The Lightning Project

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

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So this amounts to a chronological retelling of the story to date, this time with photos, starting  a couple weeks back now.  Perhaps not in as much detail as my minute-by-minute updates, but a good overview of the run to date. June 21st, 2012 The ongoing health problems with the Lightning Maroon remained, and the […]

I am still owing the world a full post, but in the interest if simply keeping you all relatively updated, here’s some short tidbits. Based on an egg photo count, there was 310 eggs on the tile and all hatched.  There have been some larval losses, but that is to be expected.  Mike Doty did […]

Shot in the very wee hours of the morning on 6/29/2012:

So not sure how much I’ve conveyed, but the jist was that I had an artificial incubation hatch last night. Once hatched, I tinted the water (about 5 gallons of broodstock water) green with Reed Mariculture’s RotiGreen Nanno (a frozen algae paste specifically made for use in greenwater technique).  It took about 20 drops.  I […]