A very rare clown IMHO

[Baalz]

A melanistic ? Orange Ocellaris.
This clowns parents and grand parents are Orange Ocellaris clowns. I have bred 10s of thousands of clowns from these pairs. Never once have I seen one come out black like this. He is currently about a 1/2" in size.

 

[GSMguy]

nice looking baby clown you have there that is really cool

 

[flowerkid]

do you have any pics of the tanks and other things you use to breed them. Breeding fish has always intrested me...

 

[Anemone]

Now, whether he stays that color or not...

Kevin

 

[Slakker]

WOW....he's gorgeous!

 

[Baalz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9702557#post9702557 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Anemone
Now, whether he stays that color or not...

Kevin

He has been that color since morphing. I posted some pics in the fish breeding forum about a month ago. I'd think it would be a good assumption he would stay this color.

 

[traveller7]

Nice variation Baalz, it's a keeper ;>)

I would assume it would actually darken as it matured. I surely hope you have space/time to grow it out.

 

[Tyler.L]

mine looks like that i got him cruising around in my tank now lol hes cute

 

[Bmgrocks]

perhaps ur Parent Clowns Simply Carry the Black Color Gene, that has hasn't come out until now?

 

[Baalz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9706099#post9706099 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bmgrocks
perhaps ur Parent Clowns Simply Carry the Black Color Gene, that has hasn't come out until now?

I'd believe that if I saw anything even remotely close to this in all the clowns I have hatched. Been breeding Ocellaris for over 5 years straight and never saw one even close.

 

[Jovreefer]

Will you be keeping this one? Would be awsome to pair it with another black & white and see if it breeds true!

I think we might be seeing how black and whites came about in the wild! simply amazing!

And to think... people spend hundreds of dollars to get a WC black and white for new gene's... all you had to do was raise a couple thousand regulars lol.

 

[Baalz]

Pretty sure I'm gonna keep him.

 

[arcab4]

haha. he sure does stand out. one of my clowns has that color variation. it's the smallest one in the tank so maybe the color will change as it matures.

 

[Baalz]

Actually he is blacker then the photo shows. The flash lightened up his colors.

I have had adult Ocellaris get pretty dark from interacting with corals and such. But they are always orange when young. This clown is in a bare tank.

 

[walmart]

Looks really cool, eventually i want to breed clowns. how much do you think you could get if you sold one.

 

[Bmgrocks]

i think that it is a recessive trait, that has simply not come out

reguardless of how many normal babies have appeared, this one just so happened to pick up the gene

I the Gene is obviously embedded in the parents, for the offspring to come out black.

its simply like other recessive traits,

 

[rgaskins]

Nice pic!

 

[Slakker]

IME this is a genetic mutation, not a recessive trait. For some reason I would think that if it was a genetic trait, it would have come up more than just this one fish.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the Black ocellaris variants are lighter than this as juvi's, aren't they?

Good luck, and keep us updated!

 

[Anemone]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9711355#post9711355 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bmgrocks
i think that it is a recessive trait, that has simply not come out

reguardless of how many normal babies have appeared, this one just so happened to pick up the gene

I the Gene is obviously embedded in the parents, for the offspring to come out black.

its simply like other recessive traits,

I don't know about that. Certain color charateristics (misbars) can be caused in the rearing process, so who really knows what subtle environmental cue might have caused the expression of this particular color variation?

Kevin

 

[OrionN]

I don't think we have enough information to make any call at this point. Baalz will just have to grow him out and see what he will be like. Then breeding and observe the offspring. Only then we may have some information to determine the characteristic of this phenotype, if it is indeed a mutation.