How to id a true percula

[teenfish]

What is the best ways to tell the diffreence between a true percula compared to an Ocellaris?

 

[bwest]

http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/clownfishcare/l/blpercula.htm

 

[teenfish]

Thanks for the link. What about the color of their eyes, I have read that a true perculas eyes are brighter orange than an ocellaris. Is this also another way to tell the difference between the two?

 

[bwest]

Typically percula clowns will have a clean orange around the eyes, where ocellaris it appears a little 'muddy' orange. If that makes sense.

 

[reef321]

i have one fish that at the lfs was labeled as ocellaris and looks like my other ocellaris's, but he has clearer orange eye's than the other ones.

 

[bwest]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14286275#post14286275 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bwest
Typically percula clowns will have a clean orange around the eyes, where ocellaris it appears a little 'muddy' orange. If that makes sense.

Yeah I assume there can be some exceptions, that's why I said 'typically'

 

[noboddi]

That's the problem with ID'ing them. Whether you are counting spines or rays or eye color, there is variation in some individuals. Percs tend to cost more