My Attempt at Breeding Clownfish (Part 1) + Weeping Willow Leather Fragging
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- My DaVinci Clownfish have started to spawn so I’m gonna try and rear the fry! I also needed to frag the weeping willow leather coral.
Disclaimer: I have never bred clownfish before so if you’ve had success, I would love any advice. My goal is to take you through the entire breeding and rearing process. Ideally, I’d like to be successful in raising 10-20 babies - that’s my goal.
I haven’t decided what I will do with the other Weeping Willow frags. If you have any ideas, please let me know. I think one of them is going to be a reef-warming gift for another TH-camr but there’s still a couple left! I might have to include some zoanthids as well.
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I spotted a bernie lol. Nice addition makes the tank stand out
Bernie Blenny would be a good fish name...lol
Yay new vid can not wait to finish watching
Oh, Bernie!! That was great!
So pumped!
The book "Clownfishes" by Joyce Wilkerson helped me a lot when I was getting into breeding clowns. I used a 5.5g with a painted white bottom with a sponge filter to rear the eggs. Phyto and rotifers are easy, the sucking out dead babies everyday with a rigid airline tube and making sure you don't shock them with water changes is the hardest part imo. I started doing gallon water changes from my reef everyday or every other day and had the most success. Good luck!
Thank you for this advice! Those little things like ammonia spikes and water changes are the type of info I need.
Good luck with the breeding project!!!
Thank you!
Awesome content, keep it up!
Brilliant video mate, really enjoyed it! Good luck with the clowns! Fingers crossed it all goes well!
Thanks a ton! Fingers crossed!
Stunning clowns 😍hopefully you have loads of success 🤞🏻
My new favorite reef TH-camr
Thanks Garrett!
Glad I found this channel!
Thanks for stopping by!
He got this !!
Remy loving the content recently!
Thank you! Just trying to get back on the horse. It's been a slow start for me this year.
Feel the Bern! Love you snuck that in there.
I had to. He was everywhere this past week! lol.
I wish i was on time haha those weeping W look amazing. Haha thank you for all your videos
Saw Bernie, too. 😉 let’s see, if your Clownfish will do their thing within the next weeks. Wish you good luck and a lot of strong and healthy baby-clownies. ☺️👍
Fingers crossed!
Nice one!
That weeping willow is amazing. id love to add it to my tank!
LOL Bernie big chilling by the pot 😂 Great video! Going to be fun seeing this progress of watching you trying to raise these clowns!
I'm nervous. I know that being nervous just means I'm growing...so that's good!
You go man
Good luck with the clownfish! 🤞😊 And I know just the spot for one of those Weeping Willow frags...👀🙄...my new, upgraded tank! 😛
Would love to buy the weeping willow frag. Thanks Remy for the video
Any time!
Awesome content. Look forward to the clown fish breeding. I am in the process of setting up a clown fish harem so I am pretty excited to go through the process.
There just aren't too many video series on TH-cam about how it's done. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place. Most of them are hard to follow.
Nice adventure!
Thanks for coming along!
@@BahamaLlamaCoral always love your content buddy !
the clay tile/pot is used because it has a flat surface and the clownfish like to lay there eggs on flat/smooth surfaces
Caught you on RNN podcast and realized that I had saw your channel on TH-cam recently. Great content in both places. I hope the clowns go well and I’m interested in tagging along. It’s something I’ve always thought about trying with my pair.
I think a lot of hobbyists want to tinker with it. It would be so fun to have a hand in helping baby clownfish grow through the cycle!
I love how Bernie is just chillin
He's EVERYWHERE!
I’d definitely take one of your weeping willow
Came at the perfect time man just got my breeding tank and sump all set up and cycled my pair comes next week
What morph did you get?
Yo, Bernie will definitely make the situation weird just sitting and watching 🤣🤣, poor clowns. Love your vids and passion.
He's creepin around everywhere...lol. Even in your fish tank!
You'll make a better newscaster/reporter than all the fox crazies. Don't get me wrong, I am not a cnn or mainstream media either but I don't box myself into a small rabbit hole either.
Lol! On second thought, maybe I'll go the Crocodile Hunter route.
Awesome video as usual I actually just put a flower pot in my tank last week hoping for the same results I’ve seen my clowns lay eggs on the side of a rock twice now but I am unable to retrieve them so hopefully they like the pot, ps would love a piece of the willow and keep up your he good work
They've been hanging out inside the pot so that's a good sign. I think it was a bit scary to them at first.
good.thank information
Good luck with the clown fish hopefully you can get some fry and hopefully I can still get a weeping willow frag
Fingers crossed for a ton of baby clowns!
@@BahamaLlamaCoral 🤞🤞🤞
I need a frag of that weeping willow 😍😍
LOL Bernie getting front seats
You know he'd be watching that go down...lol.
I WANT one of the weeping willow toadstool>>>>
Trying to start my first reef tank sooooo... Idk that would look amazing
Poor bernie doesn't even have a snorkel 😂🦉🍻
Holding his breath under that mask, lol!
I really need to find one of those Toadstools locally, they look so neat. :)
Up the light and the flow and the weeping willow will take off and grow very fast. I’ve got 4 very large 6-8”+ colonies, and 2 medium to large 4” colonies. Bunch of frags. Indonesian type. Also have the bright neon green Japanese weeping willows. Definitely have keep after fragging these. They can get massive. Original momma was about 16-18” across when open.
Good advice! I will definitely look into moving the willow. My regular green one is about 10 inches across and in high flow.
First! Good luck with the clowns Remi! Also I would love to buy some of your clowns!
Heck yes!! I hope to have a lot of babies - baby clowns are the best.
@@BahamaLlamaCoral for real, they are soo cute and once you get over culturing rotifers and the first month it’s smooth sailing. For culturing rotifers and copepods I use ocean nutrition RG Complete phyto, it’s fully intact and live cells and is the most concentrated stuff I’ve ever seen, a few drop of this stuff has more phyto than an entire ounce of oceanmagik phyto or anything else. It also has a built in pH buffer and ammonia neutralizer. Just sharing my experience, hope you find it helpful!
Earmark me! 😆 I want some willow in my aquarium..
hi could you please show how u made ur frag racks?, and what are the best distance/flows for zoas from the surface of the water?
Great video Remey..my pair of clownfish just laid eggs on my back wall..what's the best way of keeping them alive
I still need one of these frags in my life lol.
I get daily messages on that bad boy. It's craziness. Thanks for the watch Tommy!
@@BahamaLlamaCoral I can believe it. if i had something worthy enough to make a trade offer i would haha. ive even asked my local lfs if they can order me a small one and they cant even get them.
I see what you did there at 4:22. LOL!
Had to. lol. He's EVERYWHERE.
Weeping willow are always sick! The clownfish eggs shouldn’t be to hard to hatch. Just have to be persistent. Good luck!
Not hard to hatch...just a bit more complex to raise the fry in the first couple days. That's the part I'm nervous about.
Hi Remy, I have breed clownfish before . No rotifer no clownfish fry . Most important at larvae stage is u need to keep the water clean . 6days rotifer after that you slowly switch to bbs . Newly hatch is the best to feed . Very fun to breed fish ... good luck !🥳
You're saying you need rots or you don't? Also, what do you suggest for water change percentage and frequency in the first 6 days?
@@BahamaLlamaCoral hi , you need rotifer to feed for 6 days . Everyday water change 10 % . When you see clownfish lay eggs , 8days later they will hatch . The key to catch the fry is to use red light , the fry will get shock and die if u use too strong light . Dim the light for 24hrs for the 1st day . Cheers!
Been waiting for my clowns to lay eggs as well.. what music do you play for yours to get them in the mood? 😆
Marvin Gaye come on you know this!
They like the Greatest Showman soundtrack for some reason...
I need to win that weeping willow
Im curently raising some fry. I personally didnt bother culturing phyto since it was too much work culturing rotifers and taking care of the fry at the same time. I used a product called easy roti made by easy reefs. Its basically a mix of phyto in a gel like consistancy. I feed a 2l culture of rotifers with 8ml of easy roti. Its way easier than culturing live phyto.
I'll look into that for sure. Are you a breeder or do you just dabble?
@@BahamaLlamaCoral I just do it as a part of the hobby. This is my first time raising the fry. I wanted to at least try it once.
@@ac3ray903 and did the gel do well?
@@TinderTruthAI yes i got almost all of the fry through.
How did the breeding go with the clownfish? Was it sucessful? Would it be possible for me to do myself as a new beginner!
What do you think is the average time for clowns to start laying eggs? I have had a pair for about a year now. I know there are many factors. I.... I mean my clowns would love a frag of that willow. Good job on the content, keep it up.
Each pair is different. From what I've read 2-4 years is usually a good gauge.
May need to get a little “Barry White” playing for the clowns my brother 🥰🥰
I still need a weeping willow in my tank.lol.😀
Peep the Bernie at 4:30
He everywhere! lol.
I want a frag for sure when we meet I hope you have some 😂🙏🏼
Gosh, hopefully we'll have some conventions this year!
Is there such thing as over feeding rotifers?
Put poly on the table instead of oil
How long can you leave the rubber band in the tank before it breaks down? I have a rubber band on my returns for my canister filters and I'm looking for suggestions on something better to keep the returns pointing some what down into the tank instead of upwards.
I'm not sure. I've only ever had rubber bands in the tanks for 2-3 weeks.
That weeping Willow is awesome, I probably won’t win the giveaway so do you know where I can go to look for a good quality one?
I got my mother colony from a LFS here in St. Louis a couple years ago. You might try Marine Farmers...he's got a good selection of softies.
I literally just put my black snowflake female and snowflake male in a Nuvo Fusion 14 as a breeder tank. Hoping for some cool color patterns.
I’m interested in the challenge myself.
Hopefully we can all go through this together!
Just getting in to the hobby and just moved to STL. I would love one of your frags too. What club are you in and what are the details on the march frag swap? Really like your channel. Thanks!
SLASH is our local club in STL. It's semi-active. We have 2 swaps a year at the Elks Lodge in South County. Welcome to the Lou! Where did you move from?
@@BahamaLlamaCoral I was born here, graduated from McCluer, went into the Marine Corps, went to New Mexico State, worked all over and moved back here from Dallas.
How long did you leave the desk oil to dry? I made my desk with oak in a similar way. If the room is humid it’ll take forever but first coat needs a good 48hours to dry. Should be quicker after that. Do a coat every couple of weeks for the first 2 months and it’ll last forever! Then once a year should be fine! Keeping a close eye on your clown project!
Thank you for this! If there is one thing I've always wanted to learn but just never had the time it's woodworking. I shot that video about 24 hours after a 3rd coat of oil so I'm assuming that's what was going on. Not fully soaked in yet.
I’m so proud of my desk! I ruined tools on it but totally worth it! I’d send a picture but can’t on here! 🤷♂️
Hey Remy, I keep losing clown fish. Three have died during the past 6 months. Not sure why. best of luck with the breeding!
I can help with that but I first need to know what are u feeding the parents and what’s your setup and how are u moving the eggs ??
Just clownfish? Would need to know parameters and a lot more info. Hope everything works out.
Hey man! I watch all your videos and am curious what you do for work aside from youtube
I'm a morning radio show host in St. Louis!
Rotifers are easy, you just can't ignore them for long. Before you get anything I would invest in a cheap but not dirt cheap microscope. Since you make youtube videos get one that comes with a phone attachment so you can share what you're seeing. Without a microscope you cannot monitor your rotifer culture. I prefer to catch my larvae with a larvae trap rather then remove the eggs before they hatch. Buy your rotifers from reed mariculture and all your other things, tdo, rg complete or another rotifer food. Don't rush and don't worry about failure if you fail you get another chance in 2 weeks or less. One regret I have is rushing.
Huge! Thanks for the advice!
Lmao! Bernie!!!
Get Reggie a turf scrubber
If it were me i would first experiment with the rotifer cultures and see how that goes. WHen successful proceed. You can do it, 👍
Yep! Exactly what I was thinking. It seems breeding marine fishes is more about having food to feed them in the first 20 days than actually getting them to spawn.
Will you have weeping willow for sale?
Look to the left of the pot at 4:37 😅
If a llama was a person lmao
Bernie 😂😂
He in there...creepin.
would like to know if you sale the weeping willow frags
None at the moment :(
Do u recomend copepods for clownfish fry?
From the breeders I've talked to, copepods are too large. Rotifers seem to be the most accepted first food.
Thanks! I will be supporting
Reme,find a local breeder and get with them to hook your wagon to them and their success.Rotifers are the first foods and any local fish breeder /shop can help you with that culture.Fresh water breeders use Rotifers as well.In the Spring I am raising some of my marine animals,maybe we can talk then.We are in KY. Raising,shrimps,maroons and ? Best of luck,stay well big MO. Doc BC
Thank you! We have a couple local breeders here in STL. Kathy Leahy lives here. She's the first breeder in the lower 48 to successfully raise Coral Beauties! I am definitely asking around.
When I did my breeding I hatched brine shrimp.
The brine shrimp weren't too big? How many clowns made it through the first 20-50 days?
@@BahamaLlamaCoral I didn't know what I was doing when I started so I only had 1 make it. The second time I had 2 make it. It's a very stressful thing and I stopped after that. I might start it up again soon.
I always wanted to breed my clownfish, sadly one of the clownfish jumped out and died. But Great video
The mother jumped about 3 months ago and I just happened to walk downstairs a couple minutes after it happened! She swam upside down for about 10 minute but recovered. Silly fish!
4:30
You may have said it. How old are your clowns?
About 4 years old.
Aptasias ayee
Yeppppp. Happens to the best of us.
@@BahamaLlamaCoral I’m in the same boat , have you tried Berghias ?
@@ragu346165 Normally have peppermints to mitigate but I think the two in there had passed or were a quick snack.
I want a weeping willow frag please ...
Can I get a frag from your counter top desk?
Like, you want a frag of the desk?
@@BahamaLlamaCoral It seemed funny at the time.
I think I'm always late to try to win a Willow But anyway I like watching your channel it teaches me a lot about some watery tank Keep on ticking
All good! There will be more in the future!
I need 1 of them frags :(
It's most requested for sure!
I wish I could put a picture of my nano tank in here u would be like man, this would set it off. Tank is looking phenomenal. We could do some trading maybe. Got jester torches, hulk, gold, hammers, something u want lol. Have a good day. Ty for responding.
Dool bernie frag
Lmao can I buy a lil bernie to drown in my tank?
LOL!! I was wondering how many would notice.
Completely off topic but the spiffing brit made a TH-cam video on how the TH-cam algorithm is broke and how to exploit it if you’re interested in a boost on your subscribers.
First of all 9:04
Also
There too many ways to get more tanks in this hobby. Hopefully the breeding goes well for you.
TOO MANY. lol. Thankfully I have a couple extras and a book shelf that should be a perfect "rack system" for the tanks.
I want a weeping willow coral ill pay
I wish I could accommodate everyone. There are so many willow requests...it just doesn't grow that fast unfortunately.
3rd?
🐠
You kinda remind me of Ryan renolds idk why
what ever happened to this project remy?
Update this week!
Did anyone see the old guy in a chair 😂
BERNIE! lol.
Go CHIEFS
Mahomies!
Should've started watching your videos earlier