You refuse to buy captive bred fish and prefer to take them from the reef? This makes zero sense. The goal for this hobby should always be to purchase the sustainable option so we are not causing additional harm to the environment.
Who cares what the lineage is of your fish. Ora sells regular looking clowns I'm sure they aren't different than wild caught in your tank.
Taking clownfish from the reef doesn't have much negative impact, especially if the breeding pair or some juveniles are left behind in the anemone.
The real impact comes from removing anemones as the number of anemones determines the number of possible anemonefish pairs.
With "lineage" I mean that I want to know who the parents and their parents were down to the region from where the original wild specimen were collected. With most captive bred clownfish you simply don't know if they came form a natural strain pair or if they were designer "cast-offs" that look normal but come from a designer pair.
This is of course only if you plan on breeding with your fish (which I do).
If you don't plan on breeding I don't care what you put together.
But if you may think about breeding at some point, you better make sure you know what you are breeding with.
If I could get deformity free tank bred fish that do not come from a designer strain and where the origin is know, I would definitely consider them. Flawless tank raised latezonatus for example.
As for deformities of captive bred clowns - nearly all commercially bred clowns in the US have some form of deformities to some degree. The most common is the underbite.
With designer clowns where coloration was the primary selection criteria things can be much worse.
