The Lightning Project

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

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I’m a man of my word; Mike reared a good batch with Spawn #27, and tonight, new photos of the ORA Gold Nugget Maroon Clownfish in Rhinelander (LiveAquaria’s Diver’s Den) were posted.  The fish looked good, and being on sale from $499.99 to only $349.99, it was time to honor my end of the bargain. […]

On 5/21/2014, initially the hatch didn’t appear so good, but by afternoon, it was clear I had a solid hatch with hundreds in the BRT. I checked the tile, looked like 50% had hatched perhaps, so I let it go in the BRT overnight again, with only ambient light.  THAT might have been a mistake, […]

I noticed the F0 White Stripe PNG Maroon Clown pair acting oddly back on 2/16/2014.  Upon closer examination, I discovered this small nest…they’re second, spawned on the back of a large diameter PVC section.  Of course, disturbing the next allowed the Declevis Butterflyfish they live with to eat it….figures.  I’m thinking about removing all the […]

First posted at Reef Builders on February 3rd, 2014. Sea & Reef Aquaculture announced the release of their new PNG-lineage “Morse Code” Maroon Clownfish, Premnas biaculeatus. Lovers of the Lightning Maroon Clownfish, or for that matter any of the unusual Maroon Clownfish that came out of Papua New Guinea (PNG) from SEASMART or the later […]

Just went downstairs…all but one offspring in Spawn #20 is dead on the bottom.  !#%!#!!@!! Water test shows completely off the wall parameters…eg. Nitrite at 5 PPM, Ammonia at 0.5 ppm, Nitrate at 40 ppm?!.  Now, whether that’s all the dead fish in the tank, or if that’s the cause, I’m not sure, but I’m […]

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 […]

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!

Walked into the fishroom Thursday night and saw something on the floor that didn’t belong there… Upon closer inspection… It would appear that White Stripe #12, aka. WS12, had some suicidal tendencies. Now, before I get a bunch of nasty or snide comments about how I should be using covers on my tanks, you probably […]

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 […]

I’ve invited all winning bidders from the Blue Zoo Aquatics Lightning Maroon Clownfish auctions to share updates here on the Lightning Project’s website to allow me and others to keep track of the offspring after thye’ve left my care. Susan Ingold of S & R Clownfish sent an update and a few images of WS8 […]