Sometimes it seems like every fish we enjoy in our aquariums is bound to have a turn at exhibiting aberrant coloration, and this week’s freaky fish is this odd blackface bicinctus clownfish. Amphiprion bicinctus also known as the two-banded clownfish is…
Amphiprion thiellei and A. leucokranos are two beautiful natural clownfish hybrids
Clownfishes are pretty promiscuous as far as fishes go, and many are capable of forming hybrids. There are only two genera of anemone fish, with the monotypic Premnas playing host to the pugnacious maroon clownfish, and the rest being placed in…
What is going on with this weird captive bred clownfish?
Pictured here is a very peculiar looking color pattern of a captive bred clownfish which got us doing more than a few double-takes when we spotted it in Italy. This “two and a half barred” clownfish looks more or less…
Oman Clownfish can make epic Journeys
That is according to a new report from Steve Simpson of the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Steve and his colleagues studied Oman anemonefish (Amphiprion omanensis) which is unique to the Arabian Sea off Oman. The group studied two separate…
The Nebula Percula – Not A Made Up Name
Designer Clownfish are more popular than ever; over the summer of 2014 I’ve spent endless hours researching both the genetic and hybrid forms of designer clownfishes out there. I spoke on the topics of genetics, hybrids, and geographic variants at the…
ORA shows off their first captive bred leucokranos clownfish
Amphiprion leucokranos is a coveted hybrid-species of clownfish which is only very rarely available, usually from the Solomon Islands. But if you made it to MACNA 2014 this weekend you could have seen a display with half a dozen of…
White bonnet tomato clownfish has got us scratching our heads
The white bonnet anemonefish, Amphiprion leucokranos, is generally regarded to be a hybrid cross between a pink skunk and a bluestripe clownfish. So imagine out surprise when we stumbled across a video that purportedly shows what appears to be a White bonnet…
The longfin black darwin ocellaris clownfish is real! (video)
Not only is the longfin clownfish from Sea & Reef Aquaculture a real fish, but we’ve also got the video to prove it. The real April Fool’s joke of yesterday’s posting of only the second known longfin clownfish to be…
Longfin clownfish discovered among Sea & Reef’s black Darwin Ocellaris
Longfin clownfish are still the white buffalo of the captive breeding world and now it looks like we’ll be seeing longfin clownfish from the black Darwin ocellaris. The Longfin Darwin Ocellaris was found by one of Sea & Reef Aquaculture’s…
Walt Smith’s Fijian Lightning Blue Stripe Clownfish
My jaw hit the floor when I saw this fish – a wild, yellow-tailed Fijian Blue Stripe Clownfish (Amphiprion chrysopterus) collected this week and first shared by Walt Smith International. What has my mind blown is this – the patterning…
