Will Ocellaris pair with Percula?
Yes, it is possible for Percs and Ocellaris to pair up, and even breed.
How can you tell an ocellaris clownfish?
Ocellaris (or False Percula) Clownfish
- Thin black lines outlining the white stripes.
- Dark eyes with a little hint of orange.
- There are only 11 spines that make up the dorsal fin.
What is the difference between a clownfish and a false clownfish?
Some people say that you can tell that a True Percula Clownfish is a True Percula Clownfish because it is sold under its scientific name: Amphiprion percula. The False Percula has very thin black lines separating the white from the orange color, sometimes so thin that the black is imperceptible.
How do you tell a Percula from Ocellaris?
The Ocellaris clownfish has dark coloring around its eyes, 11 dorsal spines, and thin black borders around its white bands. The Percula clownfish, or True clownfish, has more orange color around the eyes, ten dorsal spines, and thick black outlining around the white bands.
Are Ocellaris clownfish aggressive?
The Ocellaris Clownfish is widely considered the least aggressive of the Clownfish species, some reefers have reported some of the more collectible species to be aggressive toward humans, but not often aggressive towards fish.
Are ocellaris clownfish aggressive?
Can different types of clownfish breed?
you can’t mate two fish of different species, but two ocellaris clowns, two percs, etc can mate and the offspring will be a hybrid of the two. This is like a black woman and white man having a child. Same species just two different colors.
What is the difference between Ocellaris and Percula clownfish?
Why are clown fish black?
All are very bad colors and part of a dying algae cycle according to my LFS. The colors start out a brownish color then turn green, then purple, then orange, and when they are finally done dying off, white.