The Lightning Project

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

Browsing Posts tagged Spawn #14

Today (11-16-2013), Spawn #17 was laid.  Spawn #14 is clearly showing both forms again (roughly 50/50 split of White Stripe and Lightning Offspring) and Spawn #15 has just completed metamorphosis.

Back on track it would seem…Spawn #14 appears to have completed metamorphosis.  Despite good care, and seemingly good success, I can’t estimate more than 25-30 offspring. Spawn #15 didn’t hatch as planned…only 2 babies the first night.  Small hatch the next night, and possibly more the following night.  Hard to tell how many larvae there […]

Per my last post, the start of the week saw the spawning of the 15th batch, although I wasn’t around to see it.  So I’m having to guess on the spawn date.  I *thought* about pulling the eggs on Saturday night; this would have been 6 days (144 hours) post spawn, had they been laid […]

Was gone Monday and Tuesday…came back Tuesday night and discovered a BIG nest of Lighting Maroon Clownfish eggs…so we now have Spawn #15.  Was it laid on 10/28/2013, or 10/29/2013?  Not sure. Spawn #14 is doing well, no shortage of rotifers this time, lots of silver bellies.  I’m going to estimate that we had a […]

Tonight is the anticipated hatch night for spawn #14.  It’s a smaller clutch…probably only a few hundred eggs to hatch, and it might have partially hatched earlier in the day or even last night.  I set them up in the 10 gallon tank with blacked out sides, using 50% new water and 50% broodstock water. […]

So I get yet another chance.  The change in photoperiod set the fish off for a few weeks, but last Friday, October 18th, the 14th spawn was discovered. An update on Spawn #13 – turns out I was wrong – once again, for the third time this year, there is a LONE survivor. And once […]