Tomato with an extra stripe

[dchemist]

Here's my new Tomato clown- picked him up at the LFS. I liked him because of his extra stripe. Is that unusual?

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a173/dchemist/tomatoclowniii.jpg

Darren

[MarinaP]

Juvenile color pattern, middle stripe will go away as the clown matures.

[traveller7]

Yep :)

[SW Fan]

Very nice pic

[dchemist]

I had no idea its was a juvenile color pattern- I thought I was getting something different. Thanks for the info. Do they always grow out of it?

SW Fan- Thanks, it was tough to get him to turn sideways to capture the little stripe. He seems to always face me when I'm watching him.

[SW Fan]

Mine does that to. The only time mine turns sideways is behind the rocks and it is only for a second

[Gary Majchrzak]

Originally posted by dchemist
Do they always grow out of it?

IME yes. Some baby tomato clowns have 3 stripes.

[dchemist]

Originally posted by Gary Majchrzak
IME yes. Some baby tomato clowns have 3 stripes.

Thanks Gary- that's what I thought since in all my (limited) searching on-line I failed to find a single tomato clown image/photo with a second (or third) stripe.

Fishbase.org said, "A second black-edged white bar may be at mid-body." So I thought it was a possibility.

Darren

[Gary Majchrzak]

If only I had a digital camera back when I was raising clowns!
BTW- great pic, dchemist.