Can someone help me breed my clownfish?

[Jeremy Lain]

Hello, I have two pairs of clownfish, a pair black and a pair maroon. I would like to breed them and have alot more clownfish in my reef tank from them. I don't want to setup a breeder tank.

What should I feed them? Feeding schedule? How long to get pregnant, and lay eggs? How long until the eggs are adult clown fish?

Is there other information you think I should know about clownfish breed, please post.

Here is a picture of the pair of black clownfish and one of the maroon clown fish the other maroon clownfish is bigger then that maroon clownfish but not much bigger.

 

[reef lover]

So your going to try to have a pair of marroons and black and whites in the same tank?? For breeding purposes?? Maroons are aggressive and territorial i think it will be a blood bath....
As for breeding are these juvis? Clowns live for upward of 20 years and dont reach sexual maturity until 5 or 6 will be awhile before they breed...

 

[Brew12]

So your going to try to have a pair of marroons and black and whites in the same tank?? For breeding purposes?? Maroons are aggressive and territorial i think it will be a blood bath....
As for breeding are these juvis? Clowns live for upward of 20 years and dont reach sexual maturity until 5 or 6 will be awhile before they breed...

+1
Completely agree. Unless you have a massive tank (much larger than my 187g) the odds of just getting both pairs to survive long term is not good.

It is also almost impossible to breed clowns in a reef tank. The flow and filtration needed for a reef tank are very different from what is needed to raise fry.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

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[davocean]

After the Maroons kill the Occys you will need a separate breeder setup to raise the fry. Raising them isn't particularly difficult but a separate system is needed.

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