Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion Ocellaris

General
Species:  Amphiprion Ocellaris
Social Structure:  Mated Pair
Size of Individuals:  Female approx 3"; Male approx 2.5"
Age of Individuals:  Unknown
Date added to Tank:  During the second half of March 2012, exact date unknown.

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank:  Refugium Section of my sump, 4 gallons roughly.
Substrate Details:  None
Filtration Details:  Chemipure Elite, Bubble Magus NAC 3.5 Skimmer, filter floss, Quietone 4000 return.
Water Changes:  20% Weekly
Water Temperature:  78.6 F
Lighting:  250w HQI 20K, with PC supp, the guys live in my fuge, the get a PC lamp.
Lighting Cycle:  14 Hours light, PC fuge lighting.
Other Tank Inhabitants:  Astrea Snail

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  Formula 2 pellets, and NewLife Spectrum Thera A Pellets
Feeding Schedule:  4 times a day.  Once right after lights on, then about an hour later.  Then usually after I get home from work, and about an hour before lights out.

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn:  04/16/12
Spawn Time of Day:  Latest approx 9 P.M.
Dates of Consecutive Spawns:  04/16/12, 04/26/12, latest  6/6/12 
Courtship Details:  Unknown
Egg Size:  2-4 mm
Egg Color:  Orange
Egg Count:  250 approx.

Hatch Details
Hatch Date:   the latest is 6/14/2012
Hatch Time of Day:  8:00 P.M.
# Days after Spawn:  7
Larvae Description:   Typical larvae 2-3 mm
Consecutive Hatch Dates:    Unknown, as I'm only working on the current spawn of 6/6/2012.


Larval Tank Details
Temperature:  79.9 F
Size of Larval Tank:  10g
Substrate Details:  Bare
Other Tank Decor:  Fake anemone
Filtration Details:  Sponge filter rated for 40 gallons
Lighting:  PC bulb
Lighting Cycle:  12 hours
Water Changes:  2 gallons every other week.

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types:  Rotifers enriched with RotiGrow Complete, water tinted with RotiGreen Nanno.
Feeding Schedule:  As needed to keep density up

Metamorphosis/Settlement
Date of Settlement Start:  06/20/12
Days after Hatch:   6 days after hatch when the first bunch started.
Date of Settlement End:  Approx 6/22/2012
Description of Fry:  Small, just showing headstripe and "bobble" swimming.  Getting orange color, really showing color probably due to feeding TDO B1.

Grow-Out Tank Details
Temperature:  79 F
Size of Grow-Out Tank:  40 gallon breeder
Substrate Details:  Sugar fine Oolitic sand.
Other Tank Decor:  Live rock currently
Filtration Details:  20L sump, Vertex IN 100 skimmer, fuge with about 3" sandbed.
Lighting:  Current USA Sundial 36" Fixture, 4 bulb T5HO.
Lighting Cycle:  12 hours
Water Changes:  5% once per week.
Size at Transfer:  3/4 of an inch. 
Age at Transfer:  60 DPS 

Grow-Out Feeding Details
Food Types:  TDO B1 and B2
Feeding Schedule:  Morning and evening.

Additional Information

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Pic of the happy couple in the sump:

 
Latest Spawn:

Ocellaris fry 1 DPH:
 

 
These guys hatched around the tail-end of May they are part of the group that I lost all but 3 of. 

As some of you know from my other thread, had some trouble keeping fry alive past day 3, of the pic above only 4 remain, but pugnacious little buggers.  Of my most recent hatch as of 06/14/2012, I count around 70, had a slight mishap transferring the tile to hatch tank, oops, and several have started meta at 6 DPH, been feeding them enriched rots with RG Complete, and tinting water with RG Nanno.  Seems early for Meta, but here is a quick pic from this morning.
 

Wow, that is quick!  I have some Darwins same age as yours and I'm not seeing any signs of meta yet, nor any stripes.  Maybe Darwins are slower though...my first clowns.

Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]

These are the fastest out of my other attempts.  Of my lone occy/perc cross survivor, it took months just to show it's second stripe.
 
Here is a quick YouTube Vid of all my fry, you can see 2 of the 4 survivors of the hatch before nipping at each other.  I got a net breeder I'll put in tonight after work to help curb this:
 

So out of the 70, it looks like I lost about 10, but they never really seemed to go through meta, looked like fry the whole time.  The rest are doing really well, most have the start of their second stripes, and I can visibly see them eating TDO A and B1.

So here are the fry from the 6/6/12 hatch.  They are now about 23 DPH.  Yesterday I moved them into another tank with their 3, week older, siblings to free up a tank for my ocellaris/percula clutch that should hatch by Wednesday or Thursday.   I also moved their larger sponge filter into the tank as to add extra filtration and keep any bacteria alive.
 

Is that a fake anemone?

Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]

It is a fake anemone!  Several seem to like it during the day, but when when I come down in the morning, they're always asleep in the top corners of the tank.

And here were are, over 60 DPH!  If you look in the first pic, you'll see my occy/perc hybrid, the product of my very first attempt some 5 months ago.  It for sure is a slow grower, as several of the pure ocellaris clowns are as big, or bigger.  You can also see the reflection of the 40b I've been cycling to move them all into.  I ended up splitting the hatch into 2 10g tanks for now as they're getting quite large.
 

 

 

And we made it!  60 DPS!!  Started moving them over to the 40b growout.  Have about 20 in ther so far.