Pics of what those who are lucky to have a clarion will look as an adult.
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Cantonesefish
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I wonder if these guys can also be kept in pairs?
I'm sure they can be. The adults are one of the only angelfish that shoal together. Also, I think it was ************ (there site is being worked on now so I can't access it) who recently showed a video of clarions and said that the adults didn't harass each other in the wholesalers tanks.
jnc914
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I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I would pass based on the posted pics. I often times wonder if people would find these fish as appealing if they were not considered rare. Now, if they kept their bright orange juvenile coloration as an adult, I wouldn't hesitate to add one to my tank.
jmaneyapanda
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Wow, I never thought I would hear someone say these fish are visually unappealing. I am a steadfast believer in "to each, their own". The vivd orange DOES tay with the adults over the midriff and tail, with the vivd blue edging, and mossy green. Man, they are just electric. Mine is really the only fambuoyant colored fish in my tank, more or less.
jmaneyapanda
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My clarion is dumber than soil. I once saw him try to eat a piece of frozen food, while he still had a piece of food in mis mouth.
ccampbell57
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I may be trying to pair mine up soon, but I want the right size...and the big tank has to be up first.
IMHO the contrast of the green face and the bright orange body is UNREAL! Pictures do not do these fish justice. In person they vertually glow. The blue on the edge of the fins and inside the body is striking...
IMHO the contrast of the green face and the bright orange body is UNREAL! Pictures do not do these fish justice. In person they vertually glow. The blue on the edge of the fins and inside the body is striking...
Yeah I was just going to comment to on the color. I think people see pics and they think wow the orange of blue of the juvis, but find me a fish that packs more color. Even as adults there is no orange fish out there that competes. (if I am proven wrong great 
) It doesn't need to have the mossy green or the dark back half the orange alone will make it the star fish forever because it will always stand out in a tank full or blues and reds and yellows and blacks. Also blue outlining can never really be captured in pics the way it glows on fish.
There is a video of a Japanese tank with a male clarion in it with a bunch of other rare fish and it stands out. I can't find the link right now but if I do I'll post it.
) It doesn't need to have the mossy green or the dark back half the orange alone will make it the star fish forever because it will always stand out in a tank full or blues and reds and yellows and blacks. Also blue outlining can never really be captured in pics the way it glows on fish.There is a video of a Japanese tank with a male clarion in it with a bunch of other rare fish and it stands out. I can't find the link right now but if I do I'll post it.
Cantonesefish
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Actually I was thinking more along the lines they might do better in groups than in pairs
cwoods8
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Most have never seen them in person..........pictures do them no justice...
the blue edging is ridicilous......candy basslet blue ridicilous!
Not quite true.... many fish are extreme attractice to collectors due to their rarity (in the hoby), not just their looks...
jmaneyapanda
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Redonkulous, if you will!!!
Ian
I <3 Corals!
Jeremy, you and your flamboyancy :lol:
cwoods8
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For months i have been say it, so that's how it is officially spelled!!:dance:
cortez marine
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They are colonial, social spawners.
They don't pair up like Queens and blues.
They mob in columns...then suddenly two will break out of the pack...do the shimmy together and then re-join the column.
100 lot schools are not uncommon.
So, since pairing them doesn't work, would be breeders need to think in terms of buying say a dozen.
I imagine only public aquariums could do this right...I mean with giant tanks and room to roam for a school of them.
Steve
They don't pair up like Queens and blues.
They mob in columns...then suddenly two will break out of the pack...do the shimmy together and then re-join the column.
100 lot schools are not uncommon.
So, since pairing them doesn't work, would be breeders need to think in terms of buying say a dozen.
I imagine only public aquariums could do this right...I mean with giant tanks and room to roam for a school of them.
Steve
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