Clown mix breeding

A friend told me he read on a website that clowns are so close genetically like dogs that almost any 2 types can mix breed..amyone have amy experience or thoughts on this ...i am not thinking about trying just bored at work and curious if anyone had



Tom

 

That's how they get a lot of the designer clowns. Like you said, just like dogs lol.

 

It kind of goes against what most say

You shouldnt have 2 different clowns in the same tank kinda like a pitbull and a poodle lol

 

You can have two different kinds to some degree. You would want to try and mix a big female maroon with a baby ocellaris, but for the most part, if they look similar, you can make a pair out of two.

 

So a tomato might breed with a maroon or a nemo might breed with clarki or black and white

 

You wouldn't want a maroon with an OC. You could have a pair of maroons and a pair of OCs in different tanks, with shared water between them and get cross fertilization. The likelihood though depends on genetic similarity. I believe OCs and percs is still much more likely than OCs and Maroons for example.


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Interesting maybe you would get a clarkmato kinda like a labradoodle

 

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No... they re not in the same genus (maroon = Premnas biaculeatus and clarkii / B&W are both Amphiprion sp. ) species in the same genus will sometimes interbreed.

 

I've seen percoon clowns, a mix of percs and GSMs apparently...
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So I guess yes, it is possible.