The Lightning Project

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

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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 […]

So I was gone for only 24 hours….24 HOURS, and I come back to find that the fry from Spawn #8 are gone.  Not sick, not dying, not dead.  GONE.  As in VANISHED.  As in “NO BODIES”.  Honestly I have no clue what’s going on there…it was a small group, probably less than 10, with […]

What’s it going to take to get a good batch of Lightning Maroons to hatch out?  Seriously! So you’ll probably know that I’ve been having problems both in timing the pulling of the nest, as well as split hatches and/or eggs dying if pulled prematurely.  While it seems that eggs are often ready to hatch […]

Time to start watching eBay again; be sure to add Blue Zoo Aquatics to your list of favorite sellers!  From the latest auctions: “…it is now time to release for sale the next 6 Lightning Maroon Clownfish. After nearly 3 years of toil, trouble and extreme dedication, breeder Matt Pedersen is proud to offer to […]

Just a quick note this evening. First, anyone care to guess what it means when this shows up in Duluth, MN? The big news though is some changes to the inventory page of offspring.  In the past couple weeks I’ve added in some of the offspring that I gave away, and I’ll get the other […]

So yes, there was a spawn I posted a photo of back on July 31st; spawn #8; this was the one they put down on July 29th. I didn’t run the larval snagger on the night of August 5th as I had hoped, because I still don’t have mine back from it being lent out […]

Two photos shot tonight in the fishroom – one is the pair on their latest spawn, and the other is my personal favorite holdback, the one I’m using to document pattern development 😉  Enjoy!    

So 8 days definitely would have been the right call.  I’m going to heed this warning to myself on the next spawn. On 7-26-2013, there was definitely a hatch of offspring.  Somewhere between 25 and 50 larvae had hatched out, but the REST OF THE NEST remained unhatched. By the morning of 7-27-2013, what I […]

Every bit of data I have says “8 days to hatch”. I went back and looked…every spawn I tracked, 8 days. Eg. if a spawn occured on the evening of the 1st, it will hatch after lights out on the night of the 9th. Everything suggests that. So it’s an incredibly tense evening after MISSING […]