| Heh, always a good idea cheeks69, to know you enemy, errr, I mean pet. Or maybe master is more adequate. The real biter of it is that the difference between amphiprion percula and a. ocellaris is about 2 tenths of Not Much. I think it's the fin rays that seperate them. Maybe something else, not sure.
Well, unless it's one of those a. ocellaris' with the colour form only native to Darwin. Pure black and white. I like them.
Also, the Sumatran colour form of the premnas biaculeatus is spectacular; Maroon clown with thick gold striping bordered by thin with then black lines. Very nice. Only ever seen one though.
Errr, whoops, a little off track. But yeah, I've also found that the ocellaris are a little bit more hardy and breed a little easier in captivity. I think that it may be because the percula is much more restricted in it's geographical spread. And if that's the case, just make sure that there is food available (maybe like some nori weighted down), stay away from any terrestrial food, beware the cryptocaryon infestation (particularly wild caught), and leave them alone, cause old mate percula don't like swings in water conditions much at all.
Either which, sounds fairly normal to me, especially seeing as how the condition of the fish sounds great.
I like clown fish. Good luck! |