The Lightning Project

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

Browsing Posts tagged LxL Spawn #5

As promised, I finally got time to look at the offspring that Mike Doty had managed to rear from my F1 Lightning X Lighting Maroon Clownfish pair.  While Mike had initially stated he felt the split was 50/50, today’s visit showed something different. All told, I only managed to count 3 white stripe offspring in […]

Here’s a quick rundown. The 5th spawn of the F1 Lightning X Lightning Maroon Clownfish pairing was collected and hatched by Mike Doty while I was away.  In short, he scraped off the eggs, hatched them in a 1 gallon jar in a water bath with simple aeration, 75% clean new water.  Come November 28th, […]

Just jotting down notes…Spawn #45 of the wild Lightning Maroon pair happened on the evening of 11-19-2014.  Meanwhile, LxL (the F1 Lightning Pair) Spawn #5 was gone by the same day….they obviously didn’t like me tiling their entire tank. I need to go by more terra cotta flowerpots…maybe they’ll like that.

So much going on and I’m NOT doing a proper job of tracking things. I should start with the unrelated F0 PNG White Stripe Maroon Clownfish pair…they spawned sometime last week, possibly Wednesday the 12th. I didn’t make much of a fuss about documentation of it because I knew I couldn’t deal with them at […]