Breeding Journal, Species: Amphiprion Ocellaris

General
Species:  A. Ocellaris
Social Structure:  Spawning Pair
Size of Individuals:  Female - 2" : Male 1-1/2"
Age of Individuals:  Unknown, in my care 5+ years
Date added to Tank:  July 2011

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank:  60G
Substrate Details: Sand                
Filtration Details:  Algae Turf Scrubber
Water Changes:  25% annually
Water Temperature:  77f
Lighting:  DIY 24x 3w LEDs
Lighting Cycle:  1pm - 11pm / 10hrs
Other Tank Inhabitants:  Yellow watchman goby, diamond goby, black leopard wrasse, multicolor angel

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  Rod's Food, Mysis, Spectrum Pellets
Feeding Schedule:  2x daily

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn:  Sometime in 2009, spawns for 2013 on 2/7/13, 2/22/13, 3/8/13, 3/21/13, 4/10/13, 4/27/13    
Spawn Time of Day:  Late afternoon / early evening
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: Too many to list, goes back 4 years
Courtship Details:  Heavy cleaning of area where eggs will be laid
Egg Size:  2-3mm
Egg Color:  Orange first, then darkening
Egg Count:  100+

Hatch Details
Hatch Date:  2/18/13
Hatch Time of Day:  12am, 1 hour after lights out
# Days after Spawn:  11 days
Larvae Description: Tiny and active
Consecutive Hatch Dates: Too many to list, I don't raise the majority of them.      


Larval Tank Details
Temperature:  78f
Size of Larval Tank: 10G               
Substrate Details:  Barebottom
Other Tank Decor:  none
Filtration Details:  sponge filter
Lighting:  T5HO
Lighting Cycle: 24hr first 2 days post hatch, 18hr after that.                
Water Changes:  25% every 2 days

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types:  Rotifers
Feeding Schedule:  Constant

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Pair of clownfish about the lay eggs on 2/7/13

 
After laying eggs

 
Hatching right at midnight on 2/18/13

 
Fry in 10G tank filled with rotifers

2-1/2 days old. Only lost 5 babies so far. Not much to see other than a tank full of rotifers that I just dumped in and some bigger white specs eating them.
 

Pair laid another big batch tonight. 15 days from their last batch, which is their normal schedule. Babies are at day 4 and I haven't lost any in 2 days. I believe I caught around 30 from the hatch and have around 25 left.
 
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1 week old fry update
 

15 Day update, lost 1 that didn't make it through meta, the rest are looking good.

 
And day 1 for the 2nd batch that hatched yesterday.

24 Days old today and still going strong.
 

Batch 3 hatched last night.. biggest collection ever. This time I siphoned them out of the tank with a hose into a 29G tank sitting next to the display tank. Normally I would just use a turkey baster to suck out a few. 2nd batch I attempted to pull the rock out that had the eggs on them but I really messed that up somehow and only got 11 babies to survive. Most of the eggs just turned white on the last day and didn't hatch (due to me not knowing what I was doing). Last night I knew they were going to hatch so I waited 1 hour after lights out and then put a light over the tank and they exploded (they seemed to all hatch when I turned the light on). I had never seen so many babies at once but I caught a large majority of them as the video shows.
 

Batch #3 - Day 3

 
Batch #1 - Day 31

 

 

Seeing posts like these gives me hope.  All my fry from my first attempt died and from the second attempt I have one or two alive still.  I'll figure it out one day.

What are you feeding them the first week? I order a rotifer culture and RGFeast bottle from ReedMariculture, along with OTO dry food. I put in a ton of rotifers as soon as the babies hit the tank. Since they can't see or swim well at first I want so many rotifers swimming around they can't move an inch without bumping/eating a dozen. I grow the rotifers in 2 5G buckets and remove/replace 25% of the water each day, filtering the rotifers I take out in a paper coffee filter. I then dip the coffee filter into the clown tank to rinse them off. I add 3 drops of RGFeast into the clown tank daily, not much. I put 8ml of RGFeast in each 5G bucket each day to feed the rotifer cultures. After a week of rotifers I start adding OTO-A 'powder'. By the second week I stop feeding rotifers all together and only feed OTO. By week 3 I move up to OTO-B1, and progress to larger sizes as they get the ability to eat them. I ordered a complete set of OTO food but found out you only need A/B1&2/C1, after that you can switch to Spectrum Small Fish pellets.
 
My very first attempt I collected half a dozen and tried to raise them on dry food alone, none of them made it to day 7 trying that method. Since then I have stuck to the method above and have had high success (~90%) and little loss, and almost all the loss happens before they hit the Meta phase.