LitzmanMarine’s Clownfish Breeding Room (1 Viewer)

LitzmanMarine · Mar 23, 2019

Just a teaser for the start of my fish room. Ignore the mess. That room is being patched and repainted soon, including new flooring. This is the frame for one of my Clownfish breeding setups. It holds 32 ten gallon tanks. Everything will be run off sponge filters, with basic LED tube lights overhead. Bulkheads will dump from each tank to a collection pipe that angles across the room to the drain. Potentially the room will hold three of these racks with two large coral low boys in a cubby. Also started collecting parts for the auto top off.

Cody · Mar 24, 2019

Have you drilled a 10 gallon tank before?

LitzmanMarine · Mar 24, 2019

Cody said:
Have you drilled a 10 gallon tank before?

A dozen or so in my old breeder setup. It’s been a few years has anything changed with the glass thickness/quality? Been out of the hobby since 2013 but finally situated in our house and able to get back to it.

Cody · Mar 24, 2019

LitzmanMarine said:
A dozen or so in my old breeder setup. It’s been a few years has anything changed with the glass thickness/quality? Been out of the hobby since 2013 but finally situated in our house and able to get back to it.

Yeah I ask because maybe the thickness has changed. I just know that I tried drilling glass with similar thickness a few years ago and cracked some panes. Just take it slow and easy.

TX_Punisher · Mar 25, 2019

What types of clowns are you raising? Have the breeding pair already?

LitzmanMarine · Mar 25, 2019

I have:

Wyoming Whites
Frostbites
Mocha Davincis
Davincis
Snowflakes
Darwins

As soon as the room is up and running I’m going to order more including Black Storms and Orange Storms.

Only two of my pairs are breeding right now, I run the tanks cold 78-79, so they aren’t reproducing right now. Toss in some LRS Fertility Frenzy and turn the temp to 81-82 and they start dropping eggs again.

Cody · Mar 26, 2019

LitzmanMarine said:
I have:

Wyoming Whites
Frostbites
Mocha Davincis
Davincis
Snowflakes
Darwins

As soon as the room is up and running I’m going to order more including Black Storms and Orange Storms.

Only two of my pairs are breeding right now, I run the tanks cold 78-79, so they aren’t reproducing right now. Toss in some LRS Fertility Frenzy and turn the temp to 81-82 and they start dropping eggs again.

I've always thought the breeding process is very interesting. I've had clowns lay eggs before but nothing ever hatched. Thankfully they didn't, otherwise I'd have a mess of clowns on my hands. What the heck are you gonna do with all those clowns?

LitzmanMarine · Mar 26, 2019

Cody said:
I've always thought the breeding process is very interesting. I've had clowns lay eggs before but nothing ever hatched. Thankfully they didn't, otherwise I'd have a mess of clowns on my hands. What the heck are you gonna do with all those clowns?

Quite a few of them will be available here for MARSH members, but I have several stores/wholesalers that will handle the majority. Luckily I can control the output of the system easily so I wont be over run with little clowns. Most of the tanks are grow outs, looking to breed for specific traits, health, and overall quality.

LitzmanMarine · Mar 26, 2019

Also planning to offer up trades of mature clowns for babies. Noticed many people that end up with clowns that are super aggressive towards new comers to their tanks. I'll take your mature fish and trade you for babies so that you wont have the territorial issues. Usually the territorial issues can be resolved by rearranging the tank but many people end up with fixed hardscapes that they cant or dont want to rearrange so this would give those folks another option.

chris85 · Mar 26, 2019

What are you going to be feeding the fry? Have you tried wild plankton?

Are you going to be doing any videos?

Have you done any others?

Can you give us more details on how it will be done? (From getting broodstock ready to ready to selling)

I know it is a bunch to ask, but I think it will benefit anyone looking to have some fun with there fishy friends..I for one would appreciate it and if you are wanting to try some others( just for the experience, but not for profit... sorry they will be wild caught and I don't have broodstock permits yet). I will catch some for you and donate them to you?

LitzmanMarine · Mar 26, 2019

chris85 said:
What are you going to be feeding the fry? Have you tried wild plankton?

Are you going to be doing any videos?

Have you done any others?

Can you give us more details on how it will be done? (From getting broodstock ready to ready to selling)

I know it is a bunch to ask, but I think it will benefit anyone looking to have some fun with there fishy friends..I for one would appreciate it and if you are wanting to try some others( just for the experience, but not for profit... sorry they will be wild caught and I don't have broodstock permits yet). I will catch some for you and donate them to you?

I culture Rotifers for my fry, nervous about bringing in anything wild as it could contaminate and wipe out the fry. Luckily with how this setup is designed there isn't an opportunity for cross contamination so it could be something to look into for supplemental or secondary option. Haven't read or heard of anyone doing it.

I will be doing lots of videos as the room comes together a little more. They would be boring right now and wouldn't have a lot to do with fish currently.

Have I done any others? Fish? Freshwaster (mostly livebearers) when I was younger (early teens) and about 5 years ago I had a successful clownfish breeding setup running before I had to move and tear everything down.

I'll give more details in the future preferably in video but at this point clownfish are pretty straight forward. Once I get the initial tanks setup I'll do a quick video to explain the general idea of my system.

About the only thing you're catching that I think I could breed would be some of the Blenny species, and maybe pipefish. Pretty sure I could get the anemones to propagate as well. Trying to think if we have any native dwarf angelfish that might be possible to breed as well, those would require larger tanks but still possible.

I'd have to do a little research on our blennies but that actually seems like it might be a fun project. We have three species here correct?

chris85 · Mar 26, 2019

Just curious on the wild plankton I have had good success with it.

I just like to see how everyone sets up their breeding system incase I might see something I can take advantage of.

We have like 8 species of blennies here. Only four of them are really common. The rest you have to get certain times of the year.

You could probably do blennies the same way, they are not that hard.

I was also talking about peppermint shrimp and a couple other inverts along with the fish.

I don't think we get any dwarf angels except maybe when the sargassum comes in. You never know.

Just a thought and keep us posted please.

Thanks and happy reefing!!

LitzmanMarine · Apr 14, 2019

Little more progress made. Lights are mounted, they are just T5 LED Single strips. Two above each row. Need to order more for the bottom row but going to wait till I started working on my 20 gallon rack. Since these are just clownfish breeder tanks they dont care what sort of light they have over them as long as they have light. These were cheap and I've used them in the past with no major issues.

Started painting the walls (not done at all as you can see in the pictures). Just moved the rack to see what its going to look like. Pardon the mess.

Should finish painting tonight and will get ready to paint the floor next weekend. Need to finish drilling all of the tanks and painting them. Three sides will be painted black and the bottoms will be painted white. I do not use substrate in my breeding tanks.

I'm not going to worry about the water change and drainage at first as I need to get this system set up ASAP.

Electricity still needs to be rewired for this room but expect that to take me a couple of hours to run as everything will be in the ceiling for this room.

Will be making a breeding log entry in the Breeding forum shortly as there are some updates there as well.

Reefahholic · Apr 23, 2019

Very nice sir! Perfect breeder station.

LitzmanMarine · Apr 23, 2019

Reefahholic said:
Very nice sir! Perfect breeder station.

Hopefully soon. Its been a slow process and I moved a tank I had been cycling for a frag tank into the breeding room as well and that took up most of last weekend. I did make a little leeway. The secondary A/C unit is installed for the summer but I need to insulate a few spots.

LitzmanMarine · May 11, 2019

So just a few updates. I've begun drilling with mixed luck, but havent lost any tanks just not 100% as clean as I would like. I have four of the 10 gallons running. Two are cycled and my QT/Growout pairs are now in them. Second two are cycling now and I plan to move two of my breeding pairs into them when they finish. Only 28 more tanks to finish...

Next up is the 50g low boy I was planning to use as a frag tank. A MARSH member was selling some lightning maroon clownfish and anemones and since the tank was cycled and had been running for months I figured I'd try my luck. The female maroon is 5-6" and they are very active. Had some rough luck with the anemones including one getting sucked up by a powerhead despite having a prefilter on the intake side. I've remedied this problem and the anemones are doing great now. May place a clay pot/tile near the anemones and see if I can get them to start laying eggs but really just enjoying them right now. Also have a Power Brown Tang (moving to my display tank when its a little bigger), coral banded shrimp, emerald crab, dozen or so hermits and a bunch of snails. Will be interesting to see if I can get them to breed in this environment.

At Reef Currents I ended up winning a raffle after purchasing a pair of Storm Clownfish from FJW. I ended up with four Storm Clownfish and a very nice pair of Longfin Black Ice Clownfish. They are all currently in QT and will be moving into their cycled 10g tanks in the rack as soon as QT and cycling has finished.

sneezebeetle · May 11, 2019

Looking good!

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BruceWinnnn · May 12, 2019

Sweet! I've always wanted a build like this n have many varieties of clowns!

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Stickboy97 · May 12, 2019

Looking good man! Love those long fins! Get those things makin babies!! lol

MrJoe · May 12, 2019

Looking Great!!!

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