The Lightning Project

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

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So, Tuesday night, guess who spent the night in the tank? That’s right, the little male PNG Maroon. No additional damage, but the little male was banished to the area between the specimen cup and the glass of the tank…only “safe place” for him. On the one hand, happy it wasn’t dead…this is a big […]

As promised, finally, the process of pairing up the Lightning Maroon with a known male PNG Maroon is finally underway. To put it bluntly, without a doubt I am convinced that for the last year, the Lightning Maroon has been male.  Why?  Well, first, watch this video of the female Gold Stripe Maroon that used […]

Real quickly, I have tons of videos uploading to Youtube but they’re taking all freakin’ day (I shot a lot this weekend). Lots of interesting stuff on the pairing front coming. In the meantime, I’m doing a water test…here’s where we sit: Temp (Neptune) – 79.5F pH (Seachem) – 8.2 pH (Neptune) – 8.25 Alkalinity […]

Short and sweet, after being gone for almost a week, and preparing to transfer in a mate this weekend, I thought I should take a quick snapshot of my water quality. pH – 8.2 Alkalinity – 4.25 meq/L Calcium – 420 ppm Magnesium – 1170 ppm Nitrate – approximately 2.5-5 ppm. I’m continuing to dose […]

This is why aquarists don’t like going out of town: And yet, I still have an upcoming trip to talk at PNWMAS this weekend.  Since I am only now really recovered from  truly abnormal overtime (I think I worked a month’s worth of hours in the first half of the month?) I figured I at […]

Apparently the Lightning Maroon thinks it is a better decorator than me.  With the help of its three Turbo snail buddies, every frag in the tank is getting tossed around, overturned, and generally abused.  The Lightning has taken a shining to an Aussie Green Goniopora frag, but frankly this Goniopora isn’t big enough to host […]

Pretty straightforward.  It’s been 5 days since I came home and panicked at a missing Lightning Maroon.  I honestly couldn’t bear to take pictures of it all shredded up, but thankfully most has healed and it is only the spine dorsal damage that remains…will it heal is anyone’s guess. I’ve been “practicing” pairing Maroons in […]

It’s now 1:00 AM on March 2nd.  The reason you hadn’t heard about the February 28th planned move of the Lightning Maroon into the new final digs is that it didn’t happen yet.  Short and sweet – left Thursday for Dallas and Next Wave (put on by DFWMAS).  The plan was to be back on […]

Tested again this morning – Calcium on the Salifert was down to 425 ppm and that was after another day’s worth of dosing 3 X .25 ml/gallon of C-Balance.  Hmm.  Did I just use 10 ppm of calcium overnight, or is it really just that there’s a certain margin of error with the test kit?  […]

I’m continuing to get the tank “dialed in” as they say.  Thursday and Friday I dosed the tank 3 times per day with .25 ML / gallon (6 ML) of each C-Balance 2-part solution.  Thursday evening, Jay stopped by and brought his Salifert test kit for Magnesium.  We ran it side by side with my […]