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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:07 AM
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Here is a photo of one of the individuals for the 60 dps report.  I was trying to get a better shot of him, but he didn't like the little tank I was taking photos of him in and just tried to hide in the corners.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:18 AM
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beautiful!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:44 AM
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I have a real soft spot for the little clarkii's.
They are always doing stuff that is entertaining, exploring the tank with gusto and they always seem to be in a hurry.
One of them in particular likes to swim back and forward over the top of an airline that floats in the tank. A bit like an Olympic swimmer going over floats/rope marking the lanes. He will do it for three for four minutes, back and forward, then will just stop and swim off. Each time its a matter of pushing himself out of the water and over the airline.
Its quite funny to watch and if you interrupt him by putting a finger in the way, he will just move to another location and keep doing it.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:12 AM
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What's interesting to me is that the black coloration carried through to the juveniles,given that some of the "black" forms of our fish are more environmental / epigenetic (i.e. take Black Tricinctus out of their mertens anemones and they revert to normal coloration supposedly)
Nice job!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:14 AM
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I have one other question - where did you get these Clarkii from? Do you know the geographic location? I find the wide bands and particularly the "gold crest" on the one very interesting...they almost look as if there's a small dosing of Latezonatus in them!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:54 AM
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Darren, the new pic of the adults is nice...they are gorgeous! I can't believe how dark the babies are. I have some Galaxy Clarkii from Bali Aquarich, and they are very dark as well, but start out reasonably light colored. I'm not sure of their origins, but Aquarich's website lists the normal barred Clarkii as originating in the Indian Ocean. I have an ORA Clarkii that is probably approaching a year old that is still very, very light colored. Weird there is so much difference in one specie. Matt, that's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the first photos. The white bars are sooo wide! However, if you read his first page Matt (tsk tsk lol) he states their geographic location:
 Originally Posted by CaptCrash I talked to the supplier I got them from this morning when picking up some other fish. They are Western Australian, clarkii from the Ningaloo Reef area. He had another pair, one of which was almost identical to the ones I have.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:40 AM
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Yes, they are from the Ningaloo Reef area, It's about 1,300km (800 miles) north of Perth.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Saturday, April 7, 2012 10:51 PM
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Over the last three weeks I have been adding sponge filters to each of the brood stock tanks as I go through the tank cleaning process.
This pair, previously would only lay nests on the stand pipe in the tank. With the introduction of the sponge filter, they have now started laying on the glass in the front left corner of the tank.
They are not interested in the flower pot at all.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Monday, August 13, 2012 11:29 AM
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This morning about 11am the clarkii pair laid what I think is their biggest nest yet. The photo is from tonight and is not great but it gives an idea as to the number of eggs.  The nest is on a 25mm/1" diameter pipe and about 60% is shown. The nest is 165mm/6.5" tall. I have no idea just how many eggs are there, but I would guess 600+
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Monday, August 13, 2012 2:27 PM
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Your clarkii babies are much much darker than mine.... interesting.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Friday, April 5, 2013 3:26 PM
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How is the pair doing? Still going strong?
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion clarkii]
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:04 PM
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Sorry, I missed this question. Unfortunatly the female jumped from the tank earlier this year, around January. This was the last staw for me at the time and I wound back on some of the breeding efforts thereafter.
I did how ever replace the female with a new younger fish, the existing male transitioned to female and in the last two months has laid a few nests. These have all been eaten or I have missed the hatch.
Tonight I had a 95+ % hatch on day 10 counting the day they were laid as day one.
In the last two months I have transitioned my systems from artificial salt water to natural salt water, feeding more heavilly again and put more effort into maintenance.
The results so far are three nests from this pair.
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