Difference between True Percula and Ocellaris

[clink51]

other then the color, banding and fin differences, what are the difference in maintaining them? Given that they are both tank raised, does Diet, Temperature, Water chem differences occur?

 

[mr llimpid]

Nothing a clown is a clown, from a tomato to a skunk. Some do prefer certain type of anemones then other specie.

 

[bang guy]

Agreed, nothing major. Although I disagree with "a clown is a clown".

The only things I can think of are that in my experience A. percula seem to protect a much smaller area, about one square foot vs two or three square feet for A. ocellaris. In my mind, it would seem that A. percula don't need as large a tank as A. ocellaris.

 

[mr llimpid]

Good point Bang, at my age you forget somthings. I wounder why that is, that the percula can live in a smaller tank, to the average Joe, the percula and the ocellaris are both Nemo's.

 

[2quills]

Bang, would that observation be based on wild or tank raised specimines? I'd really like to try either a pair of Picasso's (percs) or Snow Flakes (ocellaris). I've always been a bit more partial to the color pattern of percs, myself.

 

[bang guy]

Equally to both wild and aquaculture