Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris]

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Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Saturday, January 3, 2015 10:32 PM
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:  male/female pair
Size of Individuals:  male is 2.5" female3.5"
Age of Individuals:  unknown, They were a trade in at the LFS
Date added to Tank:12/17/2014 

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank:  10 gal.
Substrate Details:  none
Filtration Details:30 gal. sump with live rock, and protein skimmer. 
Water Changes:10% biweekly 
Water Temperature:  82 degrees f
Lighting: shop lights 
Lighting Cycle: 14hrs light 10hrs dark 
Other Tank Inhabitants: none

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  Rods food breeder blend, live black worms, pellets, and live brine shrimp
Feeding Schedule: 4 times a day 

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn: 01/02/2015
Spawn Time of Day:  4:10 pm
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: 
Courtship Details: the male cleaned the tile they spawned on for 2 days prior to spawn. 
Egg Size: 1.5mm
Egg Color: Bright Orange 
Egg Count:  300

Hatch Details
Hatch Date:  1 / 11 / 2015
Hatch Time of Day:  sometime after lights out.
# Days after Spawn:  9 days.
Larvae Description:    Larvae are clear with shiny eyes. Larvae are attracted to light.
Consecutive Hatch Dates:     


Larval Tank Details
Temperature:  82 degrees F
Size of Larval Tank:  10 gal
Substrate Details:  none
Other Tank Decor:  small piece of live rock.
Filtration Details:  none until day 14. Then a sponge filter will be added.
Lighting:  shop lights
Lighting Cycle:  24 Hrs
Water Changes: 

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types:  rotifers, TDO after meta
Feeding Schedule:  constant supply of rotifers. TDO 4 times a day after meta.

Metamorphosis/Settlement
Date of Settlement Start:  1-20-2015
Days after Hatch:  9 days
Date of Settlement End:  1-22-2015
Description of Fry:  The bodies are dark and the white stripe on the head is coming in.

Grow-Out Tank Details

Temperature:  82 F
Size of Grow-Out Tank:  20 gallons
Substrate Details:  none
Other Tank Decor:  1 piece of live rock.
Filtration Details:  30 gallon sump with live rock, and protien skimmer.
Lighting:  shop lights
Lighting Cycle:  14 hrs on, 10 off
Water Changes:  10% biweekly
Size at Transfer:  1/4 inch
Age at Transfer:  27 DPH

Grow-Out Feeding Details
Food Types:  TDO C1
Feeding Schedule:  3 to 4 times a day.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Sunday, January 4, 2015 12:17 PM

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Sunday, January 4, 2015 1:14 PM
sorry for the massive picture. Still working on putting pics on the journal.
 

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Monday, January 12, 2015 10:21 PM

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Monday, January 12, 2015 10:24 PM
Not sure whats going on with the huge pictures. But if you left click on the on the picture it will be shown in normal size.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:47 AM
Your images are way too big for a forum - 5312 x 2988!! Photobucket has an editor where you can resize your photo's - something around 1000 wide is more than enough.
 
Congrats on the hatch.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:47 PM
Thank you. And thanks for telling me how to fix the pictures . I couldn't think of anything else to do.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:38 PM

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:19 AM
Hey its cool to see you have the babies at 1.020 (from your report) is this what you keep the parents at as well? I keep all mine at 1.025, this could save a lot of salt in my fish room! How are the babies doing did they get to settlement?

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:18 PM
Hi Mike, I keep all my tanks at 1.020. So far everything is good. This is my first run with clowns. I have 9 that made it through settlement. I will posting some more pictures tonight hopefully.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:16 PM
TDO is awesome! These little guys are looking awesome.  15 DPH http://youtu.be/1QwdWKC2J9c

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:39 PM
Mike your babies can go lower.  The Inverts in your broodstock tanks mean they have to stay at 1.025.  You can grow out clowns at 1.016 if you want...

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Monday, February 2, 2015 10:13 PM
22 DPH . There were 10 not 9. There was a real little one hiding. It was about half the size of the others, It has seems to be catching up in size now. there color is looking good
http://youtu.be/UB91ccn_zgU 

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Monday, February 2, 2015 10:23 PM
Hi Matt, I have my reef tank at 1.020 also. All my inverts are doing good. My emerald crabs grew so big I had to trade them in because they were knocking my live rock and corals over.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Monday, March 2, 2015 7:34 PM
Here are my 50 DPH occy's with baby banggai's. http://youtu.be/r0nxss4t0o0

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 3, 2015 5:55 AM
Well done - I love the baby banggai's.
 
It looks like you got your photo's sorted as well

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6:20 PM
Thanks for all your help Shane. I put the banggai's in with the occy's and they started eating TDO with no issues. It was pretty challenging to get them to eat pellets when they were in a separate tank. I was happy to see the banggai's and clowns are getting a long well

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Saturday, March 14, 2015 11:04 PM
Here they are 63 DPH https://youtu.be/37C_jbW8Hhc

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 7:48 PM
Over the last week my baby occy's have become very timid. Is this normal? All my grown clowns do not act scared at all.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 8:15 PM
Over the last week my baby occy's have become very timid. Is this normal? All my grown clowns do not act scared at all.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 8:23 PM
The Banggai going after the TDO is pretty impressive.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:53 PM
Putting the banggai's in with the occy's made the transfer to TDO easy. I have another round of banngii's on the way with no occy's to teach them. I will post under the banggai's my results.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Saturday, March 21, 2015 7:35 AM
What are the water parameters ? Light schedule change?
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:42 AM
Water parameters are great. I am doing a15% water change a week. And the light schedule is 14hrs on and 10hrs off.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:26 AM
Are the babies getting a lot of BBS?  The timidity might be a lower level of shock from the BBS.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:45 AM
No BBS, I took it away as soon as I got them to eat the TDO. At first BBS is all they would eat. The problem I had was, I would return home from work and they would be huge die offs and they seemed to stop growing. Once switched to TDO I never lost another fish. They have been off BBS for about a month now.

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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:01 PM
Just guessing but if they got BBS every day I think it could have affected them, I'd just keep on growing them out . Do you have some similar sized outgoing youngsters?  To train them?
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Monday, March 23, 2015 8:40 PM
Baby Occy's 71 DPH.


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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Monday, March 23, 2015 8:54 PM
71 DPH


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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:59 AM
Looking beautiful now.
 
I have read of BBS fed exclusively having cases of extreme shock dieoffs is why I asked.
 
Lets hear it for TDO!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Tuesday, March 24, 2015 12:43 PM
The banggai's are the only ones I had feed BBS. The occy's never had BBS. Sorry for any confusion. I should have been a little clearer. The babies are looking great though. This has been a cool experience for my kids and I.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Amphiprion Ocellaris] - Wednesday, March 25, 2015 8:30 AM
I am sure that it was a great show for the family !  Enjoy !  You deserve it. How old are your kids?
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