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  Author Message RB52 Total Posts : 14 Scores: 0 Reward points : 105 Joined: 3/14/2013 Location: Atlanta, GA, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) How large should clownfish at five months of age? Saturday, January 4, 2014 9:59 AM (permalink) 0 I have several that i am raising, but I think they should be larger by now.  They range between 1" and 1 1/2".  Am I just being impatient?   #1 Mdoty Total Posts : 156 Scores: 1 Reward points : 1044 Joined: 7/18/2011 Location: Duluth, MN, US Status: offline MBI: 1555 Pnts MBI Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:35 AM (permalink) 0 Different species grow at different rates but at five months 1-1.5 inches sounds right to me.   #2 Fishtal Total Posts : 5467 Scores: 37 Reward points : 2908 Joined: 8/31/2006 Location: Waterford, MI, US Status: offline MBI: 585 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:24 PM (permalink) 0 I agree. http://www.fishtalpropagations.com/#!home/mainPage "Making captive breeding easier."   #3 RB52 Total Posts : 14 Scores: 0 Reward points : 105 Joined: 3/14/2013 Location: Atlanta, GA, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:47 PM (permalink) 0 Thanks, I forgot to mention they are ocellaris.   #4 Fishtal Total Posts : 5467 Scores: 37 Reward points : 2908 Joined: 8/31/2006 Location: Waterford, MI, US Status: offline MBI: 585 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Saturday, January 4, 2014 2:29 PM (permalink) 0 A. percula and Darwins tend to grow a bit slower than A. ocellaris, you're doing well to have them to 1.5" in 5 months. http://www.fishtalpropagations.com/#!home/mainPage "Making captive breeding easier."   #5 EasterEggs Total Posts : 1946 Scores: 19 Reward points : 735 Joined: 9/22/2011 Location: Saskatoon, SK, CA Status: offline MBI: 590 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:17 PM (permalink) 0 Originally Posted by Fishtal A. percula and Darwins tend to grow a bit slower than A. ocellaris, you're doing well to have them to 1.5" in 5 months.   Agreed.  Also, if they are 1.5" why do you still have them?  Haha! Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]   #6 Mr Cob Total Posts : 87 Scores: 0 Reward points : 127 Joined: 11/18/2012 Location: San Antonio, TX, US Status: offline MBI: 75 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Saturday, January 4, 2014 11:37 PM (permalink) 0 wish my fish would grow that fast! -Rob mrcobscorals.com   #7 RB52 Total Posts : 14 Scores: 0 Reward points : 105 Joined: 3/14/2013 Location: Atlanta, GA, US Status: offline MBI: 5 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Sunday, January 5, 2014 11:23 AM (permalink) 0 Very funny eastereggs.   But only a handful are 1 1/2", most are about 1".  I want to wait till I can get a few more before I start selling to the lfs.  Is there anything I can do to make sure they are growing as fast as they can? I do feed them a lot.   #8 mwilliams62 Total Posts : 42 Scores: 0 Reward points : 63 Joined: 4/10/2013 Location: Houston, TX, US Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:23 PM (permalink) 0 Don't know about your fish store but one that said he would buy mine would only pay me a $1.00 to a $1.50 I said no thanks and sold half of them on my local forum. Still have the other half of the batch because they weren't big enough to put up for sale yet.   #9 Mikester Total Posts : 46 Scores: 0 Reward points : 197 Joined: 5/26/2013 Location: Okinawa, Okinawa, JP Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Monday, February 17, 2014 7:40 AM (permalink) 0 I gave up my dream about having a profitable fish breeding hobby months ago.  But like every enjoyable hobby, plan to continue paying money.    #10 mPedersen Total Posts : 3450 Scores: 29 Reward points : 1376 Joined: 2/27/2009 Location: Duluth, MN, US Status: offline MBI: 4975 Pnts MBI Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:35 PM (permalink) 0 Originally Posted by mwilliams62 Don't know about your fish store but one that said he would buy mine would only pay me a $1.00 to a $1.50 I said no thanks and sold half of them on my local forum. Still have the other half of the batch because they weren't big enough to put up for sale yet.   WTF is it with local stores who feel they can just lowball anyone and everyone.  @#%#!!#@!%! They planning on retailing them at $3.00 to $4.50?  Because that's typical shop markups...       #11 JoeDigiorgio Total Posts : 278 Scores: -1 Reward points : 823 Joined: 2/6/2013 Location: Ft Lauderdale, FL, US Status: offline MBI: 145 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:15 PM (permalink) 0 I don't know about shops by you but typical markup is far more than double on livestock from my experience. Shops pay for the fish they sell, as well as all the fish that don't live, and then freight is factored in for the majority of orders. Designer clowns obviously command higher price at cost and therefore a proportionately smaller markup, but these fish typically come from within the States such as ORA, Proaquatix, Sustainable etc. Many times these orders experience significantly lesser losses due to fish health and handling so smaller markup percentage is feasible but as for standard wild type ocellaris, the $2 range at wholsale unfartunately sounds about right to me. One could argue that their captive bred fish are healthier and hardier than the respective imported fish but all the store owner sees is Nemo...and Nemo shouldn't cost him more than $2-3. Different story for designers and some other commercially produced species, but again, for the majority of common wild-type fish, most people don't realize just how dramatic the markup typically is.   #12 KathyL Total Posts : 2639 Scores: 13 Reward points : 1504 Joined: 6/6/2010 Location: St. Louis, MO, US Status: offline MBI: 1605 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Aquarium Societies of North America Re:How large should clownfish at five months of age? Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:15 AM (permalink) 0 The big boys have been having a price war, and now the shops won't pay more than the bottom anymore for common ocellaris, no matter how specatcular they are.  Nobody wins in the race to the bottom.  The market is screwed. JMHO. check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)   #13 Online Bookmarks Sharing: Facebook Digg Google del.icio.us StumbleUpon

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