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ChunksInClemson
03/06/2006, 08:15 PM
Are F. Percs the easiest to breed? I have a 90 under construction and I want to breed some clowns.
UnderwaterExotic
03/06/2006, 08:17 PM
I would say that there are many fish that are easy to breed. The question is keeping the fry alive! If i were you i would also make sure i bought a bred pair! I have seen some clown pairs up to 800.00 a pair!
ChunksInClemson
03/06/2006, 08:18 PM
what about the ocelaris? Would you consider that an easy one to start?
UnderwaterExotic
03/06/2006, 08:20 PM
I would dare say from what i have heard and read, yes! Many of the clowns are said to be the easiest!
ChunksInClemson
03/06/2006, 08:20 PM
Where could i go about getting a bred pair like you speak of?
UnderwaterExotic
03/06/2006, 08:22 PM
I have seen bred pairs before on Phishybusiness.com and on reefscience.com!
UnderwaterExotic
03/06/2006, 08:24 PM
If more people would chime in to help, we could get some answers from the people that do breed on RC!
ChunksInClemson
03/06/2006, 08:24 PM
ok, i still have a couple more questions. And by the way, thanks for the quick responses! I kinda want to breed the black ocellaris. Are they harder than the common one?
UnderwaterExotic
03/06/2006, 08:25 PM
Im not sure about that? I have never heard of a black occelaris, which dosent mean there are none, i have just heard of the black perculas!
ChunksInClemson
03/06/2006, 08:27 PM
oops, i made a mistake. Thats what i meant, the black percs. How hard is it to actually raise the fry?
UnderwaterExotic
03/06/2006, 08:28 PM
I am really not sure about that! That is what has steered me away from doing it, because i have heard the fry were hard to raise!
ChunksInClemson
03/06/2006, 08:32 PM
How big of a tank would i need to get to raise the fry?
UnderwaterExotic
03/06/2006, 08:33 PM
Im not really sure.. An awesome book that i have on clownfish is CLOWNFISHES by Joyce Wilkerson! HTH
tmays
03/06/2006, 10:07 PM
If you want to breed clown fish, the first thing you should do is get all the info you can on line or read all the books you can get your hands on. The book he recomended is a very good book and it is easy to understand. This forum alone is full of good knowledge and people full of good info. Do all the research you can on the fish that you plan to breed and also how to rear the fry once they do breed. That will be the real challenge! by the way, the so called f. perc is A. ocellaris, and yes there is a black strain of ocellaris from the Darwin area of Australia. I wish you the best of luck!!!