Bluespotjawfish

All sold

I have a broken ankle, so can't help on the transport, but I am willing to ship.

Added another shot to the first post. The smallest one has the most orange on the fins. There is one with black fins, and the other two have black/orange fins. More black develops with age.

I have four 6-1/2 month old Platinum Clownfish. Asking just $50 each. Since I broke my ankle I need to take down the tank.

I'm located in San Antonio.

Lorraine

210-475-3934

It was very nice to meet you. Glad to see he settled in so quickly for you.

I wouldn't chance it. That is very small.

Glad to see he settled in so quickly!

I could use some stuff too.

Just saw you only have a 30g tank, so the G2 might be more than you need.

I have a G2 with the 3500 Sedra I would love to trade up. Could even offer a bit of $$ for the upgrade.

Worked with firefox. Thx.

It won't let me load a pic into the album. "Action Failed" What am I doing wrong?

The oldest clutch at 13-1/2 weeks old

A few updated videos

Combined Clutch 7 to 9 weeks old

You are welcome.

Yip, for the most part they hang in or around the clay pots, a few like the corners, and a few have taken to the candy cane coral that is currently sharing their tank. Some of the video was shot from inside the tank, and so they are huddled together a bit more than usual in those. The pots are just like what you get at home depot for planting plants in. The outside bast of the pots in with the younger clutch have ceramic paint on them.

The 12 week old clutch

The combined younger clutch 6-8 weeks

I'm just off of Thousand Oaks near McAllister park. Sometimes there are defects, and in the wild these fish do not survive. It is my responsibility as a breeder to cull these fish. It's a tough thing to do.

Hopefully I can get some more pics this weekend. Just got a new camera too! Meanwhile, major deadlines at work...

MasonHoff, here is a video from last week. I added an anemone to their tank. As you can tell they loved it, but after a few days I decided I didn't want to risk it polluting the tank and put it in the display tank with better lighting instead. I've taken more video since then, but technical difficulties and deadlines have prevented me from uploading them.

You are welcome. Yip, even when I don't feel like doing it I have to do the chore list. And the house sometimes looks like a mine field. Most the time it is enjoyable though and not a chore.

The older two hatches are doing well but I lost many of the little ones during meta, only about 30 left. One of my rotifer cultures crashed a few days ago, maybe the issue is related.

Rotifers populate in the fry tank and I split the remaining culture. At day 5 they are introduced to the nhbbs as well. I took more video of all three hatches, but haven't had a chance to post them. You can almost see the littlest ones

I agree, once the colony is large it is very hard to get the right flow circulating through it. And RTN is fast! But most the time you can successfully get a good frag from it before it goes. And, then in no time it will be big again.

Thank you ACampbell.

For the record, I have not made a dime from any sale, have no list going for a sale, and haven't decided how I will sell. I have considered investing in sponsorships down the road. However, 3 hatches to the age of 6 weeks, 2 weeks, and 3 days in no way makes me a commercial breeder. How ridiculous is that. I have on the other hand spent every day and cancelled all my summer trips to take care of these fish and invested the money necessary to properly care and feed them, like any good hobbist would. I provided courtesy replies to PMs for those who asked for prices.

Hydro, I'm not here to argue with you, the reason I started it is as I previously stated. I do try and spend time explaining what I do to raise these guys in my threads, when someone bothers to ask me about it. But it appears all people are really interested in is prices. I even opened my home up to you to come see the setups. If you really wanted to learn how it is done, that is what you need to see. That is how I learned (by seeing how someone else was doing it) and then as teg said, I also did a lot of research that is already available online. This is my first attempt at breeding, so don't really consider myself qualified to teach what I am doing to anyone. And when you have 3 batches of fry and a 150g tank and work full time, not a lot of time for documenting the tedius details that is already available in a multitued of places unless you are just in a mood to chatter or share. The video happened to be the best one I have been able to get and I wanted to share it with anyone who would appreciate the hard work that goes into raising these guys. Had comments requested more information, I would have added what people were interested in.

Some of the basics:

I have a contraption that I call the "baby catcher". It automatically collects not only my fry, but also mysid and cleaner shrimp hatches. However, I supplement this with the cup and flashlight method. Hatch is typically on day 9, but I start on day 7 or 8. Turn off the return pump, and most of the internal pumps (sometimes I leave my vortech on low or battery mode until I see babies). I have 1 and 5 gallon white buckets that I use to hold the fry. When complete I use the cup again to transfer fish and about 3 gallons of the water into the 10 gallon that has a small dependable heater, air stone (not set too high), and low watt light (on 24/7). I add rotifers and rotigrow plus so that the water is slightly green. I also monitor pH closely at this stage and add buffer as needed. Over the next few days, I reduce the salinity to about 1.018-1.020 and add rotifers as needed morning and night. At about day 5 I start adding nhbbs that I feed 3-6 times a day along with the rotifers. At about 2 wks I introduce Otimine A, and collect the next hatch. In between all of this is twice daily WC, cleaning the bottoms of the tank/glass, and researching ways to improve what I do.

The lineage is ORA > Donis Reef > me

The coolest thing is the parents were born on my birthday August 18, 2008 and moved with me to Texas from Utah along with my Bluespot Pair! And, even if they never had babies, they are two of the coolest fish I have.

Please note that this thread is not a FS thread. The intent of this thread is to share my experience rearing of these beautiful fish. When I bought this pair I never dreamed that I would have such an experience, yet alone be successful if I tried. This is truly amazing to me. Should have more to share soon. My second hatch is getting their 2nd stripe and the platinums are starting to become white. They change every day at this stage.

Once the hatches are older, if there are any with defects they would be culled. The normal/misbar ones would be sold either individually or in bulk groups depending on availability.