just a question about clown fish ?

Have you kept a saltwater tank before? Keeping a salty tank is not as easy, or cheap, as a freshwater set up and will be quite a brain-bending thing if you're just starting out.

FYI Nemo was an Ocellaris Clownfish, the most common of the Clowns available, and also available captive bred.

If you're thinking of clowns, forget the fish for now, and concentrate on the maintenance of a saltwater tank. It's the water that keeps the fish healthy anyway. Make sure you get a tank over 30-40 us gallons, and then research on how to cycle it, then how to maintain it. It will take over a month for the tank to be ready, once set up, for fish anyway. Plenty of time to get background reading in!

There are hundreds of reefkeeping and marinekeeping forums out there to help you too.

The easiest to breed, without doubt, is the ocellaris clownfish, Amphiprion ocellaris, the clownfish that starred in "Finding Nemo." The ocellaris is sometimes called the "False Percula," because it resembles the "true" percula clownfish, Amphiprion percula, but you should not infer from the term "false" that the ocellaris is in any way inferior to the percula, because it is not.

Amphiprion ocellaris is the single most widely-bred marine fish in captivity. That means that captive-bred specimens are generally available, and these are vastly preferable to wild-caught individuals. The captive-bred clownfish will be much hardier, healthier, and easier to breed than any wild-caught marine fish.

Clownfishes are harder to keep than many freshwater fishes, but one of the easier marine fishes to keep.

They can live for a number of years-- at least five years for the ocellaris clownfish.

Clownfishes are protandrous hermaphrodites. That means that all of them start out life as males, and some of them eventually change into females. In any colony of clownfishes, the largest fish will be the breeding female, and the second-largest will be the breeding male. All the smaller individuals are non-breeding males. If the female dies or otherwise disappears, the largest male will become the breeding female, and the next-biggest male will become the breeding male.

This means that in an aquarium, if you get two small (immature) clownfish of the same species, you will eventually end up with a pair.

In nature, clownfishes always live in sea anemones, but in an aquarium they can live very well without an anemone (at least, Amphiprion ocellaris can), and anemones are very hard to keep alive in an aquarium, so I recommend that you keep yours without an anemone, at least to begin with.

Do a web search for "Amphiprion ocellaris" for more information on how to keep and breed this species.

i do not know much about clown fish.... but i am from australia and do a fair bit of diving. I rarely see any Clown fish, but when i do they are NOT the "Nemo" type lol. From this i am lead to believe that the nemo species are rarer.

if you are wanting them to live you are going to need the correct water type and a Sea Anemon!

i hope i helped a little :S

the best thing you can do is go to the shop where you are thinking of buying the clown fish.and ask them everything as they keep them they will know.

goodluck

convicts are freshwater in basic terms, you may upload some aquarium salt, and clowns are strictly salt water, and your convicts might F*** the S*** out of the clown, they are like the mexicans of the freshwater international.