Darkening of clownfish?

paulyd1978

Member
I bought these two ocellarus clowns over a year ago, and they seem to just keep getting darker. I have two tomato clowns in my other tank that keep getting darker too. I feed the ocellarus flake, but the tomato clowns get a variety (brine, mysis, finely chopped squid, mussels, shrimp, garlic, and scallops, cyclop-eez, zoo-plan). Don't see why this is occurring, when I bought them they were bright orange. The flake that I feed them is Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef, "Flake Food for Flavor and Coloration." Has anyone experienced and remedied this before?
As you can see in my avatar, they were much brighter a year ago.
 

coral hind

New Member
It is a natural process of maturing. Many perculas and ocellaris will do that, ecspecially the ones from the PNG area.
 
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