The Lightning Project

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

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I made a rare 8 PM trek down into the fishroom tonight (6/4/2014) and discovered the Lightning Maroon and her mate putting down Spawn #34. Based on how things are going, next Tuesday night should be the pull night. My attempt to get a second night’s hatch out of Spawn #33 utterly failed. I did […]

Did a big 50% water change, Rotifer cultures failing due to too much harvest, lots of losses due to settlement issues presumably due to insufficient rotifers.  Nevertheless, a sizeable group of Lightning Maroon offspring is undergoing settelement starting tonight; first headstripes seen.  They’ve been getting TDO A1 for the last couple days…I hope they’re all […]

It’s the morning of January 13th, 2014; time to play a little catch-up. Back on January 9th, I split the larvae from Spawn #20 from one 10 gallon tank into the 10, plus a 15 gallon BRT on my larviculture racks. When I did the split, I took the opportunity to take a photograph of […]

I let Jake Adams break the news on ReefBuilders, sending him shots in the late/earlier hours (depends on your frame of mind).  I’m quoting an excerpt from Jake’s great writeup from ReefBuilders here, because he really presents an objective view. “Even though the maroon lighting maroon clownfish was paired with a related Premnas biaculeatus from Papua New Guinea, […]

I am still owing the world a full post, but in the interest if simply keeping you all relatively updated, here’s some short tidbits. Based on an egg photo count, there was 310 eggs on the tile and all hatched.  There have been some larval losses, but that is to be expected.  Mike Doty did […]