Rod Buehler said:Onyx will have no black between any of the bars when they are adults, and IME the dorsal will be black. As juvies the dorsal will be orange, and there will be some orange between the middle and 3rd bar if they are still juvies. Solomon will have orange between the second and 3rd bar even as adults.
angiras said:great thread dlckwood.
I agree
Rob![]()
brahm said:Is onyx an actualy type of clownfish.. I was under the impression it's just a name given by a dealer to indentify true percs with "more black" then usally.
JHardman said:Onyx is a variant of A. percula.
The term "onyx" was coined by CQuest many years ago to identify a variant of A. percula they were breeding. At the time they claimed that they had selectively bred A. percula from the Solomon Islands to achive the complete back markings between the head and tail bars.
Since then we know that was not the turth and that this variant is naturally occuring in both fish from the Solomon Islands and from PNG.