My 4 month old Black Ice Snowflake Clownfish pair

Meet Kahl Drogo and Daenerys.

In QT? Good boy.

aweeeee I want snowflakes - perhaps when I setup my frag tank I can get some

Here is their Dad.

Don't you think you should broaden the gene pool? Going to make a bunch of weak fish if you breed siblings over and over.

I've no immediate plans to breed. That wasn't my reason for getting these guys. That being said, Clownfish often have incestrial relationships in nature. Especially in large anemones where families of clowns all live in the same nem. I don't know that this makes them weak. But I'm not an expert, so what do I know.

Hey anemone - there is no concern of inbreeding - this pair are the first off spring (F1) - Most breeders will tell you that you can breed down to F9 without issue. Fact is that most wont go past F5 or 6 but there is really no need to. I have yet to see any reason to anyhow.

Also if you do a little research you'll find that most clowns caught in the wild off of the same reef are inbred. So the pair he has with known parents from different pairs already have less inbreeding then the typical pair aquired through more conventional means.

To both, good to know and I'm glad to hear there won't be any issues. There are animals that through chronic inbreeding (always have had a small population and therefore are always slightly inbreeding) are more resistant to genetic diseases, but I still caution against breeding too far down a line. Bringing in fresh wild animals every few generations will go further in strengthening your line as well as giving you more of a chance of getting some strange novel strain.