inferior captive-bred Gold Stripe Maroon

jeffyang · Oct 10, 2018

I have been looking for the good quality captive-bred gold stripe maroon for a while.
I haven't seen or received any good ones so far. All of them have either pinched head or underbite.

It seems to be more common for captive-bred maroon having lower quality than other captive-bred clownfish.

Does anyone know any good source?

cracker · Oct 10, 2018

This is interesting. I wonder if this is common in captive bred fish.

Geebs19 · Oct 10, 2018

I would try to keep an eye on Divers Den, I have seen a few in there recently.

Ron Popeil · Oct 10, 2018

sent you a PM

Christopher Davis · Oct 10, 2018

Took me forever to find this pair I experienced the exact same thing. Just went through a hellacious pairing process, not only finding a good looking fish is difficult, but try finding fish that like eachother! Good luck!

jeffyang · Oct 10, 2018

Christopher Davis said:
Took me forever to find this pair I experienced the exact same thing. Just went through a hellacious pairing process, not only finding a good looking fish is difficult, but try finding fish that like eachother! Good luck!

WOW! Really nice. Where did you get them?

Christopher Davis · Oct 10, 2018

wencui yang said:
WOW! Really nice. Where did you get them?

I got lucky searching Craigslist for the female, I just looked for guys selling their tanks and looked at their inhabitants lists! I got lucky to score the female that way! She’s awesome both fish have perfect gold bars no imperfections like I was finding with the ORA captive breeding.

Finding the male was an absolute nightmare ( I’ll elaborate)from shipping related instances trying to fly a male in from Cali, that didn’t work out at all fedex forgot to overnight me the fish which left it sitting in a box for 15 hrs...:mad:
luckily the sender got the fish back alive.

That was attempt 2 for a male attempt 1 failed miserably as the female rejected that male and has do give him back to my LFS that I drove all the way across Colorado to locate.

And I got lucky with attemp 3 by just poppin into my LFS they got a shipment from Sumatra and there just so happened to be a GB There!

Long story short even these two almost killed eachother that’s why you see them finally in a breeding box. They kicked the crap out of eachother and I’m healing them right now from all the torn fins.

Such a process it’s been but they are truly prefect as far as GB maroons go

Christopher Davis · Oct 10, 2018

Don’t be alarmed by the torn fins they love eachother now just reinforcing the pair and keeping them in QT to heal up!

cracker · Oct 10, 2018

must be quite a torrid love affair . Those fins are pretty beat up .

jamie1210 · Oct 10, 2018

Those look like wild caught maroons. Beautiful! Ive noticed that the more "designer" the clowns are, the more deformed the captive bred ones are. This is likely bc breeders are focusing on crazy patterns and not the overall conformation of the fish. Look at cb skunk clowns,.fish that dont have picasso stripes. For the most part, they look ok.

Christopher Davis said:
Took me forever to find this pair I experienced the exact same thing. Just went through a hellacious pairing process, not only finding a good looking fish is difficult, but try finding fish that like eachother! Good luck!

Christopher Davis · Oct 10, 2018

cracker said:
must be quite a torrid love affair . Those fins are pretty beat up .

Oh yeah I thought it was a failed attempt, but they are spinning now and not tearing fins it’s been 5 days now. I was pretty alarmed when I came home and thought I was going to have to intervene treating with kana and metro as we speak both eating strong and sleeping side by side. This hobby can be brutal at times.

Christopher Davis · Oct 10, 2018

@wencui yang I know @MSB123 had a good looking maroon he might sell ya!

Christopher Davis · Oct 11, 2018

jamie1210 said:
Those look like wild caught maroons. Beautiful! Ive noticed that the more "designer" the clowns are, the more deformed the captive bred ones are. This is likely bc breeders are focusing on crazy patterns and not the overall conformation of the fish. Look at cb skunk clowns,.fish that dont have picasso stripes. For the most part, they look ok.

Just looked at CB skunks those look pretty good! They have messed up the perc and occ bad IMHO.
Half the fish I see for sale should have been culled.

davocean · Oct 11, 2018

jamie1210 said:
Those look like wild caught maroons. Beautiful! Ive noticed that the more "designer" the clowns are, the more deformed the captive bred ones are. This is likely bc breeders are focusing on crazy patterns and not the overall conformation of the fish. Look at cb skunk clowns,.fish that dont have picasso stripes. For the most part, they look ok.

Like any animal really there are good and bad breeders out there, sometimes it takes a search.
I probably searched like 8 mo before I finally got my clowns because I was so picky about shape and lack of deformities more than pattern, I just got lucky and got good patterns too.
I know Vossen has quality clowns, not sure if they have maroons, but they are a good breeder choice, and I follow a fb page called clown fish marketplace that has some decent breeders usually.

davocean · Oct 11, 2018

Christopher Davis said:
Oh yeah I thought it was a failed attempt, but they are spinning now and not tearing fins it’s been 5 days now. I was pretty alarmed when I came home and thought I was going to have to intervene treating with kana and metro as we speak both eating strong and sleeping side by side. This hobby can be brutal at times.

Maroons always seem more aggressive pairing, glad worked out for you