Designer tomatoes

[joseph.timbs]

A few years ago when I got back into the hobby I was going to get tomato clowns. They are my favorite clownfish honestly but it was at the time designer ocellaris were coming out so I spent some money and got a zombie male, larger longfin fancy female. Loved them, had a tank crash and sadly lost both. After a while I started to put time and effort in and I saw a “hockey stick” tomato clown, thought that finally someone has started a designer tomato like it’s done for ocellaris/maroon. Well I was wrong, it was a one off, wild caught mutation. Eventually a couple years ago in Petco my dad convinced me to get some snowflakes, that I have now. I still wonder tho, why hasn’t there been designer fat body clowns (as I call them) tomato, fire, cinnamon?

I like to be a little bit different, don’t care about having a “Nemo”, I don’t care for designer maroons I think the normal maroons are better looking tbh but they are aggressive and not great for my 40 breeder. I know tomato’s are more aggressive than ocellaris but not as aggressive as maroons. If anyone does know of any “designer” tomato clowns I would be interested.

 

[Ocellaris123]

I like tomatos as well and wouldnt mind setting up a species tank for a pair. They had some juvenile tomatoes with a unique middle stripe pattern, but that probably vanished with age. There was also a “ blue” tomato clownfish that was wild caught but that was ages ago, not sure what happened to it

 

[KrisReef]

It’s an interesting question as to why Tomatoes don’t seem to have a lot of viable mutations that can be exploited otherwise I have also wondered why there are no designer options?

I suspect that the parents eat all of the diversity that manifests itself, but I don’t really know?

 

[Ocellaris123]

Here is a pic from bali aquaculture

 

[joseph.timbs]

Here is a pic from bali aquaculture

I remember these, so cool.