Clownfish Started Showing Spawning Behaviour :)

[xxBarneyxx]

Last night I was sitting looking at the tank when I noticed that our two common clowns (one B&W) where swimming very closely together and doing their "wiggle dance". At first I thought it was just a dominance thing as I have seen clowns do this before to act submissively. However after watching a bit longer I noticed that they had cleared a large patch of LR right behind the torch that the female hosts and they where both very busy cleaning it off in between "shaking their thing" at each other. I have noticed in the last few months that the male has become a lot bigger and is pretty much the same size as the female now but they are still both pretty small so didnt expect any spawning behaviour for quite awhile.

I'am about to completely strip down the tank they are in at the moment to rebuild the scape so if they do actually spawn I wont be able to do much with it. However once I'm all up and running again hopefully they will start spawning more regularly so I can have a go at raising the fry (I have always wanted to breed marine fish but never really set out to do it properly). I do have phyto, rotifer and pod cultures going already so hopefully the feeding wont be too difficult (though I will have to kick the culturing up a level as from nemo's breeding diary they seem to eat loads!)


Anyway there was no real point to this post other than to share the news

 

[seffieuk]

Oh congratulations you must have been so pleased to see that as you had worried about their size hadn't you - woo hoo

 

[-Nemo-]

yay!

If you're worried about seeing the eggs, I would just put in a clay pot for them, it's not too aesthetically pleasing, but the clowns take to it right away as they like to lay their eggs in a "cave". They do eat loads!!! Have a gallon or two of rotifers (that you won't miss) for them when you decide to raise them or if you're on the low end, just keep the density up by only giving the larvae a few gallons of water.

A black and orange one... What will their children look like!

Welcome to the club!

 

[ben1987]

Congrats mate, mine show signs when i feed really regular! they were baught as a breeding pair aswel, but i have not been that lucky yet

how many times a day do you feed? and nemo if shes reading?

i had a pair like yours before my wipe out - i believe that you get a mix of orange and B&W ones and a few with some strange colouration

 

[-Nemo-]

At the time being, I feed three times a day, mix between mysis + brine shrimp plus, flake food enriched with astaxanthin, formula 2, and sometimes krill (although they're not a big fan of it). Mine started when I was only feeding them once, however, I upped the feeding since to promote healthy larvae.

 

[milkton]

congrats! please share the pictures!!