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Some percularis pictures today with my cell phone. Different ages. I haven't one more tank with the middle-aged. However I did not take a picture of it today. These are my baby's. Some 8 months to 18 days. They are all the same species. They just change as they age. Even the eight month old babies. Will still change they haven't got their tail fin colors yet.

New pictures today

right now reef crystal salt on Amazon is on sale for $36.00. for 5 gallons bucket. 160 gallons

My babies are going into the last stage of growth. My very first baby is getting an orange tail. This can take a while however. They get part coloring and then as they age a little bit more will come . probably within the next few months. Just so everybody knows percula and ocellaris has the slowest growing of all the clowns. They're also one of the smallest clowns as adults. They're typically also the most docile out of all the clowns. Also on another note I am getting a pair of long-finned ocellaris. I'm thinking black ice once to breed soon. It will probably take me a couple months to get them to breed. Once I get them in. But they'll be readily available once the babies are old enough.

Getting a pair of longfin black ice clowns in soon. Going to try to breed them. Might take a while pending their age. But I'm doing it. They can have two possible outcomes for a spring. Black ice standard. And longfin black ice. Either way I have a good item to sell. And I'll be bringing them into town. Where they're not readily available. Really hyped.

welcome nice to meet you

Hi, I'm in Springfield. Been reefing since I was a baby. Welcome... I also breed clownfish.

Mom is a percula, dad is a ocellaris. Baby's are percularis. Though they larvae thru metamorphosis like a percula, they grow to color of a ocellaris. Interesting. Awaiting to see if they black band like a percula or ocellaris. The oranges are a distinct from percula to ocellaris In picture mom on top percula Bottom is dad ocellaris Perculas have thin black bands, ocellaris has thicker bands. And my parents are 12 year old clowns. So far they think clowns can live 15 to 20 years.

The tank has no pipes. No sump. New aqua clear, new heater, no substrate. 2 new pcv elbos. Rocks dry for at least year. Maybe there were eggs on dry rock. That's the only thing I can think of. It's a plain glassbtank. With nothing in it. Really. Just 100 clowns. No other items.

I use a relassy. They are controlled with my phone, super thin LEDs. Great customer service. Great no heat. About $99. Really good spectrum. There's a plant relassy and a reef one. I run both.

I hope not my food. I use premium tdo.

I've had a tank running for 4 months. The tank had two pieces of dry tongue go in it. No sand. And always fresh salt water. The only thing that's been put in the tank are baby clownfish. Clowns I hatched. Nothing else. It gets regular water changes three times a week. With fresh water. And I only feed it tdo food. So how did I find three glass and enemies today in that tank? I remove the rock instantly and put it in a bucket to kill them. It won't go back into any of my tanks. I don't have glass anemomes in any of my tanks. So how the heck did I get a glass anemone. Much less three. I put a new piece of dry Tonga Rock in that tank.

What did they did of?

Anyone have any long finned clown fish? Just wondering your experience with them. thinking about buying a pair to breed. But they are about $130 each so I want to know if its worth it. I'm thinking of black ice long finned

Hundreds of percularis clownsfish ranging from 30 days to 4 months. Another batch going too hatch in 7 days. Thinking I'll hatch a few hundred. Sorry tank so dirty I have noravirus. So been in and out of hospital sick. All raised on tdo from day 8. Also eating brine every few days. Rotifers first days of life

It would be nice if someone wanted a clown only tank. It's wierd but I'd hate to see the family split up. After their 4 am cleaning, and 7 am feeling. Lol

I'm not sure yet. Not to selling size yet. But getting close. It's prefered to sell at 1". Safer for fish too.

So I now have clown 5 month to 24 days old. Soon too have another clutch hatching. Just about 200 fish. They are growing out in two 10 gal tanks. I hatch till about 24 to 30 days in a 20 gallon Ada tank. Then they move to a filter tank after a certain size and Metamorphosis. They look like saddle back clowns but orange with a third stripe. At day 6 of life they start TDO reef nutrition. While still once a day live brine shrimp. Before that they eat Marine live rotifers. Rotifers are fed nanno green water. I try to keep them eating as close as nature's food to start off. But tdo reef nutrition is one of the best foods you can feed. I'll swear by it. Reef nutrition tdo pops the fish coloring. Mind you my clowns are really red maroon color until about a month of age. But after that nice orange. Truth that clowns can be together. As long as only one male one female. And rest juveniles. I have no issues. Only one of my clowns nip. And that's my female. And rarely does she. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. That and my hands been in the tanks since day one. The clowns will even swim to my hands and in them.

Itc-308s

I have two 300w and one 150wt heater plugged in to a one inkbird . Ive done it for years. Mind you I use a really good power strip. That's my display tank and sump. So it's big. And in the garage. I see videos with people running inbirds with reptile tanks. They run all their heaters with one inkbird too. My baby clown fish tanks run them too. But those are 10 gallons, and 150w heaters. Garage too so it gets cold out there. I tried to run a 75w heater in the 10 gallons but when it froze be the other night again my inkbird alarm in the baby tanks went off. So I bought 150w for their tanks. Glad it did, There are hundreds of clowns in there. No one wants dead Nemo's in the morning.

itc-308s inkbird. Its probe is the one that is designed for aquariums. I think its On sale today for cyber week on amazon. They make others, but if you read the reviews people always have to change the probe to this one for salt water or they go out. And the probe by itself can be 7 bucks. so in the long run price wise just spend a little more and get it right the first time. they have a warranty on them and really good customer service too. I had to calibrate mine for my baby clown fish tanks. They need to stay at 79.0f, and it was off by .3 degrees. but all you need to do is hit the set button and hold it down and it will take you to all the settings. first one is the temp you want it set to. Then I believe it goes to the adjusting temp that you want it to flux to. so i have most of mine able to go down to 78.0 before the heater turn and go to 80.0 before my chiller will turn on. next is the calibration if you need to . last it has the option to change c to f. The only thing I wish it had was more plugs. It only has one plug for heater and one plug for the chiller. I have three heaters in my tank due to its size. I had to get a power strip. It's only a three plug power strip however. Quite small.

I have a inkbird heater, chiller controller. On Black Friday on my big tank at 5 a.m my heater went out. Just stopped working. I run 800 watts of heaters in my tank. It's a large aquarium in a unheated garage . At 5 am I'm in bed asleep. My Inkbird alarm went off. Beeping. My tank went down to 74 degrees, and dropping. My alarm goes off at 74.0f. I would have never known the tank was freezing without the beeping. I wouldn't have seen it till the lights came on at 5pm. I have five tanks in the garage each one of them have one of these on them. It paid off I lost nothing. I had to run to the store and buy a heater for 50 bucks. And I wish that I could have waited to buy it on Amazon cuz it would have been cheaper. But I didn't lose my fish in my Coral. Or am I breeding clowns. The inkbird heater, chiller controller officially paid for itself. It's a must-have. Nobody wants to wake up in the morning to everything being dead. And I heard it in the back bedroom the farthest room from my garage. Also on my juvenile clownfish tank it went off last week as well. I have over 50 clownfish in that tank. And my 75-watt heater was not enough for the cold. I was able to put another heater in there temporarily until I got a 150 watt. It's a 10 gallon tank. It's just really cold in my garage. So that one paid off as well. I highly recommend to people get a controller for their heater and chillers. You can get them a rather low cost on Amazon. And they keep really good temperature turning on my chiller and my heaters. And alarming if it gets too warm in the tank or too cold in the tank.

I'm so proud. On my first batch of baby clowns one of them has taken to nipping at my arm. Starting today. When I clean the tank. That must be the female in the tank. I have a lot of clowns in a 10 gallon tank. Four batches of babies. But only one female the rest of juveniles. It's so cute to watch them grow and start acting like clowns. I change baby food. I went from feeding flakes pestle and mortared. Now they get TDO. It was a trial food for me. Reef nutrition. Their coloring has just popped on that. Also they're getting bigger faster. So now I'm ordering a few more sizes of tdo. So I can feed mom and dad it as well as baby's at different sizes. Well worth the money

Day 27 I have this baby clown that likes to swim through the bubbles. Till he Carries a bubble beard. Then swims around. Over and over again. Thought he had a growth on his face. Freaked and then it popped. He went back to bubbles and did it again

Day 23 Today was the first day I checked for nitrates. And it was high when they're juveniles they don't really notice but as they get older they will notice nitrates. Did a huge water change. though I had zero parts per million of ammonia. my tank temperature is still reading 79.8 degrees. So that is good. I'm keeping these babies in this tank a little bit longer than normal so I don't give them shocked when I move them