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01/17/2019, 08:07 PM | #1 |
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Best CB percula clowns?
I still haven't added any clowns to my mag I got back in October. Havent really been in too big a hurry plus I've been waiting to try and find a pair of wc as their colors are better and they lack the deformities so many of the captive bred have.
If I decide to go with a captive bred pair in your guys opinions which breeder or breeders offer the best looking in terms of color and least amount of deformities? I'm still in no big hurry just looking at my options for when I do finally decide.
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It sounds like you're looking for clowns free of any deformities. If that's the case, then I recommend getting a WC pair.
As a breeder myself, no matter how hard I try to breed deformity-free clowns, I still get them. I don't think any breeder can guarantee that their clowns are free from deformities. Many of the CB percs have small dorsal and pelvic fins to begin with, aside from other physical deformities. If you do go with CB percs, definitely get a WYSIWYG pair.
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01/19/2019, 02:32 AM | #3 |
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Bali Aquarich hands down produces better quality percula clowns out of all major hatcheries. Their lines seem to have longer dorsal and pelvic fins, and sometimes totally non-existent head and mouth deformities.
Getting good quality clowns is all about patience. The clown below was bred by ORA and one of the best looking CB percs I have seen. |
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Hey, Derek, you are wowing a bunch of so- cal-ers with your clowns! Reefers that come by are always impressed with them and ask where he got them! We get compliments often about how unique they are Sent from my SM-J327T using Tapatalk |
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The way I see CB clowns is your getting a trade off. Yes they will or may have some deformities but if that doesnt bother you then your getting a hardier fish better adapted to tank life. It seems some breeders do better then others at trying to limit this and take pride in what they do while others it's all about the next dollar. By the sounds of it you belong in the first group.
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Bali does produce some of the nicest captive bred fish available so it would only stand to reason they would have some of the best clowns as well. That is a gorgeous clown and like D-Nak stated a wysiwyg is definitely the way to go and worth the extra money. Thanks for sharing.
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Has anyone played around with adding different vitamins to the parents food and/or fry food?
I too am getting back slowly into breeding. |
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With most WC species I treat with Paraguard as soon as I get them home for at least 3 days. This usually stops brook dead in its tracks. If the fish come down with ick, then I use copper. I've lost very few WC clowns this way. To get them eating I feed BBS. Even full grown clowns eat BBS immediately. I have about a 90% survival rate with new WC fish. I also try to get them within two days of arrival at the importer. WC clowns do not survive long at the wholesalers.
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The stores I sold to didn't actually believe my fish were CB at first because all the CB ocellaris they had seen were pale orange/brown while mine were vibrant deep orange. The asaxanthin obviously helped with that too. I also changed my water everyday and kept my larval cultures a little bit green with living phytoplankton. I don't claim to be an expert, just sharing my experience. Stepping up my water changes and using high quality food pretty much eliminated my deformities and mis-bars. I guess now with designer clowns mis-bars aren't so much of an issue, but when I was raising ocellaris, nobody wanted mis-bars. The babies needed to look wild caught.
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I’d try to find a LFS that have brought in a big group and then just pick the best of what they have in person. Even with good pics online it’s easy to miss something. I have a store near me that he at least a hundred in stock recently. They were Occs though not percs. Wild type percs may be harder to find locally.
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I live in a fairly rural part of Pennsylvania near the NY boarder and I dont know of many reefers even in the area. Just the ones that work at the lfs and have tanks.
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