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Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion ocellaris
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:10 PM
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Breeding Journal DataSheet This first post should be updated regularly to include new information as events take place or changes are made to your system General Species: Amphiprion ocellaris Social Structure: Pair Size of Individuals: 4" & 2" Age of Individuals: 3 yrs Date added to Tank: June 3rd, 2009 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 125 gallon at first. Moved to a 10g due to the constant harassment from the tank mates. Substrate Details: bare bottom Filtration Details: Connected to the system with LR, Algae Scrubbler, UV, Protein Skimmer Water Changes: 55 gallon every 2-3 weeks progressively on the 200 gallon of system water. Water Temperature: 81F Lighting: 50/50 Lighting Cycle: 10am-10pm Other Tank Inhabitants: None. Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: Flakes/Pellet Feeding Schedule: 2/3 times a day Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: Discovered on May 12th, 2011 and estimated that it was the day 3 Spawn Time of Day: Various. Mostly early evening, and once it's at 9am. Dates of Consecutive Spawns: May 9th (est.), May 24th, Jun 6th, Jun 17th, Jun 28th, July 9th, July 21st. Courtship Details: They always hang out the same rock. During spawning, the female swim very close to the rock surface and lay eggs, and the male follow the same path right after her. Egg Size: normal? Egg Color: orange, then turn darker. The usual color changes. Egg Count: May 9th - 100, May 24th - 200, Jun 6th - 200, Jun 17th - 100, Jun 28th - 30, July 9th - 100, July 21 - 100 Hatch Details Hatch Date: May 17th, Jun 1st, Jun 14th, None, July 5th, July 16th Hatch Time of Day: 10:15pm # Days after Spawn: 8,8,8,0,7,7 Larvae Description: Very thin. Some are very tiny and skinny. Larval Tank Details Temperature: 81F Size of Larval Tank: 10 Gallon Substrate Details: Bare Bottom Other Tank Decor: Small sponge filter but only 1 bubble/sec at first. Filtration Details: 5 Gallon Sump with sponge filter in the sump. Water circulation between sump and tank through 53um filters both in the water intake and at the pump. Lighting: Day 1-3, 5W LED 3" from the water first 2-3 days. Day 3-4, 7W CF bulb. Day 5+, 11W CF bulb. Lighting Cycle: 24 hours until meta. 8am-12am afterward. Water Changes: 10% every day or 2 while siphoning out bottom dirt. Latest design with the green water sump make siphoning very difficult due to the dark green color of the water. However, pH remain very high and perfect water parameter. Only siphon the bottom every 3-4 days by draining most of the water out until I can see the bottom. Larval Feeding Details Food Types: Day 1-10ish Rotifer, Day 3+ Otohime, Day 5+ BBS. Feeding Schedule: 3 times a day Metamorphosis/Settlement Date of Settlement Start: None, None, Jun 21, None, Jul 11th, Jul 22th Days after Hatch: 7 Date of Settlement End: None, None, Jun 25 (except 2), None, Jul 18th, Jul 25th Description of Fry: By day 7, a couple of them starts to have kink tail. By day 8, many have the first head band. By day 9-10, most are done with meta except 1 or 2. Grow-Out Tank Details Temperature: 81F Size of Grow-Out Tank: 40g Substrate Details: Bare bottom. Other Tank Decor: lot of flower pots. Filtration Details: Connected to the system with UV and skimmer. Lighting: Just environment light from 6' above. Lighting Cycle: 9am-10pm Water Changes: Via the system. Size at Transfer: 1" Age at Transfer: 60 days old. Grow-Out Feeding Details Food Types: TDO C1 Feeding Schedule: 3-4 times a day Additional Information Batch 1 - Completely not prepared. No food for them at all. All dead by 2nd day. Batch 2 - Didn't understand the rotifer density issue and were underfeeding them. All dead by 3rd day. Batch 3 - On going. Roughly 50-70 of them. The last one settled on 6/29. Feeding top dressed Oto C1. Batch 4 - We were on vacation. Eggs were all gone when we were back. Batch 5 - On going. About 20 larvae. Very few eggs were laid and hatched. Rotifer crashed by 3rd day. They are solely depending on Oto A and small amount of BBS. Batch 6 - Eggs were laid on 7/09 morning. Hatch on 7/16 Sat 10:15pm. About 50. Batch 7 - 7/21/2011. Spawned in early morning just like last time. 100+ eggs. (No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please) Miscellaneous Information: You will be required to provide photographic or video evidence in this thread of each event submitted for the MBI Program. If your thread does not contain these photos the MBI Committee will not be able to approve your reports. PHOTOS AND VIDEO S MUST BE PLACED IN ADDITIONAL POSTS, NEVER IN THE FIRST POST IN A JOURNAL.
<message edited by chuenwe on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 3:55 PM>
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Batch 1 - May 9th
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:15 PM
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Batch 2 - May 24th
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:21 PM
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Batch 3 - June 6th, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:35 PM
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Batch 4 - June 17th, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:45 PM
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Batch 4 Day 0 - 6/17 Fri - Spawned pre-9PM Day 1 - 6/18 Sat - Left for 2 days vacation and the eggs were gone when we were back....
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Batch 5 - June 28th, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:51 PM
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Egg Day 0 - 6/28 Tue - Spawn in the morning or last night? It's prabably gonna hatch on Day 7. Egg Day 1 - 6/29 Wed Egg Day 2 - 6/30 Thur Egg Day 3 - 7/01 Fri - Prepared a tank with green water and have a bright light on it and try to get algae grows on all surface. At the same time, calibrate the new heater is at the correct temperature. Also have a bucket of green water testing out the new design of phyto fuge. Egg Day 4 - 7/02 Sat Egg Day 5 - 7/03 Sun - Put in some rotifer and let it populate the tank. Egg Day 6 - 7/04 Mon Egg Day 7 - 7/05 Tue - Mix up the water between the rearing tank and parent tank. Only a few eggs are silver. I guess it's another Day 8 deal... Guessed wrong. Hatched at night. Larvae Day 0 - Only handful of eggs left and hatched. Roughly about 20. Larvae Day 2 - 7/07 Thu - My 'phyto fuge' method is working too well. Water stays solid dark green, i can't even see the bottom to clean the tank! Larvae Day 3 - 7/08 Fri - Did the first clean up and water change. Sucked out maybe 5 dead bodies at the bottom after cleared out most of the water. Larvae Day 4 - 7/09 Sat - Both rotifer bucket crashed. Larvae are still peanut shape, probably from the existing population of rotifer in the tank. Feeding them quite a bit of oto A few times a day. Larvae Day 6 - 7/11 Mon - No rotifer to add. Feed some BBS twice and lot of Oto A. Did the bottom cleaning a bit. Some larvae started bending their tails. Larvae Day 7 - 7/12 Tue - A few already have first white band and staying at the corner quietly. Lot of fish racing again. At night, all have calmed down. Many of them are scaping the water surface to eat the Oto A. Larvae Day 8 - 7/13 Wed - While the rearing tank is in deep dark green color due to the 11W CF bulb 3" from the water, the 5 gallon "green water" sump is getting lighter color. Got a sample out and look at it via a 30x, rotifier!! lol! A big full bucket of dense rotifer in yet still green water after so many days. I guess my design is really working, in a way. Siphon out 1.5g of rotifer/green water from the sump to feed the larvae. Dripping parent tank water into the rearing tank. Late at night, many larvae who have hand band are all swimming in big circle very fast. Larvae day 9 - 7/14 Thu - Rotifer feeding resume + Oto A & BBS. More system water dripping into the rearing tank. Not going to use the sump water now since it's infested with rotifer. Almost all except a couple of them are done with meta. Larvae day 10 - 7/15 Fri - Took half of the water out to seed the tank for Batch 6. pH drops to 7.4. Water becomes much clearer. More often parent tank water dripping in. Larvae day 11 - 7/16 sat - Took out lot of rotifer from this tank to Batch 6 tank. Also added system tank water into it and let it overflow into the rotifer bucket. Cleaned up the bottom few times today. Found out a few "larvae" are still very "larvae" at the bottom while most of already done with meta. Larvae day 12 - 7/17 Sun - Except 1 or 2, all are done with meta. Removed water overflow and increasing water volume. Trying to decrease the rotifer density. Fish day 13 - 7/18 Mon - I don't see any larave in the middle of the tank any more. I think all have passed meta. Thin out half of tank worth of rotifer and fill in more system water and added more green. Keep trying to feed Oto A. Fish Day 15 - 7/20 Wed - Roti is real thin now after thinning it out and added lot of system water. Only feeding the roti only once and small amount of BBS. Fish Day 17 - 7/22 Fri - Can hardly see any Roti in the water. Still lot of copepods. Water getting greener. Fish Day 18 - 7/23 Sat - Still trying to feed them Oto A but look like they are still full from copepods. Fish day 19 - 7/24 Sun - All of them finally taking Oto B1 very obviously now. Larvae Day 8 - Illegal Racing At Night (in HD) Larvae Day 8 - Eating rotifer (zoom in view) Larvae Day 12 - Lot of pots!! Larvae Day 15 - Clean shot of a copepod
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Batch 6 - July 8th, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:54 PM
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Egg Day minus1 - ETA 7/08 Fri - Nothing happened, althought the mom does look like she is ready and both were cleaning the rock rigorously. Egg Day 0 - 7/09 Sat - Spawned in the morning!! Egg Day 4 - 7/13 Wed - Getting lazy and didn't even bother looking at the parent tank much. Spray painted another 10g tank. Got a new 5g bucket ready as the sump. Filled 2.5g new saltwater at 1.0017 and poured in 1/4 L of nano. Bubbling is on. Light will be on 10am-10pm. Egg Day 5 - 7/14 Thu - Have about 10 of them with silver eyes. That's kinda early! Started new green water bucket with 1/2L phyto. Got dirty green water from Batch 5 tank to seed new tank. Add water and lights on 24hr. Egg Day 7 - 7/16 Sat - Almost half of them have silver eyes. Should hatch tonight. Larvae Day 0 - 7/16 Sat - Hatch after 10pm as usual. A bit early but kinda expected since it spawned in the early morning. Should have take that into consideration. About 50 of them. Really tiny. Put into a rearing tank with just about 10% green water. Don't have the piping to feed live green water to it yet. Larvae Day 1 - 7/17 Sun - All 50+ larvae seems to be very active. Most of them are running in circle under the light. Keeping water stay green using the bucket green water prepared few days the larvae were hatched. Larvae Day 2 - 7/18 Mon - Most still gather under the light. Only 1 died at night. pH at 7.8 and water is not as green. Rotifer density is very high. Will have to thin it out tomorrow if the pH drops. Larvae Day 4 - 7/20 Wed - A couple of them starts to have kink tail. Lot of them hanging by the middle of the wall. Larvae Day 5 - 7/21 Thu - Almost all of them starts to swim very slowly now. Larvae Day 6 - 7/22 Fri - 1/3 of them are clinging to a side of the tank wall instead of swimming in the middle. Quite a few of them have kink tail. Larvae Day 7 - 7/23 Sat - The rotifer density finally dropped down to 5 or so. Feed them some roti in the afternoon. Larvae Day 8 - 7/24 Sun - All are in pre/mid-meta right now. Fish Day 9 - 7/25 Mon - Majority of them are done with meta and clinging on the tank wall. Fish Day 11 - 7/27 Wed - Still no clear sign of them taking Oto A. Tank still flooded with roti and copepods. Added half a bottom of phyto to keep it green. Fish Day 12 - 7/28 Thu - A few taking Oto A. Others just cling to the corners. Fish day 14 - 7/30 Sat - Not much change. Few take Oto A. Some other seems to try to chase for it but doesn't seem to eat it. Fish Day 17 - 8/2 Tue - They are living on plain water and whatever pod left over. Feeding them Oto B1. Fish Day 21 - 8/6 Sat - They are eating Oto B2 now. Sold 10 of them and mixed the rest into Batch 5 tank. Fish Day 25 - 8/10 Wed - Big fish ball!
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Batch 7
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:53 PM
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Egg Day 0 - 7/21 Thu - Spawned in the morning like last time. (12 days from last spawn) Egg Day 6 - 7/27 Wed - Lot of silver eggs. May be one day early? ETA Hatch on Egg Day 7 - 7/28 Thu Egg Day 7 - 7/28 Thu - 15 hatched. 7/29 Fri - Parent cleaned off the rock. 7/31 Sun - Gave away the 18 larvae to someone else to raise. - THE END -
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Batch 6 Hatched 7/16 Sat
Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:14 AM
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Hatch after 10pm as usual. A bit early but kinda expected since they were spawned in the early morning. Should have taken that into consideration. Used "siphon with funnel with LED->BRT->overflow->sump->pump back to parent tank" method to collect larvae. About 50 of them. Really tiny. Put into a rearing tank with just about 10% green water. Don't have the piping to feed live green water to it yet.
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Batch 7
Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:27 AM
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It spawned in the early morning of July 11, 2011 Thursday. These pictures are captured via a webcam using screen capture on a browser. Will get better picture when I get home.
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Re:Batch 7
Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:15 AM
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Here is a slightly better picture for the Batch 7 eggs:
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Re:Batch 5
Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:26 AM
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Batch 5 is 19 days old today. As of yesterday, they still wouldn't take Otohime. I believe it's due to the large amount of pots in the tank. It was not intentional. It somehow got contaminated into the tank I believe from day 1 when I got the rotifer from Batch 5's tank. Batch 5 tank's rotifer was booming to a crazy rate back then. Had over 30/ml. Today, the baby fish all jump at the Oto B1 when I feed them. Copepods on Batch 6 tank wall:
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Re:Batch 6
Monday, July 25, 2011 3:16 PM
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Batch 6 is 9 days old. Most of them are done with meta and clinging to the tank wall. Still trying to feed them Oto A but they don't seem to be interested. Not feeding them any NHBS and leave the rotifer density low by feeding them rotifer only once a day or less. There are some copepods in the tank from contamination though.
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Re:Batch 7
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 7:39 PM
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Batch 7 eggs are on Day 6 today but already have lot of silver eggs. ETA suppose to be tomorrow. Going to turn off the pump before light out, just in case. Only about 50 eggs left. Update: 2 hr after light out. Three hatched. Weird. Put them into the rearing tank with green water. Added rotifer/pod from batch 6 tank into this one.
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Re:Batch 7
Friday, July 29, 2011 1:10 AM
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Batch 7 are on Day 7 today, and only another 10 hatched! This is the 2nd day hatching already. Still have lot of eggs left. It never hatched like this before. Majority of the eggs always hatched in 1 day before. I'm starting to suspect that my new larvae catcher's LED is too bright. From last batch, the first time I used that LED, only half of the eggs were hatched. And this time, 3 hatched on first day, and 10 hatched on 2nd day...
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Re:Batch 7
Monday, August 15, 2011 11:23 AM
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Great notes! I enjoyed reading this.
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Re:Batch 7
Monday, August 15, 2011 11:26 AM
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Thank you!! I wondered if anyone would read this at all since these are the most common type of clown fish.
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Re:Batch 3 - June 6th, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 3:43 PM
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Here is a picture of my oldest batch. They were hatched on June 14th. Almost 3 months old now.
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Re:Batch 3 - June 6th, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:34 PM
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Real nice color on those.
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Re:Batch 7
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 11:55 PM
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 Originally Posted by chuenwe
Batch 7 are on Day 7 today, and only another 10 hatched! This is the 2nd day hatching already. Still have lot of eggs left. It never hatched like this before. Majority of the eggs always hatched in 1 day before. I'm starting to suspect that my new larvae catcher's LED is too bright. From last batch, the first time I used that LED, only half of the eggs were hatched. And this time, 3 hatched on first day, and 10 hatched on 2nd day... It could be that, or it could be related to a slight change in temperature. Your fish are beautiful, and very well developed for 3 months. Great work.
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