A couple of spawns

I bought a pair of ocellaris clownfish + and anemone on a forum here a year ago -- I finally moved them to a private tank so I could collect some eggs. They are WAY past their expected hatch date but I still have an exciting thing to check every morning.



Without the terrorizing presence of the clownfish (they can be real jerks, I'm learning), my neon gobies have also risked a spawn. It's deep down in a PVC cave so hard to see but it definitely looks like something is going on down there.



With reef fish I'm pretty sure getting eggs is the easy part.

Just so happens, someone posted a picture of clownfish embryos, 1-, 3-, 5- and 9-days of development from the Nikon microphotography contest.

For the record, this is the orange clownfish, Amphiprion percula.

Those are great photos! My clownfish eggs looked like that last frame for more than a week and then most of them died Going to try warmer water next time.