Sebae's And Anenome's

[highquality]

I think you have a clark's . not a sebae." True sebae have two bands" only in shape of an s. "They also have yellow tailfins". J. W.

 

[highquality]

oh ok i see , dark clarki black with white tail. There is also a yellow tailwith thin white stripe at small . anyways good luck .

 

[adtravels]

Hi just to add to the discussion I think telling clarks and sebae apart is relatively easy in adult fish due to the shape of the head and body. However telling polymnus and sebae apart seems very difficult, and even some experts have difficulty. However according to fautin and allens book on anemonefish the sebae has a complete second bar which is almost diagonal and a yellow tail with no vertical bar howevr this may have some black white edging. polymnus has an incomplete second bar no yellow and white edges to the tail but it seems a little vague and. I believe seeing as their ranges overlap slightly (indonesia) and they share the haddoni anemone as a host (polymnus also hosts h. crispa and m. doreensis) there could even be hybrids of the two making it even more difficult but may explain the black and white that appears on some sebaes tails and variations in second bars.
If you have juveniles it will be almost impossible to tell between the two.

One thing both polymnus and sebae are beautiful and feisty (They have attacked me whilst diving) anemonefishes.

 

[akrimmel]

so if these are clarki's then what anenome will they host in? and by chance if they are sebae's is it possible for a clarki and a sebae to host in the same species of an anenome?

 

[adtravels]

Naturally clarks host in all 10 clown hosting anemone.
sebaes only naturally host haddoni carpet anemones.

but may host others in captivity.

 

[akrimmel]

so like usual there is only one way to find out.

 

[highquality]

And of course to make things more confusing there is polymnus ( saddle back) color morph that has like three white bars and white edge around tail fin. (two full bars and one more at small of tail and then white edging around end of tail.) Something like that anyways. Ive seen four colors in the A. Polymnus. But if your fish has start of white band at tail that fades into all white tail, and gold fins outlined in black except for on back , then thats why i would say clarki. no yellow tail and no saddle . I too think they are all great fish.

 

[akrimmel]

i just wanted a pair different from most as everyone has the nemos or the morphs of nemos.