmer
Water Changes:  1 5G Weekly
Water Temperature:  81F
Lighting: T-5
Lighting Cycle:  10am-7pm
Other Tank Inhabitants:  Various Snails, mostly dwarf cerith

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  Pellets, Roggers, Mysis
Feeding Schedule:  once daily at 6pm

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn:  5/28/11
Spawn Time of Day:  6am
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: 
Courtship Details:  Flirting in their ceramic cave, prespawn involved fanning and cleaning right side of cave.
Egg Size: 
Egg Color:  Orange
Egg Count:  500-700

Hatch Details
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Larval Tank Details
Temperature:  77
Size of Larval Tank:  10G
Substrate Details:  BB
Other Tank Decor:  Painted 3 sides, black cardboard on front
Filtration Details:  Nada
Lighting:  pc off to the side
Lighting Cycle:  24/7
Water Changes:  .5G Daily

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types:  Rotifers
Feeding Schedule: 8am, 1pm, 6pm

Metamorphosis/Settlement
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Date of Settlement End: 
Description of Fry: 

Grow-Out Tank Details
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Additional Information

Miscellaneous Information: 
I received this pair a few months ago in the hopes that I could get them to breed.  They were already an established pair i.e. hadn't killed each other, so I thought chances were good.  The Maroon is the male and the oscillaris is the female.

A ceramic cave made for me by a friend

When I first got them, in the acclimator

Haven't found the cave yet

Found it and almost never leave


Male always guards the back hole

I noticed that they had been cleaning and fanning the sides of the cave incessantly and thought that was a good sign.  That was thursday and friday.
Woke up the morning of Saturday 28th and saw a tiny batch of eggs (Look above the females head)


Upon closer inspection, I turned the cave a bit more, the shadow on the right...all eggs, the clutch is huge!!!

 

nice,good luck and keep the updates coming

Thank you gje!
 
And we have eyes!!

Any updates??
 

Hey Flynn,
Well the eggs hatched on the morning of the 4th, but I did not have my rots fully cultured so I lost them.  I am a little worried as I have not seen them prespawning since then.  I know it can take a couple weeks before they spawn again, but still..

Yes, my ocellaris are doing this now. I took the rock with the eggs out back in march to raise the fry, and they layed one batch of eggs since. I'm interested by your outcomes with this pair. I have a "maroon percula hybrid" that I would like to pair with another percula.

Success!  I noticed the female picking at the sides of the cave yesterday and sure enough, this morning I saw they had laid eggs, quite a bit bigger than the first batch too!!

Congrats!

Another success of sorts, I have baby clowns swimming in a sea of Green!
It is a bitter sweet time as I made a rookie mistake which resulted in a less than optimal hatch.
The night I thought they were going to hatch which was tuesday the 21st, I removed the cave and placed it in my 10G fry tank.  The hardest thing I found was getting the bubbles to be calm enough to wave the eggs and place the air stone in teh perfect spot. 
Anyway, Wednesday morning I woke up and found that only one fry had hatched.  I went ahead and left the cave in.  Thursday Morning I woke up and saw what I thought was a bunch of empty eggs and some fry swimming around the tank.  So I tinted the water and added rots and took the cave out.  I started tending to my other tanks and came back in a few minutes to rinse out the cave and saw this

 
Turns out what I though was clear was silver and most of my eggs hadn't hatched yet.  I have about 20 fry that hatched I'm keeping my fingers crossed that most make it.