Hi Mark I've said before that I've never been into saltwater fish keeping but too me it's all fascinating bringing little eggs to life 🐠 brilliant thank you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The master of all fish breeding on youtube with a video on one of my top favorite fish again.... didnt even saw the video yet but im surely going to enjoy it. Thank you for this.
Great video mate💪 Are you planing to do a update on the L46 plecos? I really like you content☺️ You were one of a few Guys that inspired me to start the hobby and to start my own chanel😁 So i really appreciate you and your videos.
Love your breeding videos. Your camera work is superb. I find it's easier to move the eggs. I use small terra cotta pots. Just switch egg one for a clean one. Moving the parents can disrupt their breeding cycle for months.
I gave up marine fish keeping because it was so hard to keep anything that eats alge alive. The suplyers around us all were wild caught and they all used the chemical methods to catch them. That's what needs breeding the most the things that help keep the tank cleaning even the snails dead after 3 months. Water was always perfect just an empty tank with clowns, cardinal fish and cleaner shrimp.
Hello mark. I have moved my fry from main tank to hatch tank. It look as I have had a few hatch but not a lot. Do I leave them to see if the rest hatch. Do I turn the dim light on so the ones that have hatched can hunt the rotifers
What’s the salinity , water temperature, and lighting schedule ? light always blue? What to feed the breeding pears and how often do you do water changed ? And how much you take out from the tank?
I have a pair of Fiji Devil Damsel fish that are a breeding pair. But I’ve never had a pair of breeding fish before. Can you please give me some advice on how to be prosperous at raising fry?
If the fish are happy and well fed they will breed. The thing all tiny fry need is live micro food like rotifers. You can buy starter cultures online and their fairly easy to breed all you need phytoplankton which will come in the kit. Lots of videos on how to do this. The hard part is timing and having spare aquariums for the fry after hatching.
quick question when breeding them do they need to be alone in the tank or can i put them in the same tank as a couple other marine fish? btw good video, its helping know what to do and what not to do when it comes to caring for a clownfish
I've had my clownfish for about 3 years now but I cannot seem to get the female to have eggs. Is there anything can do to maybe influence this? I feed a combination of baby brine shrimp and Hikari pellets 3 times a day.
How do you know if the eggs get fertilized? My clowns laid and by day 11 only about 10 hatched the rest didn't hatch and the parents ate the whole eggs from the rock. I love that you are doing this series on clownfish breeding, I am ready for the next video follow up, Thanks!
If the eggs are not fertile they will go bad and the parents will remove them. If fertile after a few days they will go a darker colour and you'll see their eyes shining away.
So problem I have is my clowns are an established pair they been togeather on their own now for around 5 years constant looking like the about to lay but never actually lay eggs any advice ?? Thanks
HI , My clownfish is laying eggs every 15 days once since 1 year. But the problem i face is i don't get rotifier or copepods in the market. I can only get the brine shrimps by hatching. Is their any solution to raise the fries ?
What do you feed them to condition them for spawning? I have a pair in a 20 gallon reef, do you think they can protect the eggs from a coral banded shrimp. I hate to pull them out of the reef into a separate tank.
For your separate baby clownfish tank. Could you get your water from the established tank and put them in there immediately or should you run the tank for 3 months before?
I have a question. I have aquariums for breeding clownfish. Could I add 70 liters of 2 lysmata wundermani shrimp with a pair of clownfish to the aquarium? Will the shrimp interfere with the spawning of clownfish?
I live next to an ocean and there are no local fish stores near me that sells rotifers, is there an alternative for feeding the clownfish fry if somehow my clownfish pair breed?
Hello, I have been wanting to setup a saltwater tank for awhile now. I want to keep a pair of clowns in hope to breed them one day. What size tank do you have? Also do you need a wave maker, protein skimmer or any special lights for just clownfish?
Are you also able to make a video about how you raise them? And the most easy way? I think it's quite hard to keep a phytoplancton and a brachonius culture going
Would this also be applicable to the different colour Clown Fish? And would you be able to go over sexing these please buddy? I have read a few conflicting story’s on these more complicated sexing due to the changing etc.
CF sexing is easy. If you are purchasing a pair, buy the largest and smallest. They all start out male and one in a group will turn female. Females are larger. The largest in a group at the LFS is most likely already turned female.
Hi mark can please help me to breed l046 . I don’t how work out water conditions. At moment i am adding RO WATER N Some tap water i don’t add nuffink els is it right ???
fish shop clownfish are normally 6 to 8 months old, so for the female it will be another 18 months maybe a bit sooner . The Males can breed from six months old .
I was wondering if you could help me out. I’ve got a pair of clowns who have only been together for a few days. The boy we’ve had for about 3 weeks I am fairly sure he’s still a juvenile and the girl came from an established tank where she’s lived alone for a few years with a trigger fish. Backstory done. The very first day I put them together he was doing this dance for her. And then the next morning I found a clutch of eggs on the glass of the display tank. They are all white except one which is dark. Day 3 now. I’m growing baby brines for them just incase but I think it’s an infertile clutch. Both parents especially the boy are constantly tending the eggs. Being that they’re on the glass I can’t take them out... but moving forward, would it be best to set up a spawning tank for this pair? Will they be likely to spawn again soon? Are the eggs white because I have a young male? Or? Are the eggs fertilised after laying or before?
Healthy eggs are salmon pink when layed then will get darker as the week progresses. By 7 to 10 day's you will see all there little eyes. Baby brine shrimp are no good for a first food they need rotifers for the first 6 to 10 days ok.
So would the colour of the eggs be because of the female? I have been googling this a lot but all I can find is that white eggs are infertile and or fungus covered but since I know they were laid white I very much doubt fungus. Is this something you’ve seen with young fish? I have set up and am cycling a nano for them. I’ll feed them up on the brine I’m growing as well as the mysis and some pellets. I figure good rounded nutrition is very important to reproductive health...
Hi Mark, 2 clown pair lovers just legging eggs in my tank on a rock. Can i drain the smal baby clowns out in to a smal tank after 9 days ?? And can you tell me how you make your macroplanton ? I like to try it . :-)
You'll have to get a culture of rotifers from ebay and a bottle of phytoplankton to feed the rotifers ok. Watch my other videos on breeding them i show you how it's done.
@@MARKSAQUATICS ive never tried to get them to breed, my mate said put a flowerpot in , or would it help taking the other clownfish out , because two seem to be together more and the one seems left on his own ?
When are you gonna breed your marbled hatchet (carnegiella strigata)? Acording to sveral websites reproduction of this species are very rare or unrecorded. And it seems it hasent been done commersially, yet. Take the challenge!
@@MARKSAQUATICS ::90 cm long not sure the height a minute about 50cm maybe but its 220 liters the stand is solid wood with solid top thanks for reply keep up the gd work love you videos not far from you I'm in rhondda 👍
You get two different size clownfish, one small and one super big, the big one will turn into a female and the small one will remain a male. Preferable get baby clowns because ones a clown turns female they can never revert back to being a male, so if u get baby ones u have a high chance that they are still both males.
I've put these two together just today, th-cam.com/video/u3WVvhhz-tk/w-d-xo.html the big one is shoving the little one around a fair bit. Do you think they could pair ?
And they said breeding Clownfish was difficult.. This man here does it so easily..! You are a treasure to the fish community Sir!
Thank you.😊👍
REALLY good work. You make it simple.
Thanks for watching 😊👍
Hi Mark I've said before that I've never been into saltwater fish keeping but too me it's all fascinating bringing little eggs to life 🐠 brilliant thank you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The master of all fish breeding on youtube with a video on one of my top favorite fish again.... didnt even saw the video yet but im surely going to enjoy it.
Thank you for this.
This is so crazy cool! I never realized that clownfish were relatively easy to breed...now I want to get a saltwater tank!
Waste of time and money.
@@12345Timeout Thank you for your opinion.
Benjamin Elliott the things you like doing is definitely not a waste of time, and you should do it saltwater tanks are a lot of fun
@@nicklefebvre3921 Thanks for your kind words! I certainly want to try it out sometime when I have the time and money! Lol
Brent coll if you don’t know what ur doing
wow I couldn't hardly believe it when I got the alert for this ! Mark=legend .
Thanks Gary. 😂👍
Thanks for another great video Mark. I'd love to see some sea horses in the salt room someday...just a thought 💕👍
Great video mate💪
Are you planing to do a update on the L46 plecos?
I really like you content☺️
You were one of a few Guys that inspired me to start the hobby and to start my own chanel😁
So i really appreciate you and your videos.
Thanks for watching. Yes I'll have to do an update video on those dudes. 😊👍
Brilliant video mark can’t wait for the next update
Love your breeding videos. Your camera work is superb.
I find it's easier to move the eggs. I use small terra cotta pots. Just switch egg one for a clean one.
Moving the parents can disrupt their breeding cycle for months.
Thanks for watching. 😊👍
Great video make fish keeping look so easy !
Like my friend. 👍👍😉
Another cool video mark 👍 can't wait for the next one 👍👍👍👍👍
Your content is fantastic Mark, the best that on TH-cam!
Thank you 😊👍
I don't do saltwater, but i am watching this video lol.
Thanks for watching 😊👍
Sorta puts the movie "Finding Nemo" into perspective. Lol. Great video!!! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
Best Aquarium Channel Mark
Nice 👍
I gave up marine fish keeping because it was so hard to keep anything that eats alge alive. The suplyers around us all were wild caught and they all used the chemical methods to catch them. That's what needs breeding the most the things that help keep the tank cleaning even the snails dead after 3 months. Water was always perfect just an empty tank with clowns, cardinal fish and cleaner shrimp.
i had a mexican turbo for 8 months before i overdosed it, you need to let ur tank get dirty
Thanks for this video! I just bought my first pair, hoping for good results 🤞🏻
Wassup did u success?
Got ya self a new sub mate
Hello mark. I have moved my fry from main tank to hatch tank. It look as I have had a few hatch but not a lot. Do I leave them to see if the rest hatch.
Do I turn the dim light on so the ones that have hatched can hunt the rotifers
Such a great video thankyou!
very informative thanks
What’s the salinity , water temperature, and lighting schedule ? light always blue? What to feed the breeding pears and how often do you do water changed ? And how much you take out from the tank?
Salinity 0.25 temp, 25 degrees Celsius, 14 hour day, and 20% water change every two weeks. 😊👍
Have you any vids on raising the fry?
Thanks again Mark
I have a pair of Fiji Devil Damsel fish that are a breeding pair. But I’ve never had a pair of breeding fish before. Can you please give me some advice on how to be prosperous at raising fry?
If the fish are happy and well fed they will breed. The thing all tiny fry need is live micro food like rotifers. You can buy starter cultures online and their fairly easy to breed all you need phytoplankton which will come in the kit. Lots of videos on how to do this. The hard part is timing and having spare aquariums for the fry after hatching.
dont we have to feed the rotifers something?
love the vids btw subbed
quick question when breeding them do they need to be alone in the tank or can i put them in the same tank as a couple other marine fish? btw good video, its helping know what to do and what not to do when it comes to caring for a clownfish
Best results for any breeding project I've had are from species only tanks.
Fantastic Mark amazing, sorry I have been quiet manic at work with xmas. I will contact you on FB re the pickup love to you and yours
Ok John. I've been messaging you.
I've had my clownfish for about 3 years now but I cannot seem to get the female to have eggs. Is there anything can do to maybe influence this? I feed a combination of baby brine shrimp and Hikari pellets 3 times a day.
How do you know if the eggs get fertilized? My clowns laid and by day 11 only about 10 hatched the rest didn't hatch and the parents ate the whole eggs from the rock. I love that you are doing this series on clownfish breeding, I am ready for the next video follow up, Thanks!
If the eggs are not fertile they will go bad and the parents will remove them. If fertile after a few days they will go a darker colour and you'll see their eyes shining away.
do you feed your rotifers live algae cultures or do you feed the concentrated algae that you buy in the bottle keep in the refrigerator
So problem I have is my clowns are an established pair they been togeather on their own now for around 5 years constant looking like the about to lay but never actually lay eggs any advice ??
Thanks
Hi mark, how do you differentiate between a male and female clownfish
HI , My clownfish is laying eggs every 15 days once since 1 year. But the problem i face is i don't get rotifier or copepods in the market. I can only get the brine shrimps by hatching. Is their any solution to raise the fries ?
How do you know if they’re ready to breed?
What do you feed them to condition them for spawning? I have a pair in a 20 gallon reef, do you think they can protect the eggs from a coral banded shrimp. I hate to pull them out of the reef into a separate tank.
Nice video, can maroon and designer pair, if possible can they spawn or it has to be another maroon in order to spawn
For your separate baby clownfish tank. Could you get your water from the established tank and put them in there immediately or should you run the tank for 3 months before?
Hi Mark!!!Your Video was very informative...thanks for that...
How big is your female???
Hi. She's about 3 inches long. 😀👍
I have a question. I have aquariums for breeding clownfish. Could I add 70 liters of 2 lysmata wundermani shrimp with a pair of clownfish to the aquarium? Will the shrimp interfere with the spawning of clownfish?
WHAT!! Really Mark?!?! You gonna breed killer whales next :)
We're guna need a bigger tank! 🐋😊👍
I live next to an ocean and there are no local fish stores near me that sells rotifers, is there an alternative for feeding the clownfish fry if somehow my clownfish pair breed?
Alright alright
Hello, I have been wanting to setup a saltwater tank for awhile now. I want to keep a pair of clowns in hope to breed them one day. What size tank do you have? Also do you need a wave maker, protein skimmer or any special lights for just clownfish?
Hi Mark, love your videos. What size tank is this and what are you using for filtration?
Thanks. The breeding tank size 15L 9H 9D . It's a bank of 5 tanks all the same size. And they all run in to a somp tank.
hey sir iwant to ask how to know the gender of the anemone fish or nemo clownfish
Are you also able to make a video about how you raise them? And the most easy way? I think it's quite hard to keep a phytoplancton and a brachonius culture going
Look in my playlists all the videos are in there. Thanks for watching.
@@MARKSAQUATICS I Will. Thank's
I have two clownfish that have been laying eggs in my display tank. Dumb question, could moving them to their own tank screw up the pairing??
No they should be fine. Probably won't breed again until they're settled in tho.
what size is your fishbowl?? for clownfish
Madang maszeeeh
Hey I’ve noticed my female cleaning off a rock and the male does not is that normal ?
HI Mark what sort of tile do u use i dont want anything to leech into my tank and kill corals
I use ceramic tiles.
Would this also be applicable to the different colour Clown Fish? And would you be able to go over sexing these please buddy? I have read a few conflicting story’s on these more complicated sexing due to the changing etc.
CF sexing is easy. If you are purchasing a pair, buy the largest and smallest. They all start out male and one in a group will turn female. Females are larger. The largest in a group at the LFS is most likely already turned female.
Very true. But the female might still reject the male and you may have to introduce a new male.
Thanks chaps is same said for adding new clowns?
How old do clownfish have to be before they spawn?
Males will breed from six months. Females can take two or three years to mature.
Hi mark did you buy them as a pair🤪.
Yes I bought them as a bonded pair. 😊👍
Where can I get a slate to have the eggs laid? Anyone have a link?
Hi mark can please help me to breed l046 . I don’t how work out water conditions. At moment i am adding RO WATER N Some tap water i don’t add nuffink els is it right ???
How long would you say that it takes to get them to breeding from age you get them at the LFS
fish shop clownfish are normally 6 to 8 months old, so for the female it will be another 18 months maybe a bit sooner . The Males can breed from six months old .
Hiya at what stage to do remove the slate or pot? The night before hatching or a couple of days prior? Thanks
Hi the night before is best. And keep an air stone very lightly agitating the eggs 😀👍
Great thanks.
Do your clownfish stay in a simple breeding tank or get moved to a tank with skimmer etc? After
I was wondering if you could help me out. I’ve got a pair of clowns who have only been together for a few days. The boy we’ve had for about 3 weeks I am fairly sure he’s still a juvenile and the girl came from an established tank where she’s lived alone for a few years with a trigger fish. Backstory done. The very first day I put them together he was doing this dance for her. And then the next morning I found a clutch of eggs on the glass of the display tank. They are all white except one which is dark. Day 3 now. I’m growing baby brines for them just incase but I think it’s an infertile clutch. Both parents especially the boy are constantly tending the eggs.
Being that they’re on the glass I can’t take them out...
but moving forward, would it be best to set up a spawning tank for this pair? Will they be likely to spawn again soon?
Are the eggs white because I have a young male? Or? Are the eggs fertilised after laying or before?
Healthy eggs are salmon pink when layed then will get darker as the week progresses. By 7 to 10 day's you will see all there little eyes. Baby brine shrimp are no good for a first food they need rotifers for the first 6 to 10 days ok.
So would the colour of the eggs be because of the female? I have been googling this a lot but all I can find is that white eggs are infertile and or fungus covered but since I know they were laid white I very much doubt fungus. Is this something you’ve seen with young fish?
I have set up and am cycling a nano for them. I’ll feed them up on the brine I’m growing as well as the mysis and some pellets. I figure good rounded nutrition is very important to reproductive health...
Will clownfish eat their eggs?
Hi Mark, 2 clown pair lovers just legging eggs in my tank on a rock. Can i drain the smal baby clowns out in to a smal tank after 9 days ?? And can you tell me how you make your macroplanton ? I like to try it . :-)
You'll have to get a culture of rotifers from ebay and a bottle of phytoplankton to feed the rotifers ok. Watch my other videos on breeding them i show you how it's done.
I have a pair of tomato clowns and they keep clearing the sand right down to the glass, id this them clearing a spot to breed?
Up the food that can get them going.
@@MARKSAQUATICS any suggestions on what to feed them? I currently just feed them mysis shrimp
At what age do they reach sale size??
Did u used Ro water for mixing salt, or Di water, for breeding setup, pls let me know
Yes always use Ro Di water as tap water contains phosphate.
@@MARKSAQUATICS thanks
Do you sell breeding pairs of these?
No I don't sorry.
hello Mark, how big is clownfish suppose to be for breeding?
Male around 6 months females about 3 years old
Do you know of anyone that sells mated pairs of clown fish? Or do you perhaps?
Can you tell me why people dont move the clown fish rather then the eggs
Clown fish get used to there aquarium if you move them you will upset them and they'll stop breeding that's why we remove the eggs 😀👍
Will clownfish spawn on the sand?
What temperature is the water 💧 at the beginning to end?
25°c
Me again sorry is that a floor tile.can you use any kind of tile.😀
Yes you can use most tiles or terracotta pots.
Ive got 3 clowns together , one is bigger than other 2 , any chance they could breed ive had them a few years now
Hi. Are they in with other fish?
@@MARKSAQUATICS no on there own .ive noticed the bigger one bullies the others grabs them round the gills and pulls them around ..
@@robbrownhill312 maybe the female is infertile, I've had that before.
@@MARKSAQUATICS ive never tried to get them to breed, my mate said put a flowerpot in , or would it help taking the other clownfish out , because two seem to be together more and the one seems left on his own ?
@@robbrownhill312 keep the two that get along, remove the other one and put a pot in. Feed well on frozen or live food and see how they go
What are the water parameters in the breeding tank?
Salinity 0.25 temp 25 degrees Celsius.
@@MARKSAQUATICS is 35% on a Refractometer to high ?
Can i keep them in a 70 gallon and stil make them breed?
Yes you can.😀👍
MARK'S AQUATICS can i stil keep other fish then ?
MARK'S AQUATICS plus its my first salt tank my 70 gallon
How to find they r couple
When are you gonna breed your marbled hatchet (carnegiella strigata)? Acording to sveral websites reproduction of this species are very rare or unrecorded. And it seems it hasent been done commersially, yet. Take the challenge!
If my fish tank hangs over the stand by 5 mil on each end will it be ok
How big is the tank?
@@MARKSAQUATICS ::90 cm long not sure the height a minute about 50cm maybe but its 220 liters the stand is solid wood with solid top thanks for reply keep up the gd work love you videos not far from you I'm in rhondda 👍
@@mrevans5452 if its only a couple of mill you should be ok. 😊👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS ::👍👍its about the thickness of the glass ether end.thanks👍
Water temperature
So how you can from the male and female clown fish
You get two different size clownfish, one small and one super big, the big one will turn into a female and the small one will remain a male. Preferable get baby clowns because ones a clown turns female they can never revert back to being a male, so if u get baby ones u have a high chance that they are still both males.
dun madun I’m confused why get both baby clowns if there Botha makes? Will take years to change
@@dunmadun351is there any sign to know if she converted to a female?
Nemo is grown up 😂
I've put these two together just today, th-cam.com/video/u3WVvhhz-tk/w-d-xo.html the big one is shoving the little one around a fair bit. Do you think they could pair ?
Great video mate new subscriber Barry Manchester England 👍 hit me up buddy 👍 👍 👍
Hi Barry. Thanks for watching and subscribing. 😀👍
Hi mark. Do you have a private chat or email. Paul
How i know male from female