Universally set up my two tanks to breed clowns

[saltwater snoopy]

I was reading and it said that they were most likely to breed as conditions are perfect and they're comfortable ie low stress I don't have any enemies in my tank and was wondering if anybody wanted to help me out with that I would be willing to share my juvenile clowns if I'm successful. i have a 40+ setup w fuge 29g and a 100g with only live rock an sand a one coral. the clown are a mated pair of DaVinci clowns

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[jestep]

There's several members that have successfully bred them. You might search the forums and see if they had any threads on it. I can't remember off the top of my head who was doing it though.

I think food cultures are absolutely necessary for any real chance of survival. In my experience with captive breeding fish in general, raising the fry with the parents is usually an exercise in futility.

[mFrame]

Getting clowns to pair up, host, and start laying eggs isn't difficult. I've had multiple pairs over the years in a variety of tanks. The challenges come down to:

• have a "paired" set of clowns, whether you acquire them or they pair up in your tank. It's pretty easy to tell when they're paired
• once they've paired they must be mature enough to lay. How do you know they're mature enough? Well, usually when they start laying.
• part of what makes them lay is having a home like an anemone, a designated spot in the tank that they stay in and guard. If your clowns are protective of their anemone and nip at you when you put your hand in the tank, there's a great chance they're mature and ready to lay (if they're not already laying)

I've had two pair that started laying eggs that I hadn't even noticed. Their guarded behavior and my wife's keen eyes after I was complaining about being bitten was all it took for her to say, "No wonder they bit you, they have eggs they're protecting."

Once you're past all those parts, congratulations, you'll get eggs ever two weeks. They take about a week to hatch. Guess what? That was the easy part. Actually getting the eggs as they hatch or right before they hatch is the hard part. In five years I've never seen one hatch, though I can't say I've specifically set out to. My assumption is that they hatch and are immediately eaten, either by tank mates or the parents.

IF you can get the clowns to lay their eggs on a tile or in a small flowerpot, etc., then you can time it and remove the eggs the night they're do to hatch. If you know when they're laid it's easily to calculate, I believe they hatch the 7th night. Put the eggs in a smaller, easier to manage tank. When they hatch they will swim to the nearest light source (seeking the moon), so you can put a lamp over the tank and be ready to catch them. After that you'll need to read up on where to keep them, what to feed them, etc. Once they hit about 1/8" I think you're safe to reintroduce them to mom and dad, or keep them in their own dedicated tank.

[saltwater snoopy]

cool they where close in my 40+gal that tank was more seasoned but i moved them to a bigger tank there doing good they pick a spot and started to fan an clean but its set them back but in time they should be back on track ; i need to put small clay pot in near there spot an get a good size RBTA i had been reading an they where getting ready in my 40 . now the 40 is ready for the fry but my big tank needs a bit more work but all are well, thanks ill get the pot save for the bta, thank you for info i forgot about the little pot to move eggs : )

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[saltwater snoopy]

i got a great start an an awesome pair f/ about 3" + m/ about 2" an there peas in a pod lol always hungry so i have to feed slow or half the food will be on the sand, im really happy with them good looking pair : ))

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