A. ocellaris and A. percula are pretty easily bred in captivity so there should be a reasonable supply of captive bred for these guys (apparently very hard to tell the difference between the two when they're captive bred, or something like that, but that's another issue). Anyways so, this is what I think: If you see a tank of like 30-40 (or more) small A. ocellaris, it's a reasonable assumption that they're tank bred. If you see a "mated pair" i.e., one obvious female, one obvious male (females are larger than males), well ... it takes time for them to pair up... so .. unless they were traded in or something, it seems odd that something like that would come from a breeder. But that's just my $0.02, not a guaranteed method by any stretch of course ...
Of course, you could always ask. Usually LFS's are going to be pretty up front about stuff like that..
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