My Picasso pair spawned early this morning. I had been expecting them to lay for about a week so it was good to see it happen. Of course, being as that this is the first time either of these fish have spawned, they both ate the eggs very quickly. What is interesting however is that the female seems to be re-hydrating and they are still cleaning a lot...I won't be surprised if I wake up and find another nest. Anyway, I am expecting them to eat the first few spawns until they get it right, then I will start raising them.

The female of this pair is WC from Bali, purchased in March 09' and the male is of unknown origins (although I still suspect ORA until proven otherwise...).

Here is a video of the pair this morning. Sorry for the bad quality, it was from my cell phone. You can see them picking at the eggs/cleaning.



Colby

Great video and thats pretty sweet. Congrats.

Thanks!

Very Nice video and love your picasso!

Thanks much! I am pretty stoked. I am trying to develop my "own" strain of Picasso, by which I mean start with WC fish out cross etc. Unfortunately, the only Picassos out there aside from the ones ORA are producing are Picassos that came from ORA.

I am hoping to set my own strain.

It will be exciting to see the babies.

Colby

Congrats Colby! Great news!

This is cool. Hoopefully you can get some cool fish!!!!!!I've got some really cool ones from hyperboy (jonathan) but I am always on the lookout for good looking ones so maybe you will have some!!!!!I was waiting for christosclowns to come up with some but it sounds like all of his died and he isn't raising clownfish anymore. Keep us posted. By the way have you ever talked to hyperboy and shared info? You really should I saw his setup a few weeksago again and he has got something really cool going on I promised I would keep quiet about it but it is going to be amazing!!!!!!!

Awesome cloby all those phone conversations dude there cleaning pretty soon lol awesome man im sure ill talk to you tonight lol and USF never said i wasnt raising clowns anymore in fact more spawns than i know what to do with. With the help from Colbly we firgured out the problem. Colby knows his shiat see ya bro

I am sorry you said ina post a few days ago that yopu had a bad case of vibro and was building a new system. I asked if you were raising any picassos and you said you had not. Anyway have you seen jonathans setup and seen the new things he's got going there!!!!!!colby if I were you I would contact him you guys would get along great!!!!!

ITS OK USF BUT NO I HAVENT SEEN JOHNATHANS ID LIKE TO THOUG ONE DAY

Colby your fish are going to be sweet! Congratulations!!!!

I cant wait to see what markings the wild caught female and that picasso make. It will beinteresting to see and i guarantee you one thing they are in the best hands as far as raising them goes. I have known colby for about a year and i have to say i have spoken to many Johnathan is very good at what he does and very inteliegnt but i thought my passion for clownfish was insane Colby has me beat thats for sure. If anyone deserves to have some potentially sick fish its def Colby

USF and Christos, thank you for the compliments, but lets stick to the original post.

Colby, do you have any idea what generation your ORA male is? If not, what is his age. I am extremely interested to see how strong the "Picasso gene" is in a true wild caught picasso. Please don't hesitate to show the progress of development in the patterns. If you don't have access to a good camera, I think I heard once you are still in college, take pictures with the help of a specimen scope. That way you don't smuch any larvae and/or fry under a slide.

Thanks for the compliments guys.


I do not know what generation my male is, and as I said I do not even know for sure that he is ORA. My guess is that he is, because he really looks like it...however he did not come from ORA, and the place I got him from said he was WC and ORA has never sold there...so it is a mystery.

I will absolutely make a developmental series, I agree it will be fun to watch.

I will keep everyone updated!

Colby

Just an update, my female is hydrating again and the pair are cleaning like cray in preparation for the next spawn. I will try and get a better camera and make a better video this time.

Colby

Did you get a hatch from the first spawn?

That's a nice female.

Thanks Mew! I really like her...

Colby

Congrats on the spawn! Question: How's your fry tank set up? I have a Breeding pair ( Female Black Onyx/Male ORA mis-bar perc's) and have spawned consistantly for 3 months and I haven't been able to raise one past 6-7 days. I've tried a lot of different things and all seem to fail for me. Hopefully you can do better than I have! Again congrats, I love picasso's too.

Thanks Llewos!

I typically raise the fry in anything from a 5 gallon tank to a 200 gallion tub. At the moment the larval and Growout systems are going to be ten gallon tanks, albeit a bit modified. I do have a few techniques I employ to get better color and finnage...

I also do not keep as many fish per tank as is possible, i.e. 800 larva in 5 gallons of water. It can be done, however I do not recommend it if you want high quality fish. I have done the raise as many fish as you can thing, but these days I am focusing solely on quality.

If you have questions or need help feel free to ask, and congrats on your pair spawning! I do apologize in advance if it takes me a little bit to get back to you, I am real busy right now...

Colby

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