The Lightning Project

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

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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 […]

I have photos of this spawn stashed away in the camera, but I figured I better get this on the books before I completely forget. Spawn #19 was put down on 12-14.  With tons of stuff going on with the holidays, I did a boneheaded thing and pulled the nest on the night of the […]

I cannot catch a break. Seriously 2013, for all its hard work, has yielded only FOUR (4!!!!) offspring from the Lightning Maroon pair that will grow to be marketable size in 2014! Spawn #18 was put down on November 28th. This put hatch night as early as Wed, December 4rd, but more likely the 5th, […]

I can only guess what happened, but the eggs were there last night (night of the 12th) and were still there the morning of the 13th.  So I went down around lights out tonight on 11-13 to pull the tile..and the eggs are gone.  No larvae anywhere, which would suggest the hatch happened much earlier […]

Back on track it would seem…Spawn #14 appears to have completed metamorphosis.  Despite good care, and seemingly good success, I can’t estimate more than 25-30 offspring. Spawn #15 didn’t hatch as planned…only 2 babies the first night.  Small hatch the next night, and possibly more the following night.  Hard to tell how many larvae there […]

Per my last post, the start of the week saw the spawning of the 15th batch, although I wasn’t around to see it.  So I’m having to guess on the spawn date.  I *thought* about pulling the eggs on Saturday night; this would have been 6 days (144 hours) post spawn, had they been laid […]

Tonight is the anticipated hatch night for spawn #14.  It’s a smaller clutch…probably only a few hundred eggs to hatch, and it might have partially hatched earlier in the day or even last night.  I set them up in the 10 gallon tank with blacked out sides, using 50% new water and 50% broodstock water. […]

So I pulled spawn #13 tonight…1 AM on 9-30-2013….since #13 was spawned on 9/24/2013, I really should have pulled on the night of 9/30/2013…which would be Monday night, not the wee-early morning hours of Monday as I type this. What will this do?  Well, my other scatterbrained move was to once again apply a hydrogen […]

So, a total hatch.  Last night, before lights out, there was ONE larvae swimming around and a scattering of dead eggs on the bottom.  I checked at 7 AM (up to get the kids out the door every day now) and shazam – a full hatch. There was less than 20 eggs on the tile, […]

Despite all the crazy effort last night to prep for a hatch on spawn #12, it’s now 10:20 AM and nothing has hatched.  We are definitely past 144 hours post spawn…based on hatch times from prior clutches they should have hatched, but the 6+ day incubation time always seems short.  So hopefully I didn’t kill […]