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With their eye-catching colors and fascinating behaviors, as well as their
general hardiness and relatively small sizes, clownfishes and other damsels are
understandably among the most popular of the marine aquarium fishes. Beloved
by beginners and experts alike, these attractive and outgoing members of the family
Pomacentridae—such as the ever-popular Amphiprion ocellaris on this month’s
cover—make excellent aquarium specimens if purchased in healthy condition
and provided appropriate accommodations, as explained in this month’s selected
excerpt on choosing and housing pomacentrids from the new T.F.H. Publications
book Clownfishes and Other Damselfishes (p. 90).
Photograph by Olga Khoroshunova/Shutterstock
Our cover photo, free of any text or graphics and suitable for framing, is reproduced in full size on p. 51
departments
4 From the Editor
6 Contributors
8 Freshwater Q&A
16 Saltwater Q&A
33 Aquatic Plant of the Month
48 Marine Invert of the Month
50 Fish of the Month
51 On the Cover
106 Product Spotlight
107 Meeting Place
110 Classified Ads
112 Index to Advertisers
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