Clown spawning pics

[~Flighty~]

Preparing the site. Nice realestate. First they bite the anemone until it retracts, then they clean every bit of algae and debris off of the rock

http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=20291&stc=1&d=1162775365

 

[SaltCreep]

Kewl.... I wanna see some pics of eggs!!

I love fish porn.........

 

[~Flighty~]

laying the eggs. I should put a fig leaf on the second pic

 

[~Flighty~]

Final clutch of eggs

 

[this is me]

Incredible!!
Are you rasing them this time?

 

[~Flighty~]

annyone want to count them?

 

[~Flighty~]

Incredible!!
Are you rasing them this time?

No, but I posted the pic as part of an effort to convince someone else to I will be getting set up to do it soon though. It is just a matter of overcomming that first time of culturing phyto and rots and setting up everything I need.

 

[JamisonSmith]

Wow, great shots Cindy! It looks as if you were swimming right next to them to get those shots.
It is an amazing sight to see clowns laying down the eggs and the male coming along behind and fertilizing.
Those look like decent clutches of eggs too, probably at least 200 or so. I seem to recall that that is pretty good for skunks.
Congrats on the happy clowns!

Jamison

 

[~Flighty~]

Video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8262124060986153497

 

[Stimpy]

Super cool vid Cindy,

My new clowns, 1-month have happily harbored in my Lg BTA
this week they are cave digging. BTA under rock on gravel.
Dug a cave from under BTA to outside other side of rock.
Are they preparing, or just normal behavior ??
Should I keep my 2 10g's before giving away??
Thanks

 

[deadhermitwalkin]

Nothing like a good clown porn. =)

 

[pisces5296]

you have great flow, nice video

 

[GinaD]

Awesome pics & video! Thanks for sharing.

 

[~Flighty~]

Super cool vid Cindy,

My new clowns, 1-month have happily harbored in my Lg BTA
this week they are cave digging. BTA under rock on gravel.
Dug a cave from under BTA to outside other side of rock.
Are they preparing, or just normal behavior ??
Should I keep my 2 10g's before giving away??
Thanks

Could be spawning nest preperation. Are they different sizes?

 

[MAReefer1]

wow, great shots, and beautiful anemone!

 

[Scott G]

I love the pics and anemone!! They must have been hard to get

 

[Stimpy]

1- 1-1/2" other 1" Larger (Female?)hogs the BTA, smaller shake in submission.
both sharing BTA this past week or so.

 

[vinny]

Why is it hard to grow the eggs out I don't get it is it because other things in the tank will eat them.Aren't the parents going to take care of them.Can you tell that i'm a newbie .

 

[~Flighty~]

In the wild the babies hatch and swim up to the plankton at the surface and eat microscopic food until they are old enough to venture back to the reef and try to find an anemone that needs another clown. Out of each batch of hundreds of eggs maybe one or two will survive, probably fewer.

In our tanks there is not enough live food to give them a chance and skimmers, pumps and predators quickly kill them all.

 

[vinny]

Thanks for the class cindy.So there isn't any chance of having them grow in a tank.Couldn't you just setup a small tank so when it does happen you could just remove the parents and eggs and feed them with no skimmer just water changes.I would think that if I was in that postion I would try to hatch them, other wise why would one want to pair them .