The black salt water clown fish is also known as the yellow tail salt water clown fish, and can be obtained in several color variations. The most common form of black clown fish is indeed black and yellow, bearing white vertical stripes. Just like the other clown fishes, Black clown fishes form a symbiotic relationship with anemones and are thus also known as Black anemone fishes. The black salt water clown fish is one of the most frequently kept clown fish species and you can find these fishes in numerous saltwater aquariums all over the world.
Populations of Black clown fish can be found from the Persian Gulf to the Western coast of Australia. They inhabit the Australian archipelago, the many reefs of Melanesia and Micronesia, but you can also find Black Clown fish up to north Taiwan and south Japan. The vibrant coloration of the black salt water clown fish makes it very easy to spot for predators, and it would not survive long in the wild if it was not protected by the tentacles of the stinging anemone. In return, the black clown fish will keep the anemone clean by eating left over food. When a black salt water clown fish is kept in a salt water aquarium without any natural enemies and is provided with food by its keeper, it will not need an anemone to survive. You should however make sure that the aquarium set up provides the black clown fish with suitable hiding spots, since it can be very stressed in a barren aquarium, especially when no anemones can be found. If you keep your black salt water clown fish with an anemone species that it has not encountered yet, the fish must gradually acclimatize itself to the anemone to avoid begin injured.
