OK im getting P.O.'d now, do true black perculas even exist?!?

[Anemone]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7476517#post7476517 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JHardman
What you are after is the black variant of A. ocellaris, which are bred in the US by ORA and can be ordered by any LFS. They are not rare nor are they hard to obtain if you just ask your LFS to order them.

Absolutely! Any store that deals with ORA shouldn't have any trouble ordering them.

I bought mine about a year and a half ago for $29 each from a LFS that stocks ORA captive bred fish. THe black has filled in on the face considerably since these pictures were taken (April of '05).

Kevin

 

[raoul]

I'm drooling! I want a pair of those too! We're cycling a 75 right now. We've got orange false percs in a 30 and they're nice and happy with their nem.
I'd love to place a pair of these black beauties in the 75 with a rose bta, I think the color combo would be striking. Good luck on your search! I've been asking a couple of the good lfs here if they can order them for me and they said they could.

 

[maroonytunes]

Preuss Pets had some last week for 32 a piece, the website is www.preusspets.com

 

[Phyxius]

My wife picked these guys up last yr for our tank. Not sure which they are exactly with all the names floating around for black colored ones....... It was her only request for it to have black clowns. She thought everyone had orange and reds but hardly saw blacks and thats what she liked about them. They have paired off and grown some more since this pick last yr. They are very gentle and perfect tank residents and actually will come up to my hand if I go slow when feeding. They orange has faded away more on them also since then. Even more so since we got them and they were about 1 1/2" long

 

[dodo99]

Here's mine, also from ORA.

 

[Xirxes23]

Ok, Two black Osc. juniors from england in the mail!

Any recommended acclimation techniques? 15-20 temp acclimate, add 1/8 bag water every 5 minutes until twice level?

 

[stykthyn]

drip acclimate with a piece of airhose. put the fish in a bucket with just enough water to cover them and start siphoning water from your tank into the bucket. when the water starts tie a loose knot in the hose till the water drips. should take a couple of hours. are you going to QT?

 

[Xirxes23]

nope, they are foster and smith (14 day guarantee), and i dont have any other fish in tank (or QT tank for that matter), so im fairly safe.

 

[stykthyn]

good deal

 

[Xirxes23]

just pour the bucket into tank then? I hear that nets really freak out these little buggers.

 

[stykthyn]

no, you dont want to pour in the bucket, I usually use a container of some sort. drain the bucket into the drain until it gets really low. I usually use a shot glass or childs cup for smaller fish.

 

[fadeintoblue]

These little fellas being mislabeled is pretty common, I got a pair from SW Fish (didn't know any better then) for my 24 nano when I started in this hobby a couple years ago, sadly the mail made a leap into the overflow he didn't survive. I tried finding a replacement locally, I called every store in town, 3 or 4 said they had them, I'd drive 50 miles to see saddlebacks mislabeled as Black percs or false black percs. really PMO. rest of the story, ordered a replacement male, and after all that she tried for 2 months to kill him before I got him who's now a her a tank of his own and a buddy.

 

[phishlet]

Here you go

http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/clownfish/ocellarisclownblackwhiteaustrali/

http://www.marinedepotlive.com/blandwhoccla.html

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1114