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Patents for the process for commercially breeding Clowns were applied for on 2-4-2008 by a joint venture between BRKP & Institut De Recherch.
BRKP is the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Institut De Recherch is a French Company that specializes in aquatic research.
It took them 2 years to ...

Ryan,
I'd love to know more about this- do you know the reference?
There are a couple of Koi and Iridescent shark breeders/producers on the island, so the basic materials and know-how are available.
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I know the reference/source very well...I worked with them this past year as an intern/grant ...

If you are speaking of regular clown loaches then it has been done here in the US for a few years now. The University of FL was the first to successfully develop a commercialized protocol for production. It involves the use of hormone injection and hand stripping the fish for eggs/sperm. Quite ...

It sounds like the suspected female is definetly carrying eggs. However the unfortunate part is that the spawning trigger is pretty much non-existant in the home aquarium. I dont even think it has been documented in the wild, making it that much harder to predict what would work. Of course there is ...

They look great. Most likely farm raised.

-Ryan