The Lightning Project

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

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So last week I was busy busy busy; wrapping up the Banggai Recue Book and off to the MBI workshop.  Sometime last week, in the chaos, the Lightning Maroon pair spawned, a nice big nest in their new tile home. Of course, chaos this week continued, another book to edit, another freelance gig, and when […]

So the suspicions are true, these two Lightning Maroons are destined to become a pair! The story was published moments ago on Reefs.com – details are being kept quiet, but according to Reefs.com, the purchaser’s plans are to “keep the fish in their 120 gallon tank as the centerpiece of their show tank.  The buyer was […]

I’ll let the recipients decide when and how they’d like to share their new arrivals who are in transit as I type this.  Some more genetic material has left the building.  Here’s the pair of fish that went to destination #1 tonight.  

Finally, some risk is diversified again.  The second of 3 locally-planned backup pairs is out of the house, this time going to Frank (who you may remember contributed the massive “Labrador” Maroon Clown to this project way back in the day).  Frank is an aquarist who’s in it for the long haul, so you know […]

You may recall that the first pair of Lightning offspring “left the nest” a while back to help serve as a genetic repository and safeguard should something happen here at my house.  Well, this morning, Mike (who you may recall played an integral part in rearing these babies for the first few days of their […]

You knew it would happen, I said it would happen.  You can’t keep this much electricity locked up without having to get some discharged. And so it comes to pass that last Thursday, October 11th, the first two offspring of the Lightning Maroon left my basement and traveled 4 blocks away to Mike’s house.  One […]