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.
In-store purchase only. Live fish, coral, and invertebrates are sold at our Erie store only. They cannot be bought online, and we do not ship live animals under any circumstances.
Live fish are priced per supplier batch — prices may vary. Call to confirm current pricing.
- Condition
- new
- Fulfillment
- Local pickup — Erie, PA
Live animals are sold in store only — we do not ship fish, coral, or invertebrates. Every animal is acclimated and health-checked in-house before it reaches the sales floor. This is a species we carry — it's most likely in the tanks around delivery days, but live stock changes daily. Please call (814) 456-9445 to confirm availability before you drive in.
Care at a glance
What to know before you take one home.
- Care level
- Beginner
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Adult size
- 3.5"
- Min tank size
- 20 gallons
- Diet
- Omnivore
- 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.
Stock and individual temperament vary — call (814) 456-9445 for pairing advice before you buy.
Good tankmates
Plays well with.
Species we’d keep in the same tank, with why each pairing works. Stock and individual temperament vary — call (814) 456-9445 to confirm before you buy.
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. Multiple sources confirm compatibility with ocellaris. Territory-defensive behavior (mouth-gaping) is directed at intruders into its own cave; it does not seek out clownfish. Forum reports of aggression are 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 well-documented and consistently positive across forum surveys and care guides. The notorious 'school attrition' problem (intra-group hierarchy aggression) is an internal schooling dynamic, not a clownfish issue. One isolated report of an 8-year-old chromis nipping an ocellaris exists but is considered anomalous. No predation risk, no territory overlap. Keep — with the caveat that school-size attrition is a separate husbandry concern.
Banggai Cardinalfish
Research confirms Banggai are too gentle and slow-moving to bother clownfish. The documented 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 universally listed as 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
Verified compatible with clownfish across multiple care guides. Rare reports of the blenny briefly pecking at a clownfish's dorsal fin exist, but documented cases show the clownfish were unbothered and the behavior was exploratory rather than aggressive — no injury, no stress response. Ecsenius stigmatura is consistently categorized as 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.