No, I’m not making that up. The Percula Clownfish (Amphiprion percula)... AKA Nemo... was originally named after Mike Tyson. This is a verifiable fact, and, what’s more, today is this fish’s birthday. So please join me in wishing Mike Tyson’s Clownfish the very best on this special [...]
During my twenty plus years keeping reef tanks I have usually had a pair of clownfish in my display. I just love them. Not only are they colorful, but they can exhibit some really cool behavior when they host a coral and/or mate and lay eggs. As I detailed in an earlier blog post, designer [...]
A recently published study is helping to shed some light upon a fascinating and poorly understood evolutionary puzzle concerning a group of familiar reef fishes. Within the hugely diverse genus Amphiprion, there is a distinctive lineage formed from species that have a white stripe along the back, [...]
A non-melanistic pair of the Yellowtip Anemonefish, seen at Saipan. Credit: Goodtime As part of my ongoing series documenting undescribed species of the Amphiprion clarkii group, let’s journey to the Mariana Arc to find yet another distinctive fish in need of recognition. This chain of [...]
A Melanistic pair of Amphiprion milii from Darwin, Australia. Credit: Cameron Bee / Monsoon Aquatics Monsoon Aquatics made waves recently with the discovery of a couple new species of Cirrhilabrus in the Timor Sea, and they’re at it again with the collection of one of the rarer [...]
Whitemargin Anemonefish Amphiprion cf latifasciatus. Credit: Barnett Shutman / Golden Coast Until the introduction of captive bred specimens a few years ago, the Wideband Anemonefish (Amphiprion latifasciatus) was one of the rarest and priciest species of anemonefish in the aquarium trade, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=321BTWKuAYk There’s only one species of anemonefish recorded from the Red Sea, so, in theory, there should be no great difficulty identifying the fish seen in this video. Is it from the Red Sea? Is it swimming in an anemone? Well then, we’ve got [...]
https://youtu.be/vtTeoy5sCoM?t=12s There are plenty of rare anemonefishes in the world, but few are quite so enigmatic as the species found along the southern shores of Oman—Amphiprion omanensis. This is one of the only remaining members of the genus to have not yet been kept in captivity or [...]
