The Lightning Project

The ongoing saga of the PNG Lightning Maroon Clownfish breeding project.

Browsing Posts published in November, 2014

Just jotting down notes…Spawn #45 of the wild Lightning Maroon pair happened on the evening of 11-19-2014.  Meanwhile, LxL (the F1 Lightning Pair) Spawn #5 was gone by the same day….they obviously didn’t like me tiling their entire tank. I need to go by more terra cotta flowerpots…maybe they’ll like that.

So much going on and I’m NOT doing a proper job of tracking things. I should start with the unrelated F0 PNG White Stripe Maroon Clownfish pair…they spawned sometime last week, possibly Wednesday the 12th. I didn’t make much of a fuss about documentation of it because I knew I couldn’t deal with them at […]

So despite two nights of attempted hatching of harvested eggs, I ultimately only got ONE viable larvae out of LxL Spawn #3.  It is in a BRT all by itself. On 11/7/2014 – the F1 Lightning X Lightning pair threw down another nest…and once again, not on a tile.  I won’t be in town to […]

Not a lot of time tonight, so I get to be real quick. Spawn #44 was laid by the F0 pair on late evening of 11/3/2014.  Spawn #43 ended up no hatching much when it was finally set up, but seems to have hatched apparently during the morning. I opted to harvest 50% of the […]