The Lightning Project

The ongoing saga of the PNG Lightning Maroon Clownfish breeding project.

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Just a short note, tonight Spawn #24 was pulled for hatching.  I set it up with 100% new water, at 1.025, with aeration provided by a limewood airstone and a hatching escape route set up at the top of the tile.  The bottom of the tile is held in position by another tile lying on […]

I did the day count, and by my estimate the night of the 15th, going into the 16th, was 6+ full days post spawn on Spawn #21. Looking at the nest, it seemed they were ready, and it also seemed that at least some were missing already (perhaps they hatched and were consumed?) I pulled […]

So I pulled spawn #13 tonight…1 AM on 9-30-2013….since #13 was spawned on 9/24/2013, I really should have pulled on the night of 9/30/2013…which would be Monday night, not the wee-early morning hours of Monday as I type this. What will this do?  Well, my other scatterbrained move was to once again apply a hydrogen […]

Despite all the crazy effort last night to prep for a hatch on spawn #12, it’s now 10:20 AM and nothing has hatched.  We are definitely past 144 hours post spawn…based on hatch times from prior clutches they should have hatched, but the 6+ day incubation time always seems short.  So hopefully I didn’t kill […]

Every bit of data I have says “8 days to hatch”. I went back and looked…every spawn I tracked, 8 days. Eg. if a spawn occured on the evening of the 1st, it will hatch after lights out on the night of the 9th. Everything suggests that. So it’s an incredibly tense evening after MISSING […]

So this amounts to a chronological retelling of the story to date, this time with photos, starting  a couple weeks back now.  Perhaps not in as much detail as my minute-by-minute updates, but a good overview of the run to date. June 21st, 2012 The ongoing health problems with the Lightning Maroon remained, and the […]