The Lightning Project

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

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PNG fish are certainly taking center stage right now; between Lightning Maroon Clownfish babies, and the new introduction of sustainably-collected PNG fish from EcoAquariums PNG via UniqueCorals.com, there is no shortage of news on the PNG front.  The speculation about what Lightning Maroon Clown offspring will sell for hasn’t abated, and to that end, I […]

So we’ve all but forgotten about the original Lightning Maroon, so I figured it was time to first step back and see how she’s faring.  Sadly, the Baytril-laced feeds do not appear to have had any effect.  About 18 days ago, we switched from the Repashy Gel to soaking Spectrum Thera Pellets with 0.05 ML […]

More photos, these from 7-27-2012:

The next batch of images, these from 7-20-2012:

The next batch of photos from a day later, on 7-18-2012:

So I’ve been busy, nothing else really to it, just busy.  I’ve been remiss in posting up some photos of the Lightning Maroon Clownfish offspring as they’ve been developing.  I’ll be posting up  a large collection of shots from the past couple weeks, and we’ll start with: 7-17-2012

Steven Paul is the PNG fisherman responsible for collecting the illustrious Lightning Maroon Clownfish.  With the new EcoAquariums PNG now in full swing, Dan Navin has been proud to show off the unprecedented level of transparency and traceability of marine aquarium fishes collected in Papua New Guinea.  With that transparency comes a narrowing of the gap; I […]

…and this is how it will go down. OK, the fact that lightning maroon clownfish shows up as the 4th and last auto-fill option for “lightning” already has me impressed.  Pat yourselves on the back fellow aquarists – you’re obviously searching enough that this is now a relevant and popular search term!  But it gets […]

These fish just keep getting better and better. I have tons of images, but I can’t wait until I can actually get really good images for everyone to see. I’m sure some people may be wondering why the images are so “crappy”. Well, I’m shooting without a macro lens for starters. But there’s also something […]

…I will name this one Tesla.  12 days post hatch.  Already mean as snot and fighting in the tub.