The Lightning Project

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

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Just went downstairs…all but one offspring in Spawn #20 is dead on the bottom.  !#%!#!!@!! Water test shows completely off the wall parameters…eg. Nitrite at 5 PPM, Ammonia at 0.5 ppm, Nitrate at 40 ppm?!.  Now, whether that’s all the dead fish in the tank, or if that’s the cause, I’m not sure, but I’m […]

2 AM Thanksgiving morning and I’m closing out the fishroom.  All but 2 of the babies from Spawn #15 are dead on the bottom of the 10 gallon tank.  No warning, only hours earlier everything was fine.  I moved the two still alive (one white stripe, one lightning) to an empty tank on the larviculture […]