Are these Onyx Clowns?

[HKSTurbo28]

 

[xinumaster]

pictures are too small to tell, but I thick those are TP.

 

[HKSTurbo28]

i'm not very technical with my digital camera, sorry for the blurry pics but here's a closer pic:

 

[JeffReef]

The marking looks different from the Onyx. If I had to guess, I'd say it's a True Perc. Send me a larger pic and I might be able to tell if it's from SI or PNG.

Where did you get these?

Jeff

 

[fingerwrinkles]

Yes, those are onyx, very nice looking ones as well. Onyx are merely a color variant of true perculas, which have a wide range of color intensity and patterning. It is not uncommon to see a lot of natural pattern variants coming out of the Solomon Islands, and natural color variants (especially heavy black overtones) in fish from Papua New Guinea.

 

[klam114]

looks like it to me. but compare it to rod and see. sorry not an expert.

 

[JeffReef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9366859#post9366859 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fingerwrinkles
Yes, those are onyx, very nice looking ones as well. Onyx are merely a color variant of true perculas, which have a wide range of color intensity and patterning. It is not uncommon to see a lot of natural pattern variants coming out of the Solomon Islands, and natural color variants (especially heavy black overtones) in fish from Papua New Guinea.

I've guessed it not to be an Onyx at first because of the dorsal- per Rod's description. I'm not a percula expert and I've never seen an Onyx in person. But this is how Rod explained it to me by email from a couple months ago.

Looking through some posted Rod's Onyx perc pics, your clown appears to be an Onyx.

From: "Rod Buehler Rods-Reef" <rbuehler@rods-reef.com> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: "JEFF ROQUE" <jeffroque@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: perculas
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:06:00 -0600

Hi Jeff.

They are a captive bred onyx perc. Bill Addison, A geneticist that ran a hatchery in Puerto Rico work with some very dark percs to get the gene to reproduce, and when he did he called them onyx. In My opinion, for a clown to deserve the onyx name they should carry the same blood lines as the pair that he was working with. My Pair does breed true, and 98 % end up with that deep black coloration, and the black dorsal.

Rod

 

[HKSTurbo28]

Thanks for the compliments and for letting me know that most agree these are Onyx clowns. Doesn't really make a difference to me really, just wanted to understand what is considered an Onyx Clown.

 

[xinumaster]

I can see it now from the zoom picture that those are OC.

 

[cbr600rri]

IMO, they would be Oynx clown if the dorsal fin is all black. Although, there's plenty of black everywhere else, to be considered Oynx. So I dunno anymore

btw HKSTurbo28, where did you get these, here in the Bay Area or online? and how much?

 

[Solitaryensis]

Alvin,
I have pair i got here in the bay that look exactly like yours. I paid 19.99, as i think the employee didnt know what he was doing Although im pretty sure mines are a pair, one resides in a frogspawn and the other in a rose. Very rarely do they "pair" up. Are yours showing this behavior?

 

[HKSTurbo28]

Solitaryensis: My pair swims together and resides in a Green Bubble Coral together. You definitely got a good deal!