My Two Black Clowns

[FlyPenFly]

They're chilling right now in my 8 gallon while I wait for my 34g to cycle. I got a great deal on the larger one with the more orange face for $25 at Petco on sale. The smaller more black one was $60 at my awesome LFS.

I am extremely wary of buying fish at Petco but I observed him for a long time and he seemed healthy. There's always at least 1 dead fish or highly stressed fish at my local Petco

They both swim around for about 5 minutes every 45 minutes but really each kind of hangs out hovering over 1 spot in the small tank. I hope when I move them over, they'll be a bit more active.

Right now, their names are Barry and Michelle.

Anyways, how do you tell if one is male or female other than size?

I think they're both black ocellaris, correct?

 

[fishman1069]

Nice clowns! I alwaus liked the black clowns. I wanna get a pair when i set up my 125. Good luck with them

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

They are too small to have gender determined. When they started to change, you will the one going female grow bigger in much much faster pace, then that is the female.

 

[ClownAquatics]

You will also notice one of the fish start to pick on the other one. That fish is showing dominance and most likely will turn female. You may even notice the one getting picked on even appear to have what looks like a seizure and swim vertically and start to shake.

It is a good thing when you see that.