What Fish can be bred by us normal reefers?

[Cep-had]

I saw a few people on other forums speaking about breeding blennies, like algae, and red/orange spot, and a couple of more too. Apparently you can sex these by eye, and if you get lucky with a pair...who knows. I cannot confirm this, it is just what I read.

I had a friend a long time ago that was breeding sexy shrimp, but this is even before I got into SW tanks. I wish I could get in touch with him now, I have quite a few questions for him. He was also able to breed a few other fish species, but I cannot remember which breeds now!

I do know that you can breed some cuttlefish, and some people have had success with a few species of Octopus as well.

I would personally be very interested in learning more about breeding blennies.

Chad

[kofrederick]

do you need to have an anenome to breed true clown percs? mine are hosting a zinnia.

[Siberman]

FYI: guppies also can be acclimated (slowly) to salt water.

I've had the "Skunk" cleaner shrimp breed in my tank but I never tried to raise the fry.

[Elegance Coral]

Originally Posted by kofrederick

do you need to have an anenome to breed true clown percs? mine are hosting a zinnia.

No. They don't need an anemone.

[Cosine]

Just to add... A lfs in my hometown had/has a mated pair of crosshatch triggers.

They had been trying to raise the fry. They had not yet been able to raise any to maturity but I know the fry had been lasting longer with each batch.

Anyways I haven't been to that store in about a year so I don't know if they ever succeeded.

It would be impressive though. Trigger fry are tiny when first hatched... getting them to eat was the problem

[ultimatumparagon]

contrary to what many may believe mollies are a brackish water fish that tolerate fresh water but to put mollies in a salt water tank just throw them in and they will be fine I have had mollies breeding in my tank for over a year and never acclimated one


125g tank 30g sump 30g reef and a bunch of other stuff

[McLoki]

I have a mated pair of dragon gobies. They were the first fish I added to my tank. (got them from another reef owner) and they apparently already had eggs when I got them and put them in my tank. (had fry swimming around a couple of weeks later)

They appear to be building another nest (cave) now (about 3-4 weeks later).

The fry were apparenly eaten. I am not sure how to care for them anyway, but it is still kind of interesting.

Michael

[ReefLuvR]

I have 14 baby banggai cardinalfish right now. They were "spit" by daddy two days ago. So far they are eating well on freshly hatched brine. I moved them to a separate tank and am enjoying the process!