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gareth4778
22-10-06, 14:07
I would like to know how hard it is to breed fish. I have a small tank about 125 litres with two clowns and two damsells and various inverts, I am intrested perticulaly breeding the clownfish!

Is it Hard to do:confused:

whats involved

I am relativly new to marine fishkeeping so keep it simple:)

alanwsg
22-10-06, 16:34
It's VERY hard to do.
Some info here .... http://www.phishybusiness.co.uk/propagation_and_breeding/breeding_ocellaris_clownfish.html

gareth4778
22-10-06, 16:47
Thanks for that, how do you obtain the rotifers?

alanwsg
22-10-06, 17:18
http://www.reefworks.co.uk/default.asp?section=37&subpage=102

porky
22-10-06, 17:23
some were called zm foods great for rotties its very hard to raise them i had a pair of clarkis that laid all the time in my 30g corner tank when i upgraded thay had to go so aggresive kept biteing my hands and hammering tank mates there best kept in a tank on there own imo

gareth4778
22-10-06, 17:59
Im learnin a little but on info overload at minute:)

To summerize in some sort of way what would i need to be ready to start doing this eg
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Also any suggested reading material, thanks reefmates, lol!

Phil
27-10-06, 22:24
Buy the book "Clownfishes" by Joyce Wilkerson - tells you all you need to know

Phil