PREMNAS BIACULEATUS

Origin: Ocean Indus-Peaceful, since the India and Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, New Guinea, Australia and Solomon Islands.

Habitat:    Lagunes protégées habituellement être vus dans les récifs coralliens          between 1 and 17 metres of depth.

Morphology: It possesses three vertical lines of white colour or cream, that cross his body. The body and the fins are of an intense red colour , in the male and juvenile copies, being more  brown almost  black in the females. Have a distinctive thorn  in front of the operculum, to each side of the expensive. Achieve the 17 cm of length, in the case of the females, that, how in all the species of fish clown, are very greater that the male.

Maintenance: It is apt for aquarium of reef. If it goes to keep with other species, should to introduce young, and do it of such shape that is the last species to integrate to the group. It is not a demanding species with the conditions of maintenance, although it needs some environmental stability to avoid problems. It is indispensable to keep under minimum the nitrogenous compounds (ammonia, nitrites and nitrates) by means of changes of frequent and periodic water.

Ph: 8.1 - 8.4          Temperature: 24 -28 º C    Salinity: 1020-1024

Behaviour:  Quite territorial, has a aggressive behaviour with any companion of reef that approximate to his anemone, especially the species Enctacmea quadricolor, with which lives together in a mutualistic relation.

 Feeding: It accepts so much brine shrimp  and mysis frozen, as a food dry.

Reproduction: They are oviparous, and the eggs are adhered by means of a mucus, to the substrate. The male is responsible of oxygenate the put until the birth of the fingerlings.