Amphiprion sebae (Black)

Amphiprion sebae, commonly known as the Sebae clownfish, is a medium-sized anemonefish from the saddleback complex, which look a bit like a clarkii x polymnus hybrid. These fish have a mostly black body although some individuals have a yellow belly. The best way to tell them apart from polymnus is the fact that sebae have a yellow caudal fin, and the best way to tell them apart from clarkii is that sebae have the white (saddle)band running all the way into the second dorsal fin.

These anemonefish can best be kept as a pair. When buying a pair you don't need to worry about male or female because these fish are hermaphroditic. This means the most dominant fish will automatically turn into the female when there is no other female around. Food wise, these fish are easy to feed. They're omnivores and will eat almost anything you offer. Just make sure they receive a balanced diet of live/frozen food and be sure to include some good quality pellets or flakes. These fish may have a hard time settling in an aquarium with aggressive fish, so it's best to introduce these fish before other more aggressive fish are introduced.

As long as no predators are around (which usually isn't the case in our aquaria), there is no need to add an anemone. They might find shelter in another large polyp coral or just hang around a certain rock. If you want to see the symbiotic relationship they've with their host in nature you need to buy a Stichodactyla haddoni, because this is the only anemone it's associated with in the wild.

This fish is black variant, which as the name suggests, has much more black compared to the regular A. sebae!  Juveniles may not be very black as this trait make take time to develop!