Ok so my black clowns have been hanging for a couple years in my 14g biocube. Added a new zoa this summer and been noticing they have been all around it and now they are sleeping on it, hanging and playing like it’s an anemone. Are they just clowning around, having babies, random?
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Clowns?
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Clowns are odd indeed...
-My suggestion "IF" you want to see if they are indeed BREEDING versus just being bonded...
Add a small flower pot to that area they like. "IF" they hang out in the pot, female eats first, and a few other things you have a BONDED PAIR.
Laying eggs would be next and THAT aspect would require a certain number of factors to all fall into place.
Enough food, consistent light schedule, higher temperatures, stress free from other fish that may snack on their eggs....
Once they lay eggs and are a proven pair they are considered BREEDING PAIR!
You do NOT need to do anything special if you have no intent to ever try raising them. They will care for the eggs and will become snacks for other creature sin the tank on hatchnight or a little extra phosphates in your filter socks.
If you DO... want to try and collect and raise them. Hit me up!
Its a fun and challenging process.
-My suggestion "IF" you want to see if they are indeed BREEDING versus just being bonded...
Add a small flower pot to that area they like. "IF" they hang out in the pot, female eats first, and a few other things you have a BONDED PAIR.
Laying eggs would be next and THAT aspect would require a certain number of factors to all fall into place.
Enough food, consistent light schedule, higher temperatures, stress free from other fish that may snack on their eggs....
Once they lay eggs and are a proven pair they are considered BREEDING PAIR!
You do NOT need to do anything special if you have no intent to ever try raising them. They will care for the eggs and will become snacks for other creature sin the tank on hatchnight or a little extra phosphates in your filter socks.
If you DO... want to try and collect and raise them. Hit me up!
Its a fun and challenging process.
Best to talk to eric. All I can say is the babies are not like what you see in finding nemo. They are tiny little things that feed on even tinier things that you cannot see with the naked eye. I'm sure there have been lots of advances since I bred my clowns but I started with live phytobacteria...(a 5 gallon bucket) this fed the live rotifers (5 gallon bucket) and you used a special sieve to catch the rotifers to feed the baby clowns in (another bucket/tank) and then if you are really nuts about it - you'll have multiple grow out tanks. I had a blast doing it and donated quite a few of my babies to meetings but that's long since past and I am retired....until my clowns listen to some barry manilow or something...
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