Hybrid clownfish are usually the purview of wild collected livestock but Ocean, Reefs, & Aquariums has a long track record of interesting clownfish crosses. Whether intentional like the blood orange clownfish or accidental like any number of their clarki and…
Where the heck did this Maroonellaris clownfish come from?
A Maroonellaris is a hybrid clownfish cross between a maroon clownfish and an ocellaris clownfish. We generally don’t encourage hybridization in any kind of fish, but something about the genetic portmanteau of a big ole maroon clownfish and a slender…
Introducing the Split Face Clownfish, a Fire X Barberi Clownfish Hybrid
Clownfish breeder Paul Tremblay of 2 Clowns in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, has been working on a hybrid project since early February, 2015. The story goes like this according to Paul; “We had this nice wild female [Barberi Clownfish] by herself, and one of…
Sunset Mocha Clownfish is Latest Twist on Cocktail Clownfish
If anyone is left wondering what the real guppies of the marine aquarium world are, it’s the clownfish, specifically Amphiprion ocellaris, A. percula, the Darwin Black, and all the myriad variations that are being discovered and/or created. The combination of…
Citron Clownfish—Bali Aquarich’s New Intergeneric Hybrid Anemonefish
A very interesting clownfish was recently brought to my attention by MJ Jones, who saw the fish labeled as “CF217X” at east coast wholesaler Carolina Aquatics, asking what I thought it was. Anyone who has become enthralled with the Anemonefish produced…
ORA commercializes the Rare White Bonnet Clownfish
ORA finally debuted a project that they’ve been working on for a year (well, actually a decade if you count the total time they’ve pursued this clownfish variety). We finally have commercially available captive-bred F1 Amphiprion leucokranos, the White Bonnet…
Blood Orange Clownfish is ORA’s first intentional hybrid clown offering
The Blood Orange Clownfish looks at once very familiar but also inherently different. If you can’t put your finger on it that’s because the Blood Orange Clownfish is a hybrid between a maroon clownfish and an ocellaris clownfish – the…
Tomato x maroon clownfish is a wild cross-generic hybrid
When we think of hybrids we imagine extremely rare one-off specimens of an unlikely cross between two closely related species from the same genus. In most of theses cases the parents are pretty similar looking but this recently collected hybrid…
Accidental clownfish hybrids abound at ORA
Hybrid clownfish mostly take a backseat to clownfish varieties in the marine aquarium captive breeding world but wild clownfish crosses like Thielli clownfish and white-cap clownfish are always in high demand. We tend to think of wild clownfish crosses as…
