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I breed clowns and know first hand, you can feed your baby clowns pellet foods as early as 7 days. You can order foods from Reed Mariculture called Top Dressed Otohime (TDO). This food can be extremely small. Reed also sells instant algaes, which instead of growing your own phyto, which can be a complete pain... You just add the instant algae to your rotifer culture once or twice per day, and they are more nutritional than would be if on phyto IMO. I've gone a different direction and used a pepper mill to grind down my regular New Life Spectrum pellets to be small enough for them to eat.

The main thing to think about when breeding clownfish is how long is going to take you to sell a nest of babies. If you think 6 months average growing period for ocellaris to be a salable size, and a nest of 200 fish... How much are you going to spend on foods for these 200 fish, are you going to be able to house them comfortably for the time period they're in your care.. Who are you selling them to.. and how much are you going to sell them for.

The thing about maroon clowns is not everyone wants one. Most people just want nemo for their kids to see... Or a clown for the sake of having a saltwater tank and a clown. So where someone could sell 200 ocellaris in a month or two to multiple stores... you're going to have a far harder time selling 200 maroons. Not to mention they'll take longer to grow I'm sure. (I don't have maroons)

If you leave them, they'll continue to lay eggs for their lifetime, random events may cause they to stop for awhile. You could also sell them to other breeders who are looking for a spawning pair.