Clowns won’t breed.

MysticBlue · Aug 19, 2022

Hey guys so I’ve got a mated pair of clowns that I’ve had for two years and they just refuse to breed. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong they’ve hosted to a clay pot and they clean it regularly. My waters fairly clean and I have really good parameters so what am I doing wrong?

ps. There names are coral and midnight I’m sure you can’t guess who’s who lol.

sergifed91 · Aug 19, 2022

I have had my paired for a little over 4 years. Their mated but not breeding. It will happen when or if it happens. But over all raising fry isn't why I got into the hobby. I love fish and I love just relaxing and drink a pop and watch the fish in my DT. It's relaxing.

monkeyCmonkeyDo · Aug 19, 2022

Eh it'll end up as mostly fish food anyways. I've had emerald spawn but not fish.
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monkeyCmonkeyDo · Aug 19, 2022

Crabs*

monkeyCmonkeyDo · Aug 19, 2022

I agree. It'll happen when it happens.
Have u tried playing soft love music?
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vetteguy53081 · Aug 19, 2022

Mine took close to three years and I now have 4 breeding pair. Its up to them, tank conditions and compatability

DaneGer21 · Aug 19, 2022

I had clowns for almost 10yrs before they decided. After that, she laid every 14 days.

It could be a maturity thing, or environmental thing.

sergifed91 · Aug 19, 2022

I had my mollies mate. I didn't plan on it. I didn't even notice until one day doing maintenance. I caught them in my sump and moved them to my DT. Sure enough they found there way back to the sump. Caught them and back into my DT. Next day I looked and back in the sump again. So I just left them there. Now today I caught as many as I could and back in my DT. There schooling together which is fine. And no other fish are bothering them. So now instead of four dalmatian mollies I have 20 total

MysticBlue · Aug 19, 2022

Is there anything I can do to speed up the process? I’ve tried disco music but I don’t think there in to that lol

MysticBlue · Aug 19, 2022

sergifed91 said:
I had my mollies mate. I didn't plan on it. I didn't even notice until one day doing maintenance. I caught them in my sump and moved them to my DT. Sure enough they found there way back to the sump. Caught them and back into my DT. Next day I looked and back in the sump again. So I just left them there. Now today I caught as many as I could and back in my DT. There schooling together which is fine. And no other fish are bothering them. So now instead of four dalmatian mollies I have 20 total

I’ve done that to except I probably had over 300 within two months so I ended up selling them and now I want some baby clowns. Is it possible to have a school of clowns if they grow up together?

Tuan’s Reef · Aug 19, 2022

but have you tried Marvin Gaye?

Tamberav · Aug 19, 2022

Maybe food? Everything I have had pairs of spawns when mature...

Wrasse
Mandarins/Scooters
Clowns
Filefish
Pipefish

are the pairs I have had and every one of them spawned.

I feed frozen LRS and live foods.

MysticBlue · Aug 19, 2022

Tuan’s Reef said:
but have you tried Marvin Gaye?

Yes and and it backfired on me and my girls lol!!

MysticBlue · Aug 19, 2022

Tamberav said:
Maybe food? Everything I have had pairs of spawns when mature...

Wrasse
Mandarins/Scooters
Clowns
Filefish
Pipefish

are the pairs I have had

I feed frozen LRS and live foods.

I know for sure the female is mature I’m not sure on the male. How long until he will mature?

Tamberav · Aug 19, 2022

MysticBlue said:
I know for sure the female is mature I’m not sure on the male. How long until he will mature?

Males don't seem to take as long... maybe a year.

Low stress and food... make sure no other tank mates are bothering them.

sergifed91 · Aug 19, 2022

I'm waiting for my Valentino puffers to mate. Not sure on the sex of them. But one is 4 inches and the other is 2 inches. If they were both male or female I figured they would fight each other. But they swim together and no issues between the two.