Breeding designer Ocellaris

[albyone]

So backstory time... I set this tank up for seahorses. But... I have a regular orange ocellaris paired with a misbar orange ocellaris. And I thought it would be really cool to get a pair of black ocellaris to coexist in the tank since I have 2 bta in the main display... but that didn't work. My orange ocellaris bullied the smaller black ocellaris until the bigger black ocellaris eventually started bullying him as well.

So I had this 10 gallon tank I am going to try and breed sexy shrimp in and ocellaris fry if they ever emerge!

So any advice and personal experience breeding clownfish and ideal conditions to breed... lighting, flow, temp ...etc... thanks for participating in advance

 

[denbf58]

once your pair is bonded keep them well feed i recommend lrs fertility frenzy water temp 80 deg good clean water a must . clay flower pot or tile also when they lay eggs you also will have to learn how to keep rotifers and green water to feed the reed mariculture is a good place to get supplys get a book on breeding there is alot to know if you want to be sucessful

 

[gar732]

Heavy feeding, longer light cycle, lower salinity, and higher temps will help encourage them to breed. The fry will need a tank set up especially for them, the way you have that tank set up won't work. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/picassos-breeding-project.166777/ this is my thread from when I was raising clowns. It might give you some ideas. Just read as much as you can and don't get discouraged if it takes a few times to get a clutch through meta once they start laying, sometimes there is a learning curve to getting everything exactly as it should be.

 

[albyone]

Week 2. I added a hang on refugium being that my clean up crew for this tank is a ss sea star and 2 top snails.

The clowns are doing great

 

[albyone]

Week 2. I added a hang on refugium being that my clean up crew for this tank is a ss sea star and 2 top snails.

The clowns are doing great