help with clown breeding

[jweed9379]

This morning when i fed the tank before work i noticed that my two clowns appeared to be stuck together towards their anal fins...were the breeding? Ive never seen them do this before and i am unsure of what they were doing

 

[Trex]

Doesn't sound like any breeding I have ever seen.

From a couple years ago, my old pair of pink skunks spawning, this is what it normally looks like;

[video=youtube;O3E7J-3VcsU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3E7J-3VcsU&list=UUYRzzmgl7cTBlCSei1ZApCw[/video]

 

[jweed9379]

I wander what they were doing because when my female moves the male was pulled with her lol

 

[jweed9379]

Now you say they were spawning...is that when they are breeding?

 

[Trex]

In simple explanation.... Breeding is reproduction. Spawning (( in reference to clownfish )), is when the female deposits the eggs on a surface, and the male comes by and fertilizes said eggs. Spawning is a specific term for aquatic breeding --- for lack of a better term.

 

[jweed9379]

Ok so then after the male fertilizes them he moves them to the nem?

 

[Trex]

The eggs will stay on the hard surface until they hatch, they fry will then be on their own. To be able to raise them, they would need to be moved to a separate tank, and specialty food would need to be raised to feed to the fry.