That's why clownfish have so many eggs.. because less than 1% survive in the wild. You're on par with the wild be proud!

I've heard numerous times that the first few clutches are often "weak" and fail. It could be that the clowns learn and gain experience in how to raise eggs over the first few clutches. Perhaps the parents do not oxygenate the eggs properly or do not clean them sufficiently during development, meaning they've suffered oxygen deficiencies or experience infections on hatching, resulting in high fry mortality. As a result of this early inexperience, clownfish may have also evolved to produce lower quality fry in those first few spawns so as not to waste resources on offspring that have high rates of attrition. For example, the female could invest nutritionally less into each egg and so the fry hatch with smaller yolk sacks. This is all speculation but you asked for some possible biological explanations :D

This is where the idea for nemo was originated when scientists/fishbreeders were first starting to breed clownfish in captivity.

drove through St Louis on the way back to Texas from Ohio and said a silent hello to you and your tanks lol

The start of the fish room/office has begun that is a huge step for me in the hobby this year and going to be an exciting thing! Glad to hear you were able to keep your position, life gets crazy I can agree and we appreciate you! Uno is looking good on that 48 day video! Awesome video Remy!

Nice to finally meet you. I almost didn’t recognize you in the blues hat. I’m so used to the camo Cardinals hat.

Love the clownfish content… actually perfect for me because Corals an Clowns are the two things I’m currently obsessing over, learning more an more about etc..

Happy you are back,

This guy should be a way bigger channel because he’s goated

If only life was perfect all the time. The truth is we will never run out of problems to solve. Love your channel man. Keep your eyes on your goals.

Also in St. Louis!! Starting the breeding journey with a black and white clown and black ice clown!!

Hey Remy, glad your back see you at Aquashella!

Happy to see you back. Was kind of worried bro. Hope all is well

Robert Kings Clownfish! Great page!

I am picking up a very sleep deprived vibe off of that final 30 seconds or so there 🤣🤣🤣

New thing this year: MACRO ALGAE, having a lot of fun with it!

New this year: Growing phytoplankton 😀 Edit; because growing weed wasn't an option here in Kansas...lol!

Thank you Remy, for creating such awesome videos all the time! It’s KZfaqrs like you that helped me a lot in my (still) beginning stages of Reefing and gave me the confidence to finally pull the plug and set up a reeftank. My Mocha Storm Clowns moved in yesterday and I couldn’t be happier 🤗

Sorry to hear about your cohost, I know since the pandemic happened, alot of the workers there have been let go, hopefully things get back on track. As for your video output, your basically giving up your free time for our entertainment/education, so however long it takes I'm willing to wait 😁 I completely forgot about Aquashella, which kinda blows my mind because last year it's all I could think about, here's hoping I'm able to make the next big aquarium event and finally shake your hand, thanks for all that you do

The lone survivor!

Yeah baby

Sup Remy, My new thing is a 6ft waterbox peninsula 230gal upgraded from a 75gal, plus giving a shot at brine shrimp hatching.

Glad your back! Can’t wait to see the clownfish breeding continue to develop.

This is so cool so excited for the future it’s always fun when a new video is out thanks I know it can be difficult don’t worry about it it can be hard but anytime there is a new video ill always watch

Love your channel! Please keep doing what you’re doing. It’s very inspiring, entertaining, and encouraging. Look forward to more vids and trying to start my first nano soon.

Glad to see another video! Ah, yes, life.... Met Scott Crowe at Reef a Palooza, super cool guy. See you all at Aquashella.

Good to see you, again! Hope you stay well.

It is addictive to breeding and raising Clownfish!!

Glad your back Zach!

Something new was everything man.

Haha love the ending, and don't be to hard on yourself, you were successful twice all you have do do now is build on that, I know you'll do it, stay confidant.. Oh and new thing this year, moving up from a nano to a 40gallon, built my first sump, and fuge, custom plumbing, modified everything as it's all second hand bits, fiat time using dry rock too, hopefully filling it today first time using an RODI too hahaha

Finally been waiting for a new upload!

I did my first trade in the hobby, got a double head of gold hammer, and 3 polyps of princess oxana zoas.

try feeding them with baby brine shrimp with the lights on 2 or 3 times a day it worked for me

Looking forward to seeing you. I am going to the show on Saturday. New tank this year is a Florida/Carribean Mangrove biotope with a tide stimulation. Filling it with flowers, rics and macro algae.

I was wondering what happen. Glad your back.

Great video Remy !!!! Can't wait to the fish room progression. This year ...... -Stated a company Bensnems.com -Breeding clownfish -Getting lost in macro alge books!!!! -Scaped my first display macro seahores tank!

Hope to see you at aquashella!

In nature there is "K/R theory of selection". this theory is a trade off of the reproductive health and fitness of offspring and quantity. Humans, elephants are classed as K-selection as they have single offspring and look after them for many years. R selection are creatures such as rabbits, and rats or clownfish. They produce a lot of offspring and only very few survive due lack of genetic fitness leading to illness and/or predation. The majority of offspring are not genetically "fit" under optimum conditions; and thus, won't make it to adulthood in the wild. When we breed aquarium fish we actually get statistically higher numbers of offspring that reach adulthood compare to the wild. However, When we are breeding there are many factors that can affect the conditions we breed in. We loose a large precent. when we start breeding as we have to find optimum conditions. Ensuring stability in tank parameters and healthy enriched food supply was key when I use to breed. I would only get 1 fish per batch. I ended up taking the rock out each time (careful not to allow them to touch air) and put them into another tank with water from the main tank. I did water changes in the breeding breeding tank and then used the breeding tank water for the the babies grow tank. I eventually got about 20-30% survival, generally because I was a bit lazy. I love watching the stripes develop. My first clownfish baby was a A. percula which turned out a miss-bar, round 20 years ago. Keep up the great work!

He’s back

Got 50 raised the first time I attempted it. Maybe going to give it another try some day soon.

I started my tank this year! That’s my new thing lol it’s going so well. Really enjoy your videos

Sold all my tanks and fish and upgraded to a Red Sea 750 xxl! It’s been running since last October and is doing great

Glad to see another video, there always good.

Dude love the clownfish breeding adventure, gonna be so cool to see how dos is turning out to look like. Also Uno is looking stunning ;) Have you considered breeding other fish than just clowns?

Been waiting for a new video! 😂 Love It!

I would suspect that nutrition ( or lack of) is the reason that only one fry survived, especially because they all made it past the first day. I would pay special attention to what you feed the parents ( enriching food with fatty and nutrient rich additives like selcon may help). Also be sure that the rotifers you feed out are completely gut-loaded with algae paste shortly before you feed them out. Rotifers only take about 2 hours to digest algae paste , and they are most nutritionally dense while it’s still in their system.

Just set up an IM 25 lagoon. Wanting to do an anemone only tank. Just waiting for it to cycle so I can start buying from Ben

I mean of all the nemo’s out there one of your guys deserves that name!!! However I do like the naming logic you’re going with! Awesome video and I’m following closely. My pair keep showing signs but still have never laid. But prior knowledge before the event is always a good way to go! Appreciate you man! Let me know if you ever come over to Scotland! Free lodging and a tour guide! 😉

He uses airline hose to do the siphoning, He said he runs a piece of the tubing through the bigger hose he shows, using an airline hose alone to have a strong enough flow to suck them in while very slowly taking water out of the tank

Love the breeding videos. Definitely want to try this in the future. I have two gladiator clowns but they aren't ready yet. Looking forward to saying hi at Aquashella!

something new i tried this year is dosing. which i’ve found is very beneficial & helpful in extending water change schedules

See ya at aquashella remy!

Hey!!!!

Love the stuff mr llama

I am going down the clownfish rabbit hole as I just put together another tank to get another pair to see if I can get to the first step of egg laying. If that works then the next step is trying to get a few to survive. Hoping you get tres and a whole lot more in time. Great update.

Once again AMAZING video

Following along! I'm also looking to improve on one solo survivor for clowns and bangai!

I like the ideal of more pairs but if it was me I'd work on being able to hatch from the first pair first lol You'll get it though, it takes trial and error to learn what works for you best

Hi Remy , the problem the eggs didn't hatch is because you bring the hatch too early & bubble not correct . 8days they hatch , after lights off wait for 45min & the eggs will hatch . The fry will get shock very easy , use red light to catch & dim light after 1st day....😄

Reefing is addictive ( videos, tanks, frags, etc )

I'm a marine ecologist but, to be fair, I don't work with clownfish. I'd say your ammonia hypothesis makes sense; maybe ammonia was a bit high and as a few die, that creates a positive-feedback for ammonia levels until you notice all of the mortality. Then you are only left with a couple (by chance, 1 each time in your case). Them being so sensitive to ammonia makes sense in that they are pelagic plankton post-hatching, during which time they would be in highly nutrient-poor waters in nature.

Loving the channel as always and wish you success with your first breeding setup...gonna be great to follow....I noticed by the look of things you use fritz RPM blue box,do you have any readings for what Alk it mixes up at? And possibly same for red box? Cheers.

Always new stuff. Wish I could make it to Aquashella but have to work at my LFS part time that weekend.

survival of the fitter, it is a fight to the death until only 1 survive xD

Love your videos Remy, been keeping up with all of them. Any shirts to purchase? Saw the hoodies but it's hot for those now

Starting trying some Nonphotosynthetic corals. Loving the gorgonians but they're hard to come by in Australia. Would love some blue and yellows if I can find them 😂 Love the video, might have to try breeding clowns later this year aswell!!

I love your videos I think there the best on KZfaq

Great to see Uno!!

started my first reef tank 2 weeks ago

Im currently trying to setup a planted tank and I am going to be at Aquashella hope to be able to meet you there fingers crossed.

Missed you brother

What actually got me into reefing was about 10 years ago my dad and I would raise clownfish. We did this for about 2 years, the most successful batches would be us letting the babies hatch in tank turn all pumps off and using a flashlight and turkey baster get them all out one by one. Hope this helps!

Got my ticket already! And the newest thing I tried was my 80 gallon lagoon tank that I’ve been wanting for the longest time and today just got a master scoly hoping it survives🤞🏼

It might be cannibalism. Saw a TedTalk video on this - specially for frogs and fishes. The dominant fry eats others so it doesn't have to compete for food. Makes it grow faster. Happened with my betta fry as well - there were a dozen and then overnight the number dwindled to two. Maybe you have to add more food but then clean the water fast enough that you don't get ammonia? Not sure though.

Uno just built different

Maybe you should try to put your fry Tank higher and Start a syphon instead the pump so you get always the Same tank Level ....

Nothing new yet but I wanna try a moorish idol

New to me bigger display tank and I think it's finally ready for water.

See you at aquashella remy

Hey did uno survive? I hope you master the breading process good luck.

I'm trying my hand at keeping a pygmy angel. He's almost out of QT.🤞 Glad everything is good with you.

Was wondering where u where..😊

I have a black snowflake clown and a flurry clown paired , that just started laying eggs. My first time at this, I’m going to try switching the rock the eggs are on into my quarantine tank the sixth night. First round of eggs the clowns ate them all the sixth night.....I think🤔.

I don't know how you're going through all of this, man. I'd take every loss so hard. Driving 10 hours down to Aquashella as well.

New this year. Getting back into it after 5 years.

Thats why clown fish lay so many eggs because a lot May not find favriable condiciones so most of the time only 1 or 2 May Survive. And other factors people sont come at me because i realize theres other reasons that might cause this.

Hi bahama, how we can make sure our clownfishs is pairing. Yesterday i bought small black storm and 7 days latter i bought big size phantom clownfish.. Thanks

I wish you showed us uno!

I just got a tomini tang, and a rainbow anemone that my mocha storm clownfish are already hosting!

New thing this year would be a pico tank

i started to put together a calcium reactor.... i am kind of intimidated by it but im leaping and going for it. Sick of dosing and want something more long term.

Love the naming, by some chance one one survives in the next clutch you have to call it, Trè, yes im a greenday fan, on a side note , I do hope you're doin ok man.

The whole reefing was basically new this year. One great thing was fragging and selling some stuff.

Would it be ideal to have a 5 gallon tank set aside ready to take the clownfish eggs out the reef tank and let them grow a little bit in the small tank ??

Hey Remy, Let me know if you need help with the syphon method. I got you! I've done it tons of times!

Maybe try a Vossen larvae trap- I hear people have great success with those, and that’s what I’m planning to use if my guys ever restart spawning.

You can ask a guy name Trent Holthaus. He is a breeder in Vegas that I buy my clownfish from. He is on ROLV Facebook page. Good luck!

Early gang

Unos all over the place