After more than three years since the discovery of the first Lightning Maroon Clownfish, lightning struck twice for marine fish breeder Matt Pedersen as he successfully raised a crop of Premnas biaculeatus from PNG with the crazy lightning pattern on the first clutch. No one expected that this level of success would be achieved on the Read More

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The Goldflake Maroon Clownfish is the latest and greatest new clownfish strain from the trailblazing fish breeders over at Oceans, Reef & Aquariums. Other breeders such as Mike Hoang have been producing similar fish called goldflake maroon clownfish, which is the name adopted by ORA. The golflake maroon clownfish is endowed with a great degree Read More

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Lightning maroon clownfish have spawned, hatched, and already the first little bits of banding in the F1 generation show super promising aberrations of banding which will have the clownfish breeders very excited. Even though the maroon lighting maroon clownfish was paired with a related Premnas biaculeatus from Papua New Guinea, we don’t think anyone really expected Read More

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It only took 18 months but our very own Matt Pedersen has finally succeeded in growing up the lightning maroon clownfish and pairing it with compatible partner. When the lightning maroon clownfish was initially imported, it was so small that it had to be the male in the clownfish match-making game, making it vulnerable to Read More

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The misbar maroon clownfish is a domestic strain that we always knew would eventually arise out of the mass culture of Premnas biaculeatus. What we didn’t expect from the misbar maroon is for it to develop totally different bar/stripe aberrations that are more piebald than say the more reticulating and boldly outlined bars of Amphiprion Read More

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Misbar maroon clownfish are nothing new, they’ve been popping up sporadically in clutches of normally patterned maroon clownfish for years but ORA’s got a pair that’s been throwing off something a little different. A week ago in Orlando, ORA brought along a few of these oddball mis-barred maroon clowfish which have been showing up in Read More

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Rare fish lovers, it’s time we brought you an update on the SEASMART-collected, Lightning Maroon Clownfish from Papua New Guinea (PNG). Forgive the water clarity – the female Maroon Clown is always “digging”.  Forgive the camera work – it was shot with one hand using a Nikon D5000.  Forgive the focus – it would appear Read More

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This one is all for Jake and his rare fish fetish.  By no means high quality video here…this was shot with my waterproof & shockproof Olympus Digital Camera.  But for anyone who’s been through for a loop by Jake & Guin’s truly masterful April Fool’s Prank, rest assured the “other” 2010 Lightning Maroon, the one Read More

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The Lightning Maroon Clownfish from Papua New Guinea is the newest feather in the cap of the Seasmart Program and thanks to decisions being made at Blue Zoo Aquatics, the lightning maroon clownfish may eventually become a shining example of sustainability and ethics in the marine aquarium trade. In an unprecedented turn of events, Blue Read More

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This magnificent maroon clownfish Premnas biaculeatus was recently caught in Papua New Guinea by famed fish collector Steve Robinson.  As far as we know this individual is one of a kind but perhaps with more collections other similar specimens may be discovered. If this is a sign of things to come then it seems like Read More

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