Breeding Saltwater fish
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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
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
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.
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.
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 
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.
Lol, I've also bred mollies in a marine set up.
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
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