Black storm wife for my widower

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Unfortunately, I lost what I believe to be the female in my juvi plain occellaris pair. Left the lid slightly ajar overnight and found her on the floor in the morning RIP Congress :(. Fast forward a couple weeks was at my lfs and they had a medium sized black storm clownfish, I thought the fish was stunning and thought he/she may be a good partner for my widowed Little Man . I have two questions
1. Are the black storm variants more aggressive than the regular orange Occellaris ?
2. I know they say to introduce a smaller clown but my remaining clown is quite small himself and has shown zero aggression where Congress would always be telling him what to do. So I figure this beefier black storm would just reassume the dominant/female position. I figured this would be a safe assumption since it’s only been a couple weeks since we lost Congress?
Thank you

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They are the 'same' fish, just inbred to produce the different colors and patterns.
 
They are the 'same' fish, just inbred to produce the different colors and patterns.
I feel like I’ve read in other comment threads that the black variants were more aggressive. I guess I kind of assumed they were crossed with a black percula way back when to start these black variant chains thus leading to more aggressiveness ? Guess I’m looking for people that have kept these black storms and they were chill.
 
I have kept alot of black storms, some are jerks, some are peaceful. Black ocellaris are a naturally occuring morph and some would argue they are different species than regular ocellars but for know they are classified as the same species. Alot of the black ocellaris carie ts have been mixed with orange ocellaris to get the patterns we see today
 

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