Black Maroon Clownfish?

[AquaKnight]

How common, if at all, are black maroon clownfish? I was making the rounds at my parents place over Thanksgiving and one of the LFS's had a solo maroon clown, but it was jet black. The tank didn't have the greatest lighting, so it could just have been a really dark Maroon. Searching online I found some more royal purple'ish Maroon's, but this guy (or girl probably, good 4" big), was definitely a deep black. Very, very similar to a McCullochi's black coloring. She had all 3 stripes, and at 4" the stripes were quite thin. I'm almost not an idiot and can tell it wasn't a B&W occelaris. Definitely Premnas biaculeatus.

Lemme know if it's something worth investigating. I could always try to send my parents back to sneak pic (which I didn't think to take at the time :hammer: ).

 

[Slakker]

Probably very very dark...the females especially tend to darken up as they mature.

One of the LFS near me had a tomato clown that was so dark it looked black for the longest time...no one wanted to buy the poor girl (I nearly did every time I was in there...I've always loved tomato clowns, but sadly I had nowhere to house it long term.)

 

[LargeAngels]

Some maroons are so dark they look black in certain lighting.

There is a major breeder that has "Black" maroons. Not sure when they will available, and its not ORA.

 

[Jeff]

Mine has gotten darker over the years and much meaner too.

 

[AquaKnight]

Thanks for posting everyone. Yea, she was very close to Jeff's pic (though a white stripe, not a GSM).

Interesting LA, those should be really pretty. Do you know if they were gold or whtie striped? That was the stunning part of the one I saw, the contrast with the sharp very vibrant white stripes and black'ish body.

 

[LargeAngels]

I don't know. It is C-Quest doing it. I remember Bill Addison once telling me he had one HUGE pair of maroons that laid such big nests that he got 8,000 fish out of one big nest.