Hi! Thinking about trying out some clownfish breeding. Anyone have any experience with it? Any tips? I’m thinking of either some frostbites or some black storms.
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I’ve done it. Read as much as you can. Reefnutrition TDO is a great food choice and vendor for rotifers. Mercer Montana is great for sieves. I found keeping a rotifer culture hard so I just timed arrival from reefnutrition with day0 of the fry. If you go with TDO they sell it in different grades from really fine (A) to chunkier pieces. There is also a pulverizing tool out there where you can refine the cheaper chunkier TDO down but achieving the fineness of A is hard.
I tried the moonlight trap with little success. The best success I had was when I moved my clowns out of my reef, plumbed them into their own isolated 10g (attached to the reef) and then siphoned the fry straight out of the water column (replenishing water as needed). On hatch night- get it as dark as possible and only use your phone as “the moon”. You’ll have more fry release if there isn’t ambient light.
It is quite a lot to keep up and you’ll need a couple of separate systems, at least one for fry and another for older clutches that have gone thru metamorphosis.
It’s a laborious and rewarding part of the hobby. With designer clowns you’ll see all the different variants that make them who they are; you won’t just get a black storm from a black storm pair.
