My Tank and My Goals

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[Reeferjunkie]

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[Jeffcb]

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[Kiwi reefer]

Welcome to R2R

 

[Sebastiancrab]

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[Reef and Dive]

Welcome to the best reefing forum in the world!

 

[ShepherdReefer]

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[Fishfreak2009]

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[Manny’s Reef]

Hello and welcome to the R2R family. Glad to have you here.

 

[Kody's Corals]

as basic as it may sound, you have a tank full Xenia, and a stated request to learn to frag, so here you are with the best tool you could ask for, practice fragging Xenia (I give them to my LFS).
As to Breeding your clowns, you are on your own... (smile)

Thanks for replying, I have already started fragging my Xenia and even traded two of my frags for Kenya tree frags. It was a lot of fun. If you have more helpful hints and tricks on coral growth and fragging I’d love to hear them.

 

[Kody's Corals]

as basic as it may sound, you have a tank full Xenia, and a stated request to learn to frag, so here you are with the best tool you could ask for, practice fragging Xenia (I give them to my LFS).
As to Breeding your clowns, you are on your own... (smile)

I’ve already started fragging my Xenia and even traded my frags for some Kenya trees. It was a lot of fun. If you have any more helpful hints on coral growth and fragging plz let me know.

 

[Kody's Corals]

Hey there! We're a small business called Frag Farm, and I think we can help! We've been fragging coral for years ad can definitely help you with whatever questions you may have. Feel free to email us at [email protected] for a discount code that you can apply to our website. Check out fragfarmcoral.com for more! Best of luck and happy

as basic as it may sound, you have a tank full Xenia, and a stated request to learn to frag, so here you are with the best tool you could ask for, practice fragging Xenia (I give them to my LFS).
As to Breeding your clowns, you are on your own... (smile)

Thanks for reaching out could you tell me how long your lights are on for and how often you feed and what you feed your corals. Thanks again.

 

[bnord]

Thanks for replying, I have already started fragging my Xenia and even traded two of my frags for Kenya tree frags. It was a lot of fun. If you have more helpful hints and tricks on coral growth and fragging I’d love to hear them.

can't help you with Kenya Trees - in a tank that grows all other soft and leathers, I have one pathetic KT that is 40% the size it was what I planted it 18 months ago...

 

[bnord]

Hey there! We're a small business called Frag Farm, and I think we can help! We've been fragging coral for years ad can definitely help you with whatever questions you may have. Feel free to email us at [email protected] for a discount code that you can apply to our website. Check out fragfarmcoral.com for more! Best of luck and happy

Thanks for reaching out could you tell me how long your lights are on for and how often you feed and what you feed your corals. Thanks again.

Sunrise in Palau today was 6:19, sunset was 6:12.
Manila was more or less the same.

I love the slow ramp up time and down times that a good program can afford you, (Mobius in my case) and a bank of T4's to mimic an 11 to 2:30 "high noon". I understand that folks believe the quality photosynthesis takes place in the morning and mid afternoon and perhaps the t$s are not doing what I think they are. That's for the inhabitants.

For me, I love to see them wake after all my early morning chores are over and can do a light feeding, and my wife bridles at the "have to keep the lights off in the den" line, so a 9:30 am to 9:00 pm with 90 minus ramp up and downs and that has worked well for corals and fish and the family for just at a year now.

 

[bnord]

Sunrise in Palau today was 6:19, sunset was 6:12.
Manila was more or less the same.

I love the slow ramp up time and down times that a good program can afford you, (Mobius in my case) and a bank of T4's to mimic an 11 to 2:30 "high noon". I understand that folks believe the quality photosynthesis takes place in the morning and mid afternoon and perhaps the t$s are not doing what I think they are. That's for the inhabitants.

For me, I love to see them wake after all my early morning chores are over and can do a light feeding, and my wife bridles at the "have to keep the lights off in the den" line, so a 9:30 am to 9:00 pm with 90 minus ramp up and downs and that has worked well for corals and fish and the family for just at a year now.

For feeding, I weeks with nothing, and they all seem fine, and then weeks whee a couple of times they get roads of micro pellets, late in the day with all the flow off, and they all seem just a little finer.

Watch and read what types seem to benefit and which ones don't and focus fire. Both DTs do get amino acids (little fishes) and mine are on a loser, but pipetting works too

 

[Kody's Corals]

Hi Kody and Welcome! Glad you joined.

Have you considered starting your build thread? I found its a great place to document my tank's evolution for myself. I started tank first then joined, so I'm still finding myself going back collecting pictures & updating historically as well as current state. Once you create your first post in your thread and link it to your account, they will give you build badge (look left, under my ID)

Healthy Xenia is pretty tough stuff. Where it's growing and you don't want it to be there, you can scrape it off and let it rest/heal and if you have something under it during that process it will reattach. You can see if your LFS will take and may give store credit. You can also reach to local hobby club(s), etc and see if you have a market there. Larger frags of Xenia likely get more attention/interest since this is a hardier coral

My clownfish lay eggs about every 10-14 days. I credit quality and variety of foods with this success. I think how pregnant women take vitamins, so I add in live blackworms and live pods as well.

This is a good reference book type online article I still review:

The Supreme Guide To Setting Up A Saltwater Reef Aquarium

This article was sponsored by @MarineDepot at www.marinedepot.com. Introduction The marine environment is one of the most complex systems on the planet. The aquarium you are about to set up is only a tiny sliver of the vast ocean, but it is no...

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Thank you so much for reaching out I really want my clowns to lay eggs. Are your clowns the only ones in the tank? How long are your lights on for? Do they have an anemone? What are they laying on?

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Thank you so much for reaching out I really want my clowns to lay eggs. Are your clowns the only ones in the tank? How long are your lights on for? Do they have an anemone? What are they laying on?

I credit variety of foods including live blackworms to my clown's early egg laying and successful hatching... and then those fry help my other 20 some fish have 'tickle in their tummy' from eating tiny clowns... I feed thawed many foods 2x daily, live black worms 2x daily, live pods from 3 tiny culture tanks 1-3x daily (depending how pods are doing determines how many pod supplemental meals get moved over)... here is example but just what I had at time of photo, constantly different frozen foods cycling in, so not limited to below frozen foods:




Yes, I've an anemone that loves to split and loves to move killing corals in the tank, but currently two anemones at one end of tank. It hosts my four clown harem that lives at that end of tank - female, male, male-want-to-be and juvenile they don't let get bigger (all same age, bought same time when all same size).

Lights are full on only about 6 hours, but room is southern facing with wall of windows, so even with new mini-blinds (concession due to algae growth) room gets bright so early... so our ramp up is from 8am until 8:30pm because light from outside has the fish up anyhow - this is NEW setting as it used to be from 10:30am until 8:30pm with full on about 6 hours (unchanged full on settings)

Clowns are laying eggs on a rock that depending on what anemone is doing results in eggs either, right, left above or below. They clean whereever on the rock they intend to lay eggs, then starting around lunchtime begin. Once laid eggs in rock cup (made of mortar) that the anemone's foot is supposed to be in... and anemone usually was stretched over cup top so clowns couldn't get back in... don't know how that batch turned out... it happens so often and hatchings happen at lights out that I'm not paying as much attention any more. If there wasn't a rock handy, bet they'd lay eggs on the return plastic or glass - whatever is near where they stay... They spin in circles over where ever they are laying eggs that particular time.

I have another clownfish pair that live at the other end of tank in my gonipora colonies... they aren't yet laying eggs and I was going to keep them until they were bigger so they could be 'breeding pair' but they really bother corals. They killed some small frogspawn and other little frags that were at that end before deciding goniporas made nice homes (NOT), and I bet my goniporas would be doing better if they didn't have two clownfish bodies constantly rubbing on them... so today we've caught one during lunch feeding and expect to catch other at dinner feeding. They were bought same time as other clowns, but chased out of that area of tank. The two left side clowns have tried sneaking back over to right side of my 180g, but lasts only moments until spotted and chased out.

In hindsight, never should have bought so many clowns..... glad you just have two.

I've no intentions in near future to suck eggs out and raise fry into clownfish, but maybe some future time when I've got more time on my hands. I'm just so glad that my fish are healthy enough to be doing this as it must take a lot of energy to constantly be parents. Human women take vitamins... fish just have what we feed them. I want all my fish to be healthy enough that if they had a partner, they'd also be breeding

NOTE: don't go with live foods from seafood market... nothing new in my tank except live clam from asian market... and my blue tang had parasites 4 days later - now in medicated QT... so... go variety but learn from my mistake and keep with quality foods intended to be eaten by fish... asian market probably intended humans would steam those clams, killing any parasites (but no clams going into me for a LONG time after this... I've gotten parasites from eating a river clam years ago and forgot all about it until AFTER blue tang got sick...) Still waiting to see if any other fish in tank gets sick... blue tang is pig, so hoping its only one ...

 

[attiland]

Hi my name is Kody and I’ve been in the hobby for almost two years now. I have a 40 gallon tank that is overgrown with Xenia. I also have an assortment of mushrooms and some frog spawn. I have three fish a bonded pair of Gladiator clowns that are absolutely gorgeous and a juvenile dragon wrasse. I’m eager to breed my clowns and raise their fry. I also want to get into fraging coral. I’m excited to learn and grow with this community and would love if experienced breeders and people who frag reached out with tips.

Welcome to R2R

 

[Kody's Corals]

I credit variety of foods including live blackworms to my clown's early egg laying and successful hatching... and then those fry help my other 20 some fish have 'tickle in their tummy' from eating tiny clowns... I feed thawed many foods 2x daily, live black worms 2x daily, live pods from 3 tiny culture tanks 1-3x daily (depending how pods are doing determines how many pod supplemental meals get moved over)... here is example but just what I had at time of photo, constantly different frozen foods cycling in, so not limited to below frozen foods:




Yes, I've an anemone that loves to split and loves to move killing corals in the tank, but currently two anemones at one end of tank. It hosts my four clown harem that lives at that end of tank - female, male, male-want-to-be and juvenile they don't let get bigger (all same age, bought same time when all same size).

Lights are full on only about 6 hours, but room is southern facing with wall of windows, so even with new mini-blinds (concession due to algae growth) room gets bright so early... so our ramp up is from 8am until 8:30pm because light from outside has the fish up anyhow - this is NEW setting as it used to be from 10:30am until 8:30pm with full on about 6 hours (unchanged full on settings)

Clowns are laying eggs on a rock that depending on what anemone is doing results in eggs either, right, left above or below. They clean whereever on the rock they intend to lay eggs, then starting around lunchtime begin. Once laid eggs in rock cup (made of mortar) that the anemone's foot is supposed to be in... and anemone usually was stretched over cup top so clowns couldn't get back in... don't know how that batch turned out... it happens so often and hatchings happen at lights out that I'm not paying as much attention any more. If there wasn't a rock handy, bet they'd lay eggs on the return plastic or glass - whatever is near where they stay... They spin in circles over where ever they are laying eggs that particular time.

I have another clownfish pair that live at the other end of tank in my gonipora colonies... they aren't yet laying eggs and I was going to keep them until they were bigger so they could be 'breeding pair' but they really bother corals. They killed some small frogspawn and other little frags that were at that end before deciding goniporas made nice homes (NOT), and I bet my goniporas would be doing better if they didn't have two clownfish bodies constantly rubbing on them... so today we've caught one during lunch feeding and expect to catch other at dinner feeding. They were bought same time as other clowns, but chased out of that area of tank. The two left side clowns have tried sneaking back over to right side of my 180g, but lasts only moments until spotted and chased out.

In hindsight, never should have bought so many clowns..... glad you just have two.

I've no intentions in near future to suck eggs out and raise fry into clownfish, but maybe some future time when I've got more time on my hands. I'm just so glad that my fish are healthy enough to be doing this as it must take a lot of energy to constantly be parents. Human women take vitamins... fish just have what we feed them. I want all my fish to be healthy enough that if they had a partner, they'd also be breeding

NOTE: don't go with live foods from seafood market... nothing new in my tank except live clam from asian market... and my blue tang had parasites 4 days later - now in medicated QT... so... go variety but learn from my mistake and keep with quality foods intended to be eaten by fish... asian market probably intended humans would steam those clams, killing any parasites (but no clams going into me for a LONG time after this... I've gotten parasites from eating a river clam years ago and forgot all about it until AFTER blue tang got sick...) Still waiting to see if any other fish in tank gets sick... blue tang is pig, so hoping its only one ...

Thank you so much! This information has been so helpful. I really appreciate how informative you've been an have taken time to respond to me. Since I live a good hour or more from my local fish store I'm going to have to make do with what I have. I have the Reef Frenzy, Fish Frenzy, and Fertility Frenzy and I rotate between them every day. I need to start feeding more than once a day. Right now I feed them until they look fat every morning. Would you recommend higher temperatures as well like 80 degrees fahrenheit? Again thank you so much.

 

[Flameback Pair]

Hello @Kody's Corals !!! We’re one big happy family here and glad you joined us. Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help you.