"William Marsh" wrote on Mon, 27 Mar 2006:
My question is why would a person want a clown that was not tank raised. Do
they act differently

Possibly wild ones host in anemones more reliably, but that's hard to tell.

My LSF guy says the color is better

Agreed. Like any other domesticated pet, you can do artificial selection
on breeding pairs with a captive-bred species.

and they don't cost more or not much.

This part seems to be the difference. Around here, a wild clownfish costs
$10-$12 or so. Captive-bred orange ocellaris is about $25/fish. The black
captive-bred ocellaris clown that I got last week from my LFS was $45 for a
single fish. (I'm not aware of any wild-caught black ocellaris clowns.)

-- Don
__________________________________________________ _____________________________
Don Geddis http://reef.geddis.org/
I gotta have more cowbell! -- "Bruce Dickinson" (Christopher Walken), SNL