Gold Nugget Maroon (Premnas biaculeatus)

Description:
The Gold Nugget Maroon is a designer variant of the Gold Stripe Maroon clownfish where the three bars have fully connected across the whole body resulting in a fish with brilliant milky white or gold body with a maroon facemask and maroon fins. Most will start as white colored baring but when they mature, the white turns to brilliant gold.

Behavior:
Like all clownfish, Premnas biaculeatus is a sequential hermaphrodite. The largest individual present will exert dominance and become reproductively female. The next largest fish will become reproductively male. The female will not tolerate other smaller individuals.

Compatibility:
Usually ignores reef invertebrates and corals. Clownfish sometimes adopt various corals and algae as substitutes for host anemones.

Food:
Proaquatix specimens have been weaned to take aquarium pellets and flakes. Freshly frozen invertebrates such as ocean plankton, Mysis shrimp, and brine shrimp will be readily accepted.