Noticed these eggs in the center of my toadstool last night. My clownfish mostly hung aroung it, but the last couple of days, my lawnmower blenny hasn't left it alone. So, I'm not sure if the clowns did it or if it was the blenny. very small eggs... 1mm blueish white. Toadstool hasn't opened up sice this occurred. Sorry about the pic, You can't see the eggs in the pics with MH on... too much glare. I had to go with the actinics.
somebody laid eggs
- Thread starter loismustdie
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- Union Square, NY
Are the eggs in sacks or individually laid?
Another photo would definately help.
Another photo would definately help.
- Location
- Union Square, NY
Right in the middle above where the picture gets white? They are blue eggs? They must have been laid by the clowns.
The sarcophyton will try to shed its skin in a day or two and if you don't act fast the eggs will get carried away.
If you have nothing to do with them, contact Adrian (ricordiaking) and give them to him. He is very successful with clownfish breeding and will probably hook you up with some fry once they are big enough. Growing them out is very hard if you have never done it before.
Good luck!
The sarcophyton will try to shed its skin in a day or two and if you don't act fast the eggs will get carried away.
If you have nothing to do with them, contact Adrian (ricordiaking) and give them to him. He is very successful with clownfish breeding and will probably hook you up with some fry once they are big enough. Growing them out is very hard if you have never done it before.
Good luck!
- Location
- Union Square, NY
It depends if they are boys or girls.
Blue = boy clownfish
Pink = girl clownfish
At least until they mature and then they all become girl clownfish.
:meow:
Blue = boy clownfish
Pink = girl clownfish
At least until they mature and then they all become girl clownfish.
:meow:
griMReefer
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- hillside @ 188 st, qnz-nas border
is there any way to breed clownfish with like a fake anemone or something?
sorry about the pics everyone. Wish I could have done better, I'll have to play with my camera a little more. The clowns are small. Right around 2". I've never heard of the different colored egg thing... interesting. These eggs are definately blue. As for clowns laying eggs, I've been told they like to lay eggs on a flat rock near their anenome. Captive raised will use anything from corals to flowerpots as anenomes. This toadstool has been closed for a few days, a pocillopora rolled against it and stung it, so he was pretty unhappy.
- Location
- Union Square, NY
You can't force them to breed, they might have different views on life, different career paths, unusual interests, or it just might not be the right time in their lives.
But they will host in a LOT of things, leather corals, torch corals (avoid this as it eventually kills the torch), hairy mushrooms, some frogspawns, green star polyps, etc.
But they will host in a LOT of things, leather corals, torch corals (avoid this as it eventually kills the torch), hairy mushrooms, some frogspawns, green star polyps, etc.
griMReefer
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- Location
- hillside @ 188 st, qnz-nas border
JoshSaul said:
will they host both ways with a Haitian Reef Anemone? a Rock Anemone? i ask because many yrs back my first reef tank had a Condylactic that the domino damsels seemed so happy in until they started disappearing one by one. i figured they hosted the condy but the condy had them for supper.
i dont get the whole host thing -- who hosts who? i assumed its the anemone that hosts but is it the other way around? why?? my logic was that the "host" is the one offering quarters/protection...
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- Union Square, NY
Actually, they will tolerate non-anemone corals, but NOT any of the incorrect anemones. So Atlantic and Haitian I believe are out.
Also they will host in a lot of LPS corals but only ones that are not as irritating (i.e. non clownfish stinging, may be different even in the same LPS species).
Also they will host in a lot of LPS corals but only ones that are not as irritating (i.e. non clownfish stinging, may be different even in the same LPS species).
when my clowns started to lat eggs they use to lay them on my dresa giant dresa clam. fist time i seen the eggs i had no idea what they were. until i bought a book about clowns.. i never seen blue eggs. and they laid several batches of eggs. until the black out in 2003 killed my whole tank.
- Location
- Union Square, NY
Yeah they like clams too as long as the clam is tolerant. If they are hosting in a clam look behind the mantle around the base for the eggs.
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