The Lightning Project

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

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The past 48 hours have seen a lot of progress.  Real Reef Live Rock arrived from Fish Heads on Tuesday.  Tuesday evening, Nick and I spent a lot of time in the basement aquascaping before coming to rest on our 5th or 6th main iteration.  Then we assembled it, brought it upstairs, added in about […]

Strange how the weekend can just get away from you.  Kept saying I was going to add the sand, add the water, add the Labrador Maroon, but it never happened.  At this point, I may just wait – Live Rock is due to arrive Tuesday, so might as well aquascape it while dry at this […]

Cat officially out of the bag, just before 11:00 AM this morning, as I sat here in my boxers on a chilly MLK Day holiday, a big thump on our front porch got the dog in attack mode.  FedEx was here, dropping off boxes.  Big Boxes.  Boxes that said “FRAGILE” and had “ECOXOTIC” on the […]

Anyone who’s been following The Lighting Project or has an interest in Lightning Maroon Clownfishes probably knows that SEASMART fishers were responsible for the two specimens collected in the waters of Papua New Guinea.As released moments ago @ ReefBuilders, the official word today is that EcoEZ’s SEASMART sustainable marine fish collection operations in PNG suffered […]

Just a real quick update. Late last week I had a holding tank crash out on me, and in the process, one of the spare “PNG” Maroons, the only single one, was killed. I’ve been battling the cold here in this new basement setup – ich has been running rampant as heaters are either failing […]

So consider this your introduction to one of the other several Papua New Guinea (PNG)  Maroon Clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus) running around my basement these days.  I was taking some pictures for a forthcoming article in the new UK magazine Marine Habitat and I wanted to show up a “sustainably” harvested fish…thus, images of a SEASMART […]

Yeah…this is one of those times where no news is relatively good news. I’m in need of some Lightning Maroon Clownfish updates! Where to begin? How about the new pair of Maroon Clowns I got from Greg a while back. He had them spawning, but they’ve yet to spawn since arriving…I picked them up from […]

So, two totally unrelated comments to make quickly tonight.  First, I really think my suspicions of a fin nipper are correct.  Why?  Because a new chunk showed up missing from the TOP of the Lightning Maroon’s right pectoral fin.  I’d be a lot more worried if there wasn’t also a chunk missing from the tail […]

So…another day goes by and I’ve noticed the following – not only has the Lightning Maroon’s right pectoral fin become damaged, but so has his right ventral/pelvic fin.  It looks to be about the same age as the other damage judging by the condition.  Neither appear to be fresh, and nothing seems to have spread.  […]

So it’s been over a week since the Lightning Maroon’s first date.  I left for MACNA XXII in Orlando Wednesday night (9-1), and returned on Sunday (9-5).   Between then, my wife cared for the tanks for a day, and then my good friend Jay took over for Friday-Sunday. So Jay told me that our little […]