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Breeder ID: AMPOCE-031893-LICJOS-003

Date received: 3/18/93

Identification: Amphiprion ocellaris (Cuvier, 1830)

Geographic origin: Indo-Pacific

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Taxonomy: (after I.C.Z.N.)

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata

Class Osteichthyes

Order Perciformes Superorder Teleostei

Family Pomacentridae

Genus Amphiprion

Species ocellaris (Cuvier, 1830)

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Duration male(yr): 5.0

Size male (mm): 51

Duration female (yr): 5.0

Size female (mm): 64

Physical differences: Female is larger

Adult diet: Fresh dried krill, smelt roe, home-made frozen food

Pre-spawning activity: Typical substrate cleaning with male doing most of the work

Time spawning began: late afternoon / early evening

Area spawning occurred: on flower pot.

Frequency of spawning: 10- 16 days

Egg Description: tightly clustered oblong mass

Approximate quantity: 900 – 1000

Size: not indicated

Incubation: 9 nights

Time hatching occurred: Within one hour of darkness

Egg changes / development: Not indicated

Transfer / removal method: Cupping, siphoning

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Spawning tank size (liter): 37

Sides of tank covered? Yes, blue

Lighting & photo period: 1 cool white fluorescent and 1 actinic fluorescent, 17 hours

Filtration: Under gravel plus central system

Additives and dosages: none

Water temperature: 83 F

Specific gravity: 1.0205

pH: 8.3

Nitrate: 40 ppm (nitrate-nitrogen)

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Fry development / changes: Silver slivers that dart rather than swim ~ 6 mm at hatching with yolk sac.

First Food Offered: rotifers, continuous feeding

Second Food Offered: Day old Artemia

Survival

Week 1: 80%

Week 2: 60%

Week 3: 55%

Week 4: 55% Have raised up to 90% to day 35

Development description: Take on adult coloration in 7 – 8 days 

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Rearing tank size (liter): 75

Sides covered?: Yes, black

Lighting & photo period: Single aquarium fluorescent, continuous through day 12, then 15.5 hours

Filtration: Bare bottom. Central system after 4 days, full circulation after day 13

Additives & doses: none

Water temperature: 82 F

Specific gravity: 1.0205

pH: 8.2

Nitrate: 15 ppm

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Original description: Cuvier first described Amphiprion ocellaris in 1830 in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:399 in the Hist. Nat. Poiss. V.5 reference 999, from a specimen collected in Sumatra, Indonesia. Validated by Ida in Masuda et al., 1984 and Allen in 1991 as a synonym of A. ocellaris.

Word origin: Amphiprion is from the Greek roots amph, -i, -o, meaning Around, on both sides; double, and -prion which means a saw. The genus ocellaris is confusing; the Latin root o, meaning an egg; cell, –a, -i, meaning a cell; or perhaps ocell, =us, meaning little eye and -ris meaning laughter (little laughing eye?). The synonym melanurus is composed of the Greek roots melan, -o, meaning black; and ur, =a, -o, meaning tail (thus black tail). The synonym bicolor means two colors (bi = two).

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