Mirror Pond
Premium Member
What does everyone think? Pink skunk with dots instead of bars, or regular skunk with dots? There are identical white dots on each side of its' head where the side bars would be on a pink skunk.
A. akallopisos or A. perideraion? Pics
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phender
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I would be easier if the pics weren't so overexposed and blurry.
A "head on" shot would help too.
From the second pic, it looks like it's dorsal stripe goes all the way onto it's upper lip. If so, that would make it a sandaracinos w/ spots. (which is not unusual for that species)
A "head on" shot would help too.
From the second pic, it looks like it's dorsal stripe goes all the way onto it's upper lip. If so, that would make it a sandaracinos w/ spots. (which is not unusual for that species)
Mirror Pond
Premium Member
Let's try this again although I don't know much about photography. The reason I didn't think it was sandaracinos is that it has a white tail, not orange and the dorsal stripe comes to a point just at the top of the upper lip.
phender
Active member
Thanks for the new pics
I am leaning towards A. akallopisos, but it is still a tough call.
FWIW: A. akallopisos normally has 9 hard dorsal fin rays while A. perideraion normally has 10. If you can get a good picture, you can count them yourself.
If you want to count the soft dorsal rays, perideraion has 16-17 while akallopisos has 18-20 but usually 19.
I am leaning towards A. akallopisos, but it is still a tough call.
FWIW: A. akallopisos normally has 9 hard dorsal fin rays while A. perideraion normally has 10. If you can get a good picture, you can count them yourself.
If you want to count the soft dorsal rays, perideraion has 16-17 while akallopisos has 18-20 but usually 19.
I will lean the other way, not enough yellow tinge on the fins or underbelly for A. akallopisos.
Plus it makes more sense as A. akallopisos does not heve a bar and I have mever seen one with a bar (I live in thailand and dive the andaman sea several times a year so have seen many), However I have seen a few A. perideraion with bar abnormailities.
Thats my take
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Plus it makes more sense as A. akallopisos does not heve a bar and I have mever seen one with a bar (I live in thailand and dive the andaman sea several times a year so have seen many), However I have seen a few A. perideraion with bar abnormailities.
Thats my take
:smokin:
Rare Angels
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Could a be a leucokranos that leans alot towards the Sandaracinos side of the hybrid?
With the wide dorsal stripe going almost all the way to nose, dot for sideburn, and a white tail I really think it s a leucokranos with a high percentage of Sandaracino.
JMO.
Dave
With the wide dorsal stripe going almost all the way to nose, dot for sideburn, and a white tail I really think it s a leucokranos with a high percentage of Sandaracino.
JMO.
Dave
MarinaP
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http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=394140
Scroll down, you will see a pic of the clown similar to one in question.
Scroll down, you will see a pic of the clown similar to one in question.
Mirror Pond
Premium Member
That looks to be very similar. Thanks.
phender
Active member
Marina,
Ecotropic got off this list a couple months before I got on. (Searching for him was actually how I found this forum)
Was that a fish he bred or was it a WC fish that he assumed was a hybrid? I know he bred a lot of high end difficult fish.
To me it looks like akallapisos with a little extra marking. I have seen the extra dots before in WC sandaracino and akallapisos that I just assumed were just unusual mismarks rather than hybrids.
phender
Active member
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11281598#post11281598 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MarinaP
I know how you found us, Phil
I do not know the history of the fish in the photo, but I would assume Jeff knew what he was talking about.
I just didn't know if maybe that was a fish that had been discussed in a prior unrelated thread, or if maybe it was a breeding success he had shared with the forum before I came aboard.
