The Lightning Project

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

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It’s been a busy January here, with my trip to Cleveland to give some well-received talks at C-SEA followed by a grueling week of fishroom preparation in advance of Reef Builder’s world-reknowned Jake Adams dropping by for a surprise visit and a bit of Q&A at the Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club’s winter / holiday […]

Well honestly, I just don’t know what I did that caused this one to be so much better than any prior to date, but somehow the stars aligned and I wound up with something like 1000 baby Lightning Maroons.  And the best part is that I am HERE and able to care for the fish […]

Lots of updates with no photos, so why not take a moment and remember what we all really enjoy – seeing these fish grow up. First up, my one-ventral-finned holdback so I can keep tracking developing photos of the pattern on this fish. Before I left on my fishing trip last week, I took the […]

Stumbled across this post last week and figured I’d share it here – Brandon Mehlhoff shared some updates on LM15 and its PNG mate over on Reef2Reef.  I snagged one of his videos showing the pair here: Go see more over about Brandon’s Lightning Maroon on Reef2Reef.com!

On a whim I checked eBay tonight, and there it was, the first auction of the next 6 fish to be sold by Blue Zoo Aquatics.  They have kicked things off with Lightning Maroon #5 (LM5) – here’s a link to the LM5 Lightning Maroon Clownfish auction on eBay. From reading the auction description, it […]

I finally go to shot some photos last week (October 14th), and among them are updates of the holdback pair.  I’ve also updated the “Lightning Maroon Pattern Progression” post to show how it continues to evolve. Here’s the latest:

Blue Zoo Aquatics has listed the next 8 offspring from the Lightning Maroon Clownfish, dubbed the “Amazing 8”. The auction is live on eBay at this time – you can view all the auctions quickly via Blue Zoo Aquatics’ eBay items listing. The first auction started Saturday night, 9/14/2013, with LM7.  As of this evening, […]

It’s delightful to see that the Lightning Maroon pair has finally settled into a spawning routine.  No sooner had I botched spawn #11, and they go put down spawn #12.  On an interesting side note, I discovered what apparently happened with Spawn #10 – about a week after the larvae had all vanished, I took […]

It’s been a busy couple weeks around MACNA and I wasn’t even THERE this time! I have to circle back to the last update which left us with Spawn #9’s babies disappearing, and the laying down of Spawn #10 on 8-26-2013. Well…I did not pulled Spawn #10 as planned on the night of September 2nd […]

Somewhere along the line I alluded to the fact that there was at least one US-based person involved in the Lightning Maroon auctions who had the foresight to obtain wild PNG Maroon Clownfish from Scott Fellman at Unique Corals with the express intent of  using them as mates for the offspring from this project.  I […]