Lightning Breeding Directive

An Important Note to Would Be Lightning Maroon Clownfish Breeders

I cannot really legally enforce upon you an agreement that you’ll only breed these fish with other PNG White Stripe Maroons, but I implore you to do just that. Be a responsible aquarist and conscientious breeder.
Please do not make Gold Stripe X Lightning hybrids; these have the potential to destroy the efforts of conservation minded breeders. It is possible that the Gold Stripe Maroon is a distinct species of Premnas (in my opinion) and hybridization between species cannot be undone. The results of Gold Stripe X White Stripe Maroons are disappointing anyways, a mixture of the traits, which means only a pale yellow infusuion at best would occur. If you want to work with really unique Gold Stripe Maroon variations, please work with the Gold Flake Maroon Clownfish lines out of ORA.
Always seek out the best possible mate for your Lightning Maroon Clownfish.
In the absence of wild PNG Maroon Clownfish to purchase as mates, the next best possible mate is one of the F1 siblings. I am working on producing other lines of PNG White Stripe maroons at this time, so please be patient…I may have other options for you in the future, and breeders who are holding my F1 Lightning Maroons will get extra consideration from me should I have distinct bloodlines to offer in the future. Should wild caught PNG Maroons once again become available, these are IDEAL outcrosses and would be the best choice to create a diverse, stable genetic base in captivity. If you’re forced to go outside the PNG provenance to find another white stripe maroon mate, note that the PNG provenance cannot be “recovered”..once that purity is lost, it is lost.

Keep EXCELLENT records, and pass along that full lineage with your offspring…if you outcross to non-PNG white stripe maroons, please do denote that with any fish you sell. DO expect a rather harsh public criticism of any efforts to hybridize these fish – they are far too valuable and need your efforts in preserving good clean bloodlines.
If you are one of the lucky winners to receive my fish, welcome to the “inner circle”. Please do reach out to me and make a connection. I may opt to start up an email chain or private forum for people working with breeding the Lightning Maroon Clownfish to further facilitate cooperation and coordination in our efforts.

#1 | Written by Francisco about 11 years ago.

Hello Matt, reading over I come up with the following question. Would you consider a white stripe maroon clownfish from Iryan Jaya Which of course is the western half of New Guinea a suitable candidate to pair up with one of the lighting maroons? In terms of keeping the linage of fish.
- #2 | Written by Matt Pedersen about 11 years ago.
  
  Francisco; that’s an interesting question. Geographically, one would have to ask if there is contiguous reefs from Port Moresby to Irian Jaya, as well as what the prevailing currents are. As the crow flies, these are separated by hundreds of miles, but they do share a common coastline. It is conceivable that they might all be part of a larger genetic population with gene flow going throughout, based on the geography at hand. But we could be totally wrong.
  That said, there seems to be little variation between all the white stripe populations of maroon clownfish. If we really think about this, it’s my understanding that the Gold Stripe Maroons in fact come from Sumatra, which is techncially in an entirely different OCEAN (Indian) vs. the White Stripes (Pacific) – possibly one more ding on the notion that these are the same species.
  I’d say that a known provenance fish is better than one that isn’t, and that an Irian Jaya white stripe is a better mate than a random anonymous white stripe, but I’d still say that a known PNG-derived (Southeastern, Port Moresby / Fisherman’s Island) lineage is simply better still. Sea & Reef’s Morse Codes are from the same lineage, are quite affordable, and look just like my non-lightning White Stripe offspring. They should be available from anyone who’s selling Sea & Reef fish, and are currently fully unrelated to my own.
#3 | Written by Francisco about 10 years ago.

Matt thanks for the response, I though I responded to you comment before, but I guess I did not. Got 2 White stripes from Irian Jaya, very nice fish one very large female and one Large male. Strange enough even though they came from the wild directly and they where not a pair, they paired up quite fast with very little fin lost. And they are already cleaning their pot. Which brings me to my next question. When are you guys planing to sale some lighting offspring??? 😉
- #4 | Written by Matt Pedersen about 10 years ago.
  
  More lightning maroon auctions coming soon…Blue Zoo is currently waiting on me to get my act together.
#5 | Written by Jimbobwei Burton about 10 years ago.

Thanks. Looks like I have aa ton of homework to do.
#6 | Written by taylor about 10 years ago.

I’m really excited about what your doing here. I’m actually looking at doing myself. I am really thinking about two PNG lightning and trying to breed the lightning x lightning. Amy suggestions? Ideas? Helpful hints? Please email me and I would love to keep in the loop. Especially if I get this going as soon as I want to!