Ocellaris Clownfish

Amphiprion ocellaris

(22)

Suggested Tank

20+ gallons

Max Size

3.5 inches

Difficulty

Easy

Temperament

Semi-Aggressive

Description

The Ocellaris Clownfish, also known as the False Percula Clownfish or Common Clownfish, is a popular saltwater fish species especially known for its starring role in the movie "Finding Nemo". They are orange with three white bands and are known for their symbiotic relationship with sea anemones.

Reef Safe

Yes, Ocellaris Clownfish are considered reef safe and are often kept in reef aquariums.

Environment

Ocellaris Clownfish need a tank with plenty of hiding spots and an anemone or similar feature to establish as their home. They prefer a tank with stable conditions and do not tolerate rapid changes in water parameters well.

Behavior

Ocellaris Clownfish are known for their interesting behaviors, including their symbiotic relationship with sea anemones. They are also relatively peaceful, but may become territorial and aggressive if their tank is too small or overcrowded.

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Owner Reviews

Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Pellets
Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 50 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Fish eggs, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, TDO pellets

I can’t say my clowns are the nicest fish in the tank… but they have so much personality and are super fun. I’ll always have a pair of clowns in any tank I own.

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
Usarmy227

Brian

@Usarmy227

1 month ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Frozen Brine

This is the lost basic and easy fish to take are of! Not to mention there are so many variations to pick from!

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 10 Gallons
tap

Tap

@tap

1 month ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Pellets & Mysis

Simple easy and the best beginner fish you could ask for reason why these are a staple of the hobby

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 25 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Pellets & frozen foods

You can’t go wrong with a pair of clownfish! I think they’re beautiful and are the perfect starter fish. 🐠

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
Meg373

Meg

@Meg373

1 month ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: pellets & brine shrimp

They’re a pain, they love to make you think they’re sick or that something’s wrong so you feed them. The most dramatic fish I’ve ever owned. 10/10 would buy again

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 15 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Eats anything, but prefers flake food

Classic fish. I do not have an anemone, so my pair of misbar clowns are always busily swimming around together in the upper water column. They are like the goldfish of the sea; cute, dumb, and happy. Pros: active, colorful, easy to keep Cons: some can be aggressive with age Availability: can buy them anywhere

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 10 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes

Don’t leave your fingers in tank too long! 😂 Easy to care for, love watching them swimming around. I enjoy watching them and they’re always first to the dinner table..

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Misis shrimp

They are very easy only thing is if they find there spot they won’t tend to move away from it. If so get an anemone in the future.

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Moderate Visibility
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 10 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Frozen mysis, pellets

Must have for any salt water tank. If you don’t have one what are you even doing.

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 15 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Mixture of frozen food and Omega One flakes

These fish are pretty much indestructible and are always out swimming about. I love them!

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
MaxB.

Max B.

@MaxB.

5 months ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Frozen Brine and Mysis here and there, Bulk Reef Supply: Freeze dried brine & mysis shrimp, pellet diet, golden pearl Hikari: seaweed extreme small sinking pellets, carnivore sinking pellets, hikari marine pellets PE: mysis pellets 1mm TDO: tdo chromaboost (refrigerated and they love this)

They can be a bit territorial so add in the more shy fish before them, they are curious fish with a lot of personality and will watch you and come up to you to check you out through the glass. They’re also bulletproof, I had my heater break for a night and the temp dip to 68 while I was away and they’re fine, they eat almost anything and they survived flukes. Great fish to keep!

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
Nigel473

Nigel

@Nigel473

5 months ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Mysis and Pellets

Enjoyable fish to own, first saltwater tank and fish for me. Have a fun personality, have a pair of them who can be playful but also assert dominance against each other occasionally (normal behaviour). Would have them again great fish.

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 14 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Mysis
Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
Maurice

Maurice

@Maurice

5 months ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Pellets, mysis, artemia, copepods, all kinds of meaty food

Active fish with a lot of personality. If kept together they should be paired. Buying them as juveniles will get them paired.

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 18 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Mysis

Very great starter fish I personally had these for a long time and did my live start with these. Very hardy and for the most part very friendly fish

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
milld119

Dave

@milld119

5 months ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Small TDO

Do you really have a saltwater tank if you don’t have a Nemo…? This fish is always visible and very hardy (thank goodness). Mine gets along with all other tank mates. Anemone are great with clowns but seeing how most clown fish now are farm raised, they’ve never seen a nem, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t benefit from one in the tank once your tank is established enough.

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 10 Gallons
Qwarex

Qwarex

@Qwarex

6 months ago
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Mysis, pellets

Come on, you need to have at least one

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Everything.

A classic. But sometimes a bit boring

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 15 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Pellets frozen

Love my clowns

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Moderate Visibility
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Difficulty: Easy
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Frozen mysis, pellets

One of my favorites. Simple but adds a pop of color. My two are super peaceful and docile even towards me, which can be unheard of for clowns!

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 20 Gallons
Overall Rating:
Would Buy Again: 👍 Yes
What You Feed: Rods carnivore mix

Great active fish. Acts like a little puppy, he follows my finger all around the tank. Tank size: 60 breeder

Reef Safe: Yes
Visibility: Always Visible
Temperament: Peaceful
Difficulty: Easy
Min Tank Size: 15 Gallons

Price History

Average Price:
$ 66.65
Image Title Price Company Sold Date Action
Captive-Bred Mocha Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Mocha Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 20.00 Live Aquaria Apr 1, 2025 View
Captive-Bred Mocha Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Mocha Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 28.00 Live Aquaria Mar 31, 2025 View
Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 25.00 Live Aquaria Mar 27, 2025 View
Proaquatix Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
Proaquatix Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 20.00 Live Aquaria Mar 26, 2025 View
Captive-Bred Misbar Black & White Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Misbar Black & White Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 40.00 Live Aquaria Mar 26, 2025 View
Orange Ocellaris Clownfish
Orange Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 25.00 The Biota Group Mar 25, 2025 View
Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 30.00 Live Aquaria Mar 24, 2025 View
Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 24.00 Live Aquaria Mar 23, 2025 View
Tangerine Albino Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Amphiprion ocellaris
Tangerine Albino Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Amphiprion ocellaris
$ 100.00 Aqua SD Mar 22, 2025 View
Captive-Bred Mocha Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Mocha Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 35.00 Live Aquaria Mar 22, 2025 View
Ocellaris Clownfish (WILD)
Ocellaris Clownfish (WILD)
$ 40.00 Marine Collectors Mar 19, 2025 View
Proaquatix Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
Proaquatix Captive-Bred Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 20.00 Live Aquaria Mar 18, 2025 View
Captive-Bred Misbar Black & White Ocellaris Clownfish
Captive-Bred Misbar Black & White Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 40.00 Live Aquaria Mar 18, 2025 View
Ocellaris Clownfish
Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 50.00 Fragbox Corals Mar 17, 2025 View
Mocha Ocellaris Clownfish
Mocha Ocellaris Clownfish
$ 60.00 Fragbox Corals Mar 17, 2025 View
Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 28.00 World Wide Coral Mar 10, 2025 View
Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 28.00 World Wide Coral Mar 10, 2025 View
Black Ice Grade A Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - Bali Aquarich - Indonesia
Black Ice Grade A Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - Bali Aquarich - Indonesia
$ 107.00 World Wide Coral Mar 9, 2025 View
Mocha Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Mocha Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 125.00 World Wide Coral Mar 7, 2025 View
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 119.00 World Wide Coral Mar 7, 2025 View
Premium Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Premium Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 34.00 World Wide Coral Mar 6, 2025 View
Misbar Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Misbar Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 22.00 World Wide Coral Mar 2, 2025 View
Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 12.00 World Wide Coral Feb 24, 2025 View
Orange Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Orange Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 198.00 World Wide Coral Feb 7, 2025 View
Black Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Black Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 204.00 World Wide Coral Feb 7, 2025 View
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 60.00 World Wide Coral Feb 7, 2025 View
Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 14.00 World Wide Coral Feb 6, 2025 View
Black Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Black Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 220.00 World Wide Coral Feb 4, 2025 View
Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 28.00 World Wide Coral Feb 1, 2025 View
Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 28.00 World Wide Coral Jan 31, 2025 View
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 132.00 World Wide Coral Jan 31, 2025 View
Misbar Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Misbar Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 22.00 World Wide Coral Jan 29, 2025 View
Mocha Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Mocha Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 125.00 World Wide Coral Jan 21, 2025 View
Frostbite Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Frostbite Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 138.00 World Wide Coral Jan 17, 2025 View
Mocha Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Mocha Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 166.00 World Wide Coral Jan 17, 2025 View
Premium Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Premium Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 34.00 World Wide Coral Jan 14, 2025 View
Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Misbar Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 12.00 World Wide Coral Jan 14, 2025 View
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Snow Storm Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 132.00 World Wide Coral Jan 11, 2025 View
Black Ice Grade A Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - Bali Aquarich - Indonesia
Black Ice Grade A Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - Bali Aquarich - Indonesia
$ 107.00 World Wide Coral Jan 8, 2025 View
Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
Ocellaris Clownfish - Aquacultured - USA
$ 14.00 World Wide Coral Jan 5, 2025 View

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