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New albino clownfish appear in a clutch of black ocellaris

The albino clownfish which were discovered in a clutch of black ocellaris clownfish may not be as light and ghostly as a typical pink and white albino fish, but those red eyes are definitely not standard issue on a clownfish. The unusual albino-like clownfish were discovered by Tom Lamb of Cultured Critters in a batch Read More

Guest contributor Adeljean Ho weighs in on the Proaquatix Tangerine ocellaris clownfish

Adeljean Ho was introduced to me by Dr. Matt Wittenrich at MACNA in Orlando. When discussing this fish with Dr. Wittenrich, he suggested that Adeljean had another opinion. After sharing a draft of my opinion post with him, the response from Adeljean was impressive. Adeljean, a PhD student in fish biology & ornamental aquaculture at Read More

Some analysis of the ‘albino’ ocellaris clownfish from Proaquatix

As ReefBuilder’s resident “Captive Breeding Guy”, I couldn’t help but weigh in on the new strain of Ocellaris that debuted from Proaquatix at MACNA over the weekend.  A few opinions of what these fish could represent have been floated, with Dr. Wittenrich calling them leusicstic and Jake Adams dubbing them hypomelanistic. In what could be Read More

US imports of Albino Clownfish delayed by bureaucracy

In August, 2010, we reported that Proaquatix would be the worldwide distributor for Marcel Triessl’s Albino Ocellaris Clownfish.  Designer Clownfish enthusiasts were salivating and hoping for a short wait.  Sadly, governmental regulations in South Africa have been holding up the process of exportation as recently reported by Marcel, who wrote, “Here in South Africa growing Read More

ORA begins releasing platinum percula clownfish

The nearly all white percula clownfish which we first reported back in November have started being released with a precious name and a precious price. The nearly all white clownfish which are descendants of the picasso clownfish strain will be known as Platinum Perculas and ORA livestock specialist Ocean Gallery II is first to have Read More

Albino Ocellaris clownfish make their world debut!

Do you like albino clownfish? First time clownfish breeder and MOFIB member Marcel was incredulous to find that one of his first successfully raised batches of clownfish contained about 20-30 albino Ocellaris clownfish in a clutch of ~300 fry. Marcel hasn’t specified the exact age of the clutch but guessing that the fry have all Read More