Anyone know how to breed clownfish?

[foxfishfan]

Hi I've noticed my clowns lay eggs on the underside of the liverock attaced to their anenome, but obviously they must hatch and get sucked up by the powerheads or get eaten by their 'parents' or other fish in the tank. Has anyone removed the rock with the attached eggs/larvae and been able to breed baby clowns?

[cprowler]

One of the Reefcast podcasts go into it with a guest. I think its at the very beginning of episode 5 or 7 or something, can't remember. They’re worth a listen anyway.

http://www.reefcast.com/

I know it's quite involved, the first 10 days or so they have to be fed every few hours and in complete darkness in a separate breeding tank.

[foxfishfan]

thanks for the info, sounds like a lotta work for the pleasure of seeing baby clown. Tony

[Captainhemo]

There is a book called "Clownfishes" by Joyce D Wilkerson that has some pretty decent info/guidelines to breeding and raising clownfishes (100 or so pages worth). It is quite often available on ebay for reasonable $$.