When I entered the hobby 2 and half years ago... like most people... my first fish were a pair of clowns.
Got them from an LFS. They were from two different tanks... one was sold as a picasso clown and the other was called an extreme picasso clown.
both fish were mostly orange/white with a little bit of black around the edges.
Here are a couple pics after I first got them. Brand new tank... my marco rocks were still white and brand spanking new.
2 and a half years later, the only thing orange on them is now their faces. All other orange areas have turned black.
Is this normal? Do all percula type clownfish eventually darken, lose their orange and become black like this?
They still have a little bit of orange on the under side of their pectoral fins, but other than that... they are turning blacker and blacker as time goes on.
Got them from an LFS. They were from two different tanks... one was sold as a picasso clown and the other was called an extreme picasso clown.
both fish were mostly orange/white with a little bit of black around the edges.
Here are a couple pics after I first got them. Brand new tank... my marco rocks were still white and brand spanking new.
2 and a half years later, the only thing orange on them is now their faces. All other orange areas have turned black.
Is this normal? Do all percula type clownfish eventually darken, lose their orange and become black like this?
They still have a little bit of orange on the under side of their pectoral fins, but other than that... they are turning blacker and blacker as time goes on.