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My Ocellaris Clownfish
Ocellaris Clownfish Photos

I wish I had time to write about the various species and types of clownfish. Instead, I will just tell you about mine.

I got my first saltwater fish ever on 5/21/08. I got one regular Ocellaris clownfish, also called a false percula clownfish and one black and white Ocellaris clownfish from Australia. The regular one is Nemo (for my 3 year old niece) and the other one was Crusty (as in Crusty the clown from the Simpsons). They were very active, like to swim in the current, and love to eat!

On 5/27/08, I noticed Crusty had a few little white things under his chin in the morning. By the time I came home, he had a white film on his right pectoral fin. I do not know if the skin was sloughing off or bacteria or fungus was involved. Since the tank has corals in it, I cannot treat the fish with any chemicals. I also noticed that Crusty wanted to eat but that Nemo would slam in to him if he tried. The morning of 5/28/08, I found Crusty's poor little dead buddy stuck to the filter intake. Crusty was a $50 fish, and I really was looking forward to enjoying him and watching him become black and white (he was only starting to change). I was told that two young Ocellaris clownfish that are added at the same time would get along but they did not. If I had known, I would NOT have gotten two of them. I am hoping Crusty died from Nemo though and not from poor water quality or something contagious. As of 6/7/08, Nemo is still fine.

Update 8/14/08: Nemo is fine. He does not do much except eat and swim in place.

Photos are listed from oldest to newest. There are photos of my reef on my reef photos page. Some of those photos also show the clownfish. I did not include all of those here on this page.

These two photos are from 5/22/08 after I added the two Ocellaris clownfish, four corals, and seven snails (who all died).
Nemo (bottom) and Crusty (top)
Nemo (bottom) and Crusty (top)

These two photos I was taking of the corals from 5/25/08 also have Nemo in them.
Nemo
Nemo

This is a photo of poor dead Crusty on 5/28/08. This was the first time I realized my digital camera had a macro feature so you can see him in detail, even veins under the skin. He was 1.25".
Dead Crusty

I took these photos of Nemo on 5/31/08:
Nemo
Nemo
Nemo

I took a video of the two fish (Nemo the oscellaris clownfish and Jose the firefish) on 6/7/08:
Movie - 1818 KB mpg movie of Nemo and Jose.

Entire reef on 6/13/08 - you can see Nemo the clownfish and Jose the firefish

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This site has photos and information about the clownfish too. The first photo is the regular one while the other is the black and white ones.: