Golden-orange clownfish is a wild-collected stunner

What do you get when you cross a tangerine orange clownfish with a naked ocellaris? You’d probably end up with a mess, but in a perfect world where your clownfish-breeding hoop dreams come true on F1 (Like Matt’s Lightning clowns),…

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…

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…

New Tangerine Ocellaris clownfish from Proaquatix is hypo-melanistic, almost an albino

Albino clownfish may be currently limited to South Africa but in the meantime, Proaquatix’s Tangerine Ocellaris clownfish is getting pretty close. With red eyes, bright orange body and almost completely devoid of black, the tangerine clownfish appears to be hypo-melanistic,…