Can anyone ID these clowns(video)

Ssteve

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Had a percula for a couple weeks and then picked up another clown. Just advertised as a true black clown. They have been getting along just fine for the most part, but after some reading Im beginning to question my purchase as Im reading black and white clowns are ocellaris and they will fight when they get older. Anyone had success with a perc and oc growing up together? The original clown to the tank(oranage/white true perc) has taken the female role, and the black/white doesnt seem to mind but the blk/wht clown is a bit larger already than the true perc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNBOMfhoIdQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUQmTR703AERzuurCUdHheBg
 
i would have to see a closer picture of your other fish to be sure, but from what i am seeing.....you have two ocellaris clownfish. one just happens to be of the black variety.
 
This is the best I could get from shots on my phone of the orange clown.

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Well five days into introducing the new clown and they still aren't very friendly with one another. The original clown will swim around the tank, and sporadically just darts over to put the new clown in his place. The new clown just kind of runs for a split second and that's as far as it goes. Then a minute or two later, same thing. The new clown kind of just keeps to himself, but if the original clown comes near him he isn't bothered by it at all... No rips or marks on either fish, just sporadic aggressive from one.

I had planned to move them both to my 35g on Monday, but I'm wondering if maybe I should take the clown back to the LFS, or if maybe I can curb the original clowns bully tendencies by acclimating him a few days after so he feels like he's coming into the new clowns house?
 
Update: moved my clowns over from my 14g biocube to my 24x24 35g.. They are like best friends now. Won't leave each other's side and swim the whole tank together. I'm assuming it's because the female had gotten territorial over the biocube and it was "her house", and now they just signed a mortgage on a new place together so it's "their place".
 
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