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Reefing Without Coral
Breeding Maroon Clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus)
Breeding Premnas biaculeatus commonly known as the maroon clownfish is relatively easy. From my experience, the success rates with all clownfish is very high. I started off with a standard 29 gallon, 3 damsels and a maroon clownfish. After 3 months, I decided to try and pair the maroon with a smaller one. The existing larger maroon that I had for 3 months was about 5 inches, the smaller one was about 3 inches. Instantly the pair took together. After 2 months, the pair started to clean a nesting spot. After about 3 months of the pair being formed, I saw the first batch off eggs. I let this batch go and rushed to set up a breeding system and to remove the damsels to start to raise the eggs.
Breeding System
1 20 Gallon aquarium
7 10 Gallon aquariums with air stones
2 5 Gallon buckets for growing rotifers
2 4 Gallon buckets for growing live brine
As the eggs were in a pot, which is the best way to move eggs from one aquarium to the other. The pot must be completely covered with water the entire time and water parameters from the tank the eggs are going into must be extremely close to the tank were originally in to prevent damage to the eggs.
You can also choose to leave the eggs in the main tank and let them hatch, then siphon them out, or catch them with a cup which I would not recommend because the parents will more than often eat the babies.
I used the 10 gallon aquariums for raising the babies, sometimes when they got larger I would move them to the 20 gallon to not risk them fighting over space.
After the eggs hatched, I fed rotifers and live baby brine for the first 4 days, starting day 5 extremely small pieces of frozen brine and mysis were mixed in. As of day 7 they were eating frozen brine and mysis in very small pieces. After 2 weeks they were eating larger pieces, but they were still very small, after a month they were tearing apart cubes.
Water changes were 10% of the tanks water daily and all tanks besides the main were bare bottom.
Breeding and caring for clownfish is not easy at all, there is a lot of work involved, I raised two batches of maroon clowns to selling stage which was about an inch and a half, after that it I realized how much time and effort it takes. Please make sure you know what your getting into.
Sorry I cannot provide pictures as the ones that were taken were lost when my other pc died.
Any and all questions are welcome,
Maroony
Breeding Premnas biaculeatus commonly known as the maroon clownfish is relatively easy. From my experience, the success rates with all clownfish is very high. I started off with a standard 29 gallon, 3 damsels and a maroon clownfish. After 3 months, I decided to try and pair the maroon with a smaller one. The existing larger maroon that I had for 3 months was about 5 inches, the smaller one was about 3 inches. Instantly the pair took together. After 2 months, the pair started to clean a nesting spot. After about 3 months of the pair being formed, I saw the first batch off eggs. I let this batch go and rushed to set up a breeding system and to remove the damsels to start to raise the eggs.
Breeding System
1 20 Gallon aquarium
7 10 Gallon aquariums with air stones
2 5 Gallon buckets for growing rotifers
2 4 Gallon buckets for growing live brine
As the eggs were in a pot, which is the best way to move eggs from one aquarium to the other. The pot must be completely covered with water the entire time and water parameters from the tank the eggs are going into must be extremely close to the tank were originally in to prevent damage to the eggs.
You can also choose to leave the eggs in the main tank and let them hatch, then siphon them out, or catch them with a cup which I would not recommend because the parents will more than often eat the babies.
I used the 10 gallon aquariums for raising the babies, sometimes when they got larger I would move them to the 20 gallon to not risk them fighting over space.
After the eggs hatched, I fed rotifers and live baby brine for the first 4 days, starting day 5 extremely small pieces of frozen brine and mysis were mixed in. As of day 7 they were eating frozen brine and mysis in very small pieces. After 2 weeks they were eating larger pieces, but they were still very small, after a month they were tearing apart cubes.
Water changes were 10% of the tanks water daily and all tanks besides the main were bare bottom.
Breeding and caring for clownfish is not easy at all, there is a lot of work involved, I raised two batches of maroon clowns to selling stage which was about an inch and a half, after that it I realized how much time and effort it takes. Please make sure you know what your getting into.
Sorry I cannot provide pictures as the ones that were taken were lost when my other pc died.
Any and all questions are welcome,
Maroony
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