please help ID clown fish, picasso premium onyx? ect.

[moneyallgone]

Hello everyone! I am new to the hobby (5 months) and very very excited to learn and enjoy my new pass time. This is my first post ever. I bought this clowns for cheap money (30 a pop). Please help I'd. I have looked online and have not been able to find any good info. I know there is a lot of great clownfish people in this forum (the best!) Thanks in advance. (Cannot upload file it tells me a security token is missing!!? Lol https://youtu.be/1bX-LVVC9yo

 

[michellejy]

It looks like a Picasso Percula to me, but I would wait for second opinions.

 

[moneyallgone]

Thanks it was sold to me as a Picasso (smaller) and onyx the larger one..

 

[nanoreefer1000]

Larger one is a Snow Onyx

 

[ReefDoberman]

its a DaVinci

 

[Rudimenta]

Ocellaris at first glance, that would DaVinci and Picasso are frequently interchanged, so my guess DaVinci Ocellaris, would have said Picasso if it looked like a Percula

 

[Rudimenta]

Can't edit, but guess you catch my drift

 

[nemoboy1]

Nowadays too many hybridizing of clowns especially designers. To me the pattern points out to be davinci but a few features like eyes and not so high top fin points to be percula. So it's most likely a hybrid. Nice pickup regardless.

 

[ThRoewer]

It's a saltwater guppy

But seriously, these days it is getting harder and harder to say what is what. Too many people just breed whatever they have or even mix species and strains just for the heck of it and sell it for whatever they think it may resemble best.

Last weekend I saw a percula that was listed as a wild Solomon percula but it was clearly tank bred. The store got it from Sea Dwelling Creatures as a wild Solomon percula.
The same store had some fish that looked like black photons listed as Onyx.

At another store I saw a black photon and some fish that might have been a fancy ocellaris, but was told they were true percula. Though they had clearly black eyes and the while haze around the black borders on the soft rayed fins that indicate ocellaris.

Reckless interbreeding and uninformed store staff leads to a total mess with clownfish species. The percula-ocellaris complex as already been totally muddled up.

There is a reason why I wouldn't touch a tank raised ocellaris or percula with a 10ft pole unless I would know the breeder and the parents were wild caught.

 

[nanoreefer1000]

Pretty obvious to me that it's a Picasso and Snow Onyx pair. Js

 

[D-Nak]

Unfortunately, as others have mentioned, without knowing the breeder and/or lineage, these could be anything, especially given all of the hybridization taking place. The larger one is definitely not an Onyx.

 

[OrionN]

The body shape look like tank bread Percula. The larger clown clearly have snowflake gene, originally in Ocellaris and the smaller one have DaVinci gene (sloping top connected bars) originally in Ocellaris. I would guess that you have a hybrid with DaVinci in one and Snowflake in the other.
You have "American clownfish", a mixture of everything.

 

[biggie smalls]

The markings look like, to me, a DaVinci Ocellaris clown (the first one).

+1 do D-Nak

 

[addictedreefer]

The body shape look like tank bread Percula. The larger clown clearly have snowflake gene, originally in Ocellaris and the smaller one have DaVinci gene (sloping top connected bars) originally in Ocellaris. I would guess that you have a hybrid with DaVinci in one and Snowflake in the other.
You have "American clownfish", a mixture of everything.

+1. yuck.