Perhaps one of the best-known fish in the world, the Clownfish is found in various locations around the globe. The Amphiprion genus includes innumerous species that vary from fish with one to four stripes and from yellow to dark orange to red to black. There are aquiculturists in Bahia, Brazil who have been able to raise this fish in captivity.
This A. clarkii species has a rugged black body (in sick animals this becomes brown) with two or three wide vertical grooves of white. The dorsal, pelvic and anal fins are also black. The pectoral and caudal fins and the snout are orange or yellowish. Reaches up to 12 cm.

• Origin: Sumatra and East African Coasts.
  
  
• Environment: temperature between 24 and 30 ºC, density between 1020 and 1023. Rocky bottom, appropriate for maintaining giant anemones.
  
  
• Food: Alcon Gold Marin Sticks, Alcon Gold Marin Flakes and Alcon Artemia.
  
  
• Behavior: A peculiar characteristic of the clownfish is the cooperative relationship that exists between it and the anemones. The anemones offer shelter against predators and protect the clown's eggs while the clown cleans the anemones, removing possible parasites, dirt and dead skin. Each species of clown fish has a specific species of anemones. Therefore, before buying the anemone and clown fish, check that they are compatible. If not the fish will not stay among the tentacles of the anemone.