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ocean animals in your livingroom! It's as easy keeping a ocean animals as fresh water fish, this guide shows you how! The clown fish is one of the most known salt water fishes. A clown fish can be hard to keep by themselves in a salt water fish tank , ofcourse. If possible the clown fish should be keept in a pair. Clown fishes have a fantastic relation to the anemon where the clown hide, lovely ocean animals.

Choosing fish

Boxfish(Lat. Ostriaccidae)

Basicly are their three thing to keep in mind when choosing fish :

• Temperature of the water?
• How will the fish interact with my invertabrutes(corals)?
• How will it interact with other fishes, other species as well as it's own?

One thing that's easy to overlook when setting up a new aquarium is the maturation period it needs, give it some time to adopt the right levels before introducing the fishes.

Popular species:

Cardinal

One of those, a cardinal, woulden't be to bad to start out with would it?
The cardinal-family along with damsels and the clown fish (es)from the "pomacentridae-family" got the be the most common and the two best familys of marines for the beginner to start out with. Their easily feed and they accepts anything from flakes to live bate and even alges.

Accept from the clown fish they interact very well with each other and many other species smoothly. The clown could have a bit of trouble with it's own and is easiest keept by themselves or in pair. All of them could be keept with invertabrutes, in fact, the clown fish loves them and has developed a remarkable connection to the anemon(as in the picture below)

A clown fish

Good luck!