The Lightning Project

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

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White Stripe Spawn #3 seems to have hatched earlier than expected.  I was looking at the tank on Saturday, 9-13, which would’ve been the day to pull the tile, but the eggs were already gone.  So they may well be on a 5 day schedule?! Meanwhile, Lightning Maroon Spawn #40 was laid on 9-10-2014.  I’ll […]

I skipped worrying about the hatch on the last spawn…we simply have too much going on in our lives at the moment to effectively start rearing a batch of clownfish this week.  Meanwhile, on 9/7/2014, the White Stripe Maroons, the unrelated F0 pairing, put down another nest, but small.  I’ve yet to see a really […]

I discovered spawn #38 around 10 PM on 7-28-2014.  Typical big orange spawn on the sloped ceiling tile.

It felt like this one took a long time to happen; spawn #37 was laid this afternoon by the Lightning Maroon Clownfish and her white stripe mate, 7-12-2014. That is all…

Mike didn’t have a good hatch over the weekend on Spawn #35; I believe temperature issues were to blame.  Spawn #36 was laid on the afternoon of Thursday, June 26th, 2014.  If all goes according to plan that makes next Wednesday “hatch night”. Spawn #34 was a failure…I had run low on rotifers due to […]

Before I forget – sometime on the afternoon of April 30th, 2014, Spawn #31 was laid.  That is all 😉

Yeah, spawn #30 was laid on 4-18-2014; I noticed it in the evening when feeding.  Large pale-orange batch on the far end of the vertical tile in their “tile tepee”.  That’s all.

I left for Reef Currents this past weekend in Houston, hosted by MARSH, and well, it was the typical dice roll of being a speaker…some things will be fine, and some things just won’t work out.  BTW, it was a great event – thanks for having me guys! Spawn #24 never really hatched.  Despite being […]

I have two posts besides this one I need to make…life has just been hectic as usual. They’ll come. First, Spawn #24 has been laid.  Sadly, it wasn’t a Valentine’s spawn, it was laid on February 13th, 2014. Following my extensive water testing of larval tanks to see what the heck was going on, I […]

Just a quick note that Lightning Maroon pair put down their 23rd nest yesterday afternoon.  Spawn #23 was laid 1/31/2014.