Clown?

mitlik1

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I have a big female tomato clown, Amphiprion frenatus, and just received what appears to be a male cinnamon clown, Amphiprion melanopus. They have not been fighting. I was wondering if they could mate. Same genus, but different species.
 
I bet there wouldn't be any problems getting them to hybridize....they practically look identical anyway!

Matt
 
The male is not as dark as at the female. I know it works for dogs, but wasn't sure about fish being a little more picky perhaps. What is weird is the female clown is mean toward any new comers even bigger tangs. The little male, didn't bother him a bit. I honestly don't believe they will mate, but you never know. Any tips?
 
actually thats one of the most prolific pairs you can make the nests are about 8-900 eggs and they are very good parents, I seen 2 pairs and owned 1 pair.

i stopped raising them back in april still got about 2k of them.

Ed
 
Ed, what does the Frenatus X melanopus look like...since they're already so similar.

FWIW, just my $0.02, but if you know its frenatus X melanopus, do sell them as such, not just "Tomato Clowns" or "Cinnamon Clowns". Making a hybrid between two such species kinda runs it down the line (won't rant further on this subject, we've done that in the past already ;) )

MP
 
I understand about the biodiversity aspect and would not do that if by miracle they do breed and the fry survive. I was just curious if they would.
 
Looks funny, like real cinamon, we called yuck clowns at home( imagine tomato with cinamon)

I got them from morgan lindster he told me they were very prolific, he was right I lost like 4 pounds working with them, in occassions they would spawn after 6 days.

My costumers that don't know sell them as cinamon the only one that knows calls them tomato complex clowns.

There is a couple of pics in my gallery.

Ed
 
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