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Originally Posted by TriggersAmuck
Awesome thread! Fast question, but I see on LiveAquaria that they list the care level for the Amphiprion bicinctus as difficult. Any thoughts on why this is the case, for those of you fortunate enough to keep/have kept them?
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Wild caught clownfish are generally trickier in the first few months because of all the diseases and parasites they may harbor. Once you have them over that hump they are generally very hardy.
Some species are more challenging than others, not necessarily because they are more difficult but because they spent a lot more time in shipping bags. Percula is particularly notorious for coming down with infections right after shipping.
The thing with LiveAquaria is that they almost exclusively sell only ORA tank bred anemonefish. Unfortunately those are in almost all cases extremely disfigured. I don't know what ORA is doing to their anemonefish, but in my experience, you must actually be proactive in your neglect to create such refuse with such consistency.
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