AMPHIPRION FRENATUS
Scientific name: Amphiprion Frenatus.
Common name: Tomato Clown Fish.
Order: Perciformes.
Family: Pomacentridae.
Genre: Amphiprion.
Origin: Western Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Habitat: Reef.
Morphology: Body oval, with large rounded fins, orange color, more or less dark, with a white band with black edges behind the eye. His body can become black, especially in older. Captive reaches up to 14 cm. The female is usually larger than the male. The clown fish are born as male, as they grow some of them become females.
Longevity: Up to 10 years.
Maintenance: Easy. It's a fish advisable for to start the world of marine aquarium fish. It is fully compatible with the reef aquarium and no special lighting requirements or water movement.
PH: 8.1-8.3 Temperature: 24-26º Salinity: 1022-1026
Behavior: Pacific. Little aggressive with its fish species can be kept in pairs or in groups whenever we have enough space.
He lives in symbiosis with the anemone Entacmea quadricolor, but also suits aquàriums other anemones.
Feeding: Varied, you accept all kinds of live food frozen (Mysis or Artemia) or flakes. Also accept meat fish, squid, mussels, etc.
Reproduction: Oviparous. The breeding of clowns is a very interesting experience and is not as difficult as you think.
The first thing you need in a mate. If we have a group of clowns, the greater the female and the next largest is the male. The rest will be sexless youth. If for example the female disappears, the male it will become in female and the largest of the youth will become male. Once they are adopting the gender female can not be changed again.
To help the strawberry is very important good nutrition preferably with live or frozen food. The couple should feel safe, without any threat. The breeding tank should be approx. 100 liters, and we must be careful that the filtration system and movement is not dangerous for the larvae.
Egg laying starts a ritual cleaning of the area where they will lay eggs. After the female is doing passes and putting rows of eggs which then the male fertilizes. Each egg laying typically have between 200 - 500 egg.
The eggs are bright orange. After a couple of days they lose color and appear eyes. Depending on the temperature, around of the day 8 the eyes turn silver, this indicates that they will hatch.
List of clownfish and anemones favorite:
Amphiprion ocellaris - clown common - Heteractis and Stichodactyla sp.
Amphiprion percula - percula clown - Heteractis and Stichodactyla sp.
Amphiprion clarkii -Heteractis and Stichodactyla sp.
Amphiprion ephippium - tomato clown - Entacmea and Stichodactyla sp.
Amphiprion frenatus - tomato clown - Entacmea quadricolor
Amphiprion sebae - sebae clown - Stichodactyla haddoni
Amphiprion akallopisos - orange clown - Heteractis and Stichodactyla sp.
Amphiprion nigripes - black clown standing - magnificent Heteractis
Amphiprion perideraion - pink clown - Heteractis and Stichodactyla sp.
Premnas biaculeatus - maroon clown - Entacmea quadricolor
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