With their eye-catching colors and fascinating behaviors, as well as their general hardiness and relatively small sizes, clownfishes and other damsels are understandably among the most popular of the marine aquarium fishes. Beloved by beginners and experts alike, these attractive and outgoing members of the family Pomecentridae—such as the ever-popular Amphiprion ocellaris on this month’s cover—make excellent aquarium specimens if purchased in healthy condition and provided appropriate accommodations, as explained in this month’s selected excerpt on choosing and housing pomacentrids from the new T.F.H. Publications book Clownfishes and Other Damselfishes (p. 90). Photograph... Read more»
