The Lightning Project

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

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…is that life has a way of giving you a nice smack in the face, aka a “reality check”.  The old phrase “don’t count your [clownfish] before they hatch”  seems to apply here. I alluded to it at the end of my last post.  Yes, the “Morse Code” Maroon is having issues…it showed signs almost […]

So with this latest shipment of PNG Maroons, I now have the following inventory: 1 PNG Lightning Maroon Clownfish, sex indeterminant 1 PNG Morse Code Maroon Clown, sex indeterminant 4 PNG Maroon Clownfish, your typical White Stripe variety, all still at sizes where they should be male or “juvenile”. 1 “Labrador” Maroon Clownfish, a massive […]

So, after last night’s update, I went downstairs and gave the fish a closer look and that’s when I saw something I really didn’t like. The female’s right eye was distended and had a big black splotch on it. There was not a spot of Cryptocaryon on her, which was the “moment” I had been […]

So still playing catchup on the Lightning Maroon Story…there’s already so much “behind the scenes” and “prequel” type content…I doubt I’ll ever get it all out there.  I did manage the first installment fairly quickly.  It’s time to hit the second installment of the “recap”, the acclimation of the Maroons to their new home. We […]

So, in a situation like this, I think it is INACTION that generally “seals the deal” as it were.  Leave a fish that’s lost its desire to swim lying on the bottom wedged under the live rock and that fish will be somewhere, dead, by morning.  That’s my general prognosis.  Which is why inaction is […]

Taking a break from work..wow…already burned out and again, OT is in the future tonight!  But, I can take 10 minutes away to update you all on the status of the Maroons… This morning, I was dealt another disheartening turn of events.  I went down before starting my workday and took a look.  I think […]

I sent this one out to the experts, but I’m withholding my own thoughts.  This is the PNG Saddleback I mentioned earlier when I talked about Formalin dipping “replaceable” fish before going with the Maroons.  This Saddleback has been in hyposalinity (1.010) and has had a formalin dip daily for the last 3 days.  The […]

So back on March 31st, in the midst of plenty of hard-core programming for work, I got a call from Fed Ex.  Mark Martin had arranged for a “hold at facility” on my shipment, which meant that Fed Ex called me when the boxes arrived.  It is better, and often quicker, than letting the fish […]

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