Yeah, that's what I figured... If only I could talk my girlfriend into letting me setup a huge tank... and talk someone else into paying for it all!!! I have plenty of fish in my tank already (so wisdom would tell me not to add much more anyway), but there's something I really like about the Clarkii's and I was hoping that it might work out.
Matt... since I have you on the line... besides the number of spines on their dorsal fine, is there a way to tell a black ocellaris from a black percula? Since they are black, coloration is kind of out of the picture and I can't get them to hold still long enough to count their dorsal spines. The reason I ask is that I got a black clown with my tank (someone I knew wasn't taking care of their tank and wanted to get rid of it. I thought I'd try a salt tank since their equipment, fish, and rock helped me get over most of the obstacles that I had with getting into reef tanks) and I never knew the species. I wanted to get another clown to make a pair. I bought what I think is an ocellaris (who knows because no LFS's seems to really differentiate them) and now that I have them in the tank together they look quite different (i.e., I think the first one must have been a perc... the front of its dorsal fin is more rounded, its white bands are thicker, and he is almost totally jet black at a size when all of the ocellaris' I've seen still have a lot of orange on their noses). It doesn't much matter to me as they seem to get along well, but I just want to know...
.
