Breeding Saltwater fish

[piranha45]

are there any saltwater fish that can be bred in the aquarium? if so, what ones come to mind? any special conditions necessary, aside from male + female?

[evilcat]

as far I know, there are a couple varieties of clown that are now readily bred in captivity, both the tomato and the percula come to mind; there are also a couple of farms in Florida that are propagating many different types of corals.

[rayman45]

clowns can
dwarf fuzzy loins i heard were bred for the frist time a year ago

wow thats it ask some one who know better on s/w lol

[fishing4exotics]

I know Seahorses, Mandarin goby, and clown fish have been captive bred. I always try to go to the local fish clubs when the topic is about saltwater fish/invert breeding. It doesn't seem too difficult to breed saltwater fish. However, trying to keep the fry alive is tricky. The fry need a supply of food small enough to consume.

[guppy]

midshipmen.some sculpin, both needing chilled tanks, a prof. used to raise them. Clingfish in tanks with sand bottoms and eelgrass or turtle grass. Feed them like dwarf seahorses or mandarins. They are forgiving about water conditions and temp. They are also tiny and cute and lay relatively large eggs stuck to the grass. You can keep abuot a half dozen in a well areated room temperature 30g tank. I used to keep a pair of korean ones with some rock wrack and a few glass shrimp in a 5g glass jar. They laid eggs a couple of times but the shrimp ate them. I got everthing out of a rocky tide pool on Che Ju island. Here in the U.S. the best places to find them are in the grass beds but there are several kinds including one that looks like a verticly striped guy that lools like a long nosed boxfish but only 1 1/4" long max. It lives in deeper water and likes shell beds like mussels.

[bluedempsey]

i have a pair in a 150 (true perc.) that breed all the time. they never make it though their picked off by other fish :(

[PredatoryFishMagazine]

I have a pair of maroon clowns that breed for me all the time. I have them in a 50 gallon tank (36" long, 18" wide, 20" tall) with 65 lbs of fiji live rock. I use a 50/50 mixture of aragonite sand and florida crushed coral as a substrate. For a filter I use Marineland's Magnum 350 BIO-PRO system, I also run a SeaClone 100 (protein skimmer). I don't have any other fish in the tank with them, all I have is their host anemone (a bubble-tip anemone aka bulb anemone) and an assorted mixture of snails and crabs.

Lol, I've also bred mollies in a marine set up. :headbang2

[CentralMayhem]

there are tons of gobys being bred, most clowns, quite a few dwarf angels, pseudochromis spp. just very hard to raise the larvae cause they go through a planktonic stage and all require very small and sometimes hard to provide foods. most being bred are not at someones home. the will spawn in a home aquarium but it is highly unlikely you could raise the fry. most are bred at public aquariums like the waikiki aquarium

[atwabn]

clowns are bred quite often in the hometank. theres an art to it...by the time i got my fry to live more than a week i was fed up with the process, theres a good book by joyce wilkerson called oddly enough "Clownfishes" book has everything you need to know about the difficult task of breeding and growing out clowns

[piranha45]

the fry are very fragile eh? is it difficult to get the adults to mate?

[PredatoryFishMagazine]

It's not hard to get them to mate if you provide the proper settup and good water conditions. It's raising the fry that's the hard part.

theres a good book by joyce wilkerson called oddly enough "Clownfishes" book has everything you need to know about the difficult task of breeding and growing out clowns


I highly recommend this book also. It's the same book I use as a reference when I need to double check something about my maroon clowns.

[mpgleisten]

i have a pair of percula clowns in a 26 right now and asked around about breeding them. short answer was that the fry are very hard to keep alive and feed. but they will breed constantly.

[bluedempsey]

it's hard to keep the fry alive
because u need a constant sourse of
food
they feed primarily on plankton " live"

so you need a constant supply of planton
if you go to seaworld in cali u can ask to see
their warehouse where they raise all sorts of marine
fish

when i open my saltwater store they gave me a tour!
they had catsharks ..(their pups)
mandarin gobys
a million clown.. all types

pretty interesting stuff
:drool:

[guppy]

the fry are very fragile eh? is it difficult to get the adults to mate?
Naw, a little candlelight and champagne...

[bluedempsey]

Naw, a little candlelight and champagne...
i wish i'd be filthy rich
:cheers:

[paintboi101]

eeeeeeeeee, salts going to be harrd.

[ogre929]

breeding cardinals is pretty easy. they are mouth brooders and come out decent sized eating baby bring shrimp! and they're easy to sex too!