Saltwater Fish
Black Ice.
A designer ocellaris clownfish blending black and orange with bold icy-white bands. Hardy, personable, and beginner-friendly — reef-safe and quick to claim an anemone or a patch of coral as home.
Prices change with size and with each shipment. Call to check today's price.
Call (814) 456-9445We keep this species. What's in our tanks changes with every delivery, so call (814) 456-9445 before you drive in. We never ship live animals.
- Condition
- new
- Fulfillment
- Local pickup — Erie, PA
We never ship fish, coral, or invertebrates — every animal here is one you meet in person. Each one is acclimated and health-checked in-house before it goes out into the display tanks. This is a species we keep, and what is swimming on any given day changes with the deliveries, so please call (814) 456-9445 before you drive in.
Care at a glance
What to know before you take one home.
- Care level
- Hardy, and forgiving of the swings a new tank throws at it.
- Temperament
- Leaves tankmates alone.
- Adult size
- 3.5"
- Min tank size
- 20 gallons
- Diet
- Eats meat and greens both.
- Scientific name
- Amphiprion ocellaris
Good tank mates
Black Ice clownfish are a designer ocellaris variant with the same easygoing temperament, fitting peaceful reef communities alongside gobies, firefish, dwarf angels, cardinalfish, and other calm marine fish. Keep a single fish or one bonded pair, because mixing unbonded clowns usually leads to fighting, and avoid predatory fish or eels large enough to eat them. They are reef-safe with corals and most invertebrates.
Good to know
Black Ice is a captive-bred designer strain of ocellaris clownfish bred for heavy black coloration with white snowflake-style patches, an intermediate look between the orange Snowflake and the all-black Darwin clowns.
What is in the tanks and each animal’s temperament vary — call (814) 456-9445 for pairing advice.
Good tankmates
Plays well with.
Species we’d keep in the same tank, with why each pairing works. What is in the tanks and each animal’s temperament vary — call (814) 456-9445 for advice on pairing.
New to stocking a tank? Read our guide on which fish live together.
Royal Gramma
Cave-dwelling basslet that occupies rockwork crevices — a completely different vertical zone from the clownfish's open-water/host territory. Compatible with ocellaris. Territory-defensive behavior (mouth-gaping) is directed at intruders into its own cave; it does not seek out clownfish. Any aggression is situational (crowded tanks, insufficient rock structure) and resolve once hierarchy is set. Solid keep in a properly scaped reef.
Firefish Goby
Peaceful substrate-hoverer with no territorial overlap with clownfish. No fin-nipping or predation risk in either direction — both are too small to threaten each other and occupy entirely different niches. The known husbandry concern (jumping) is a lid issue, not a compatibility issue. Widely confirmed as one of the safest ocellaris companions.
Green Chromis
Cross-species compatibility with ocellaris is consistently positive. The notorious 'school attrition' problem (intra-group hierarchy aggression) is an internal schooling dynamic, not a clownfish issue. A chromis nipping an ocellaris is rare and anomalous. No predation risk, no territory overlap. Keep — with the caveat that school-size attrition is a separate husbandry concern.
Banggai Cardinalfish
Banggai are too gentle and slow-moving to bother clownfish. The aggression risk runs the other direction — a dominant breeding-pair clownfish can occasionally harass a Banggai, not vice versa. That risk is manageable with adequate tank space and is not inherent to the species pairing. Banggai themselves are peaceful toward clownfish.
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Neon Goby
Tiny cleaner fish with zero territorial ambition and a functional cleaning-station role that clownfish actively benefit from. No size threat, no fin-nipping history, no resource competition. One of the most unambiguously safe additions to any ocellaris community tank.
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Tailspot Blenny
Compatible with clownfish. The blenny may briefly peck at a clownfish's dorsal fin, but the clownfish stay unbothered and the behavior is exploratory rather than aggressive — no injury, no stress response. Ecsenius stigmatura is one of the most community-safe blennies available. Keep; monitor early introductions.
Visit the store
660 East 14th Street,
Erie, PA.
Mon–Fri 12–6 · Sat 11–4 · Sun closed. Call ahead on livestock — what's on the floor rotates.