[e_baer]

YouTube - clown fish

[gramesy777]

thats insane lol

[reefcouple]

pretty wild so was the eggs 1....

thanks

[CyberJester]

This is my 1st time watching a clown orgy. I don't know what to thing!

[rlcline76]

I feel sorta dirty.
Watch now that I saw that, I will have to cleanout my temp files, cookies and so forth so that I do not get attacked with marine porn images every time I turn on the computer! It would crowd out the other porn...lol

[Chili]

weird.. they are doing it?

[72fishboy]

dude that's crazy. i was down at ORCA (can't remember the abr.) in Mote Marine Fla and i saw millions of clowns in their breeding facility. i'm not kiddin, they were so conditioned to people that they would all swim to the end of there holding tank. i was going to fill my pockets but i had to sail back to NC. Didn’t think they’d make it.

[thelastmucci]

that video is CRAZY.

[cappy290]

Thats a pretty cool looking site.

[capitalb]

Actually!!! LOL

[JackedupSOB]

that is pretty funny

[stacef]

That's absolutely nuts, thanks for sharing!

[crxman]

ya my wife wants to get a large tang and put only clowns in there. they go into a ball like that at night. in our 75gal she got 5 clowns and at night they go into a ball like in that vid.

[capitalb]

I just had another hatch last night but only took a few hundred.I'm out of room! My ball of fish is getting enormous.I have well over a thousand clowns but the problem is,a lot of them are misbarred.I sell most of the perfect ones to the lfs and wholesalers. I am in the process of trying to determine why some entire hatches are misbarred and others are not.I think it has to do with the parents health and stress factor.If anyone needs a school of clowns,or just a pair,let me know!

[gramesy777]

what kind of clowns do you have?

[capitalb]

I have false perculas but I'm looking for a pair of snowflake clowns.I also have baby mandarins at about 6 weeks old.

[gimmito]

Cool video elliot. I understand clowns only do the "ball" in captivity and not in the wild.

[gimmito]

Originally Posted by capitalb

I have false perculas but I'm looking for a pair of snowflake clowns.I also have baby mandarins at about 6 weeks old.

Capitalb,

What do you feed your clown fry ? The baby mandarins ? Any pic's ?

Aren't snowflake clowns seriously expensive ?

[capitalb]

The clown larvae can only survive on rotifers.They are missing the necessary enzymes to break down food.The rotifers have the enzymes so therefore break themselves down in the clowns stomachs.Pretty cool huh!My mandarins eat infusoria, a bacteria present in established systems but I'm trying to figure out how to make more in a seperate culture to increase the density.Snowflake clowns are the most expensive and therefore the most profitable to breed. I have plenty of pics of both but can't figure out how to post them. I'm better with fish than I am with computers!

[gimmito]

I've heard copepods are more nutricious than rotifers...Have you ever tried culturing them ?

Try Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket... if I can do it anybody can.

[plecosword]

Woa those clowns are crazy!

[capitalb]

Rotifers have the necessary enzymes and are as nutritious as the food they eat.The larvae consume about 1500 rotifers each per day.I'm feeding about 500 larvae right now.Rotifers are the perfect size and swim slow enough for the clownfish to catch without expending too much energy. Rotifers also swim near the surface where the clownfish feed.Copepods hang out on the bottom.If the copepods swam slow enough,hung out at the top,and had the enzymes needed,I don't think I could achieve the proper density.(Approx. three quarters of a million a day) Out of the 500 larval fish I took on friday,I haven't lost 1. Rotis are very easy to culture.As long as it works....I won't try to fix it.

[gimmito]

Point taken. I remember listening to rob weatherly over at Talkingreef. He also raises clowns and uses rotifer cultures, but mentioned trying copepods b/c of their nutritional value.

[capitalb]

Gimmito,
I just sent you an E-mail regarding pics. Can't figure out what to do with the pics I uploaded...Here or there.

[gimmito]

Capitalb,

After you upload... you should see your pic's. Copy and paste "direct link" onto your quick reply message here on rb. It should show up.