Difference between true percs and false percs???

[supersmile]

What is the difference between these 2 and how do you know if you have a true or false percula?

[Midknight]

One lies a lot?

[muck]

• Percula Clownfish, Clown Anemonefish
  (Amphiprion percula)
  Photo by Rob Borycki
  
• Because of its name, Amphiprion percula, it is the True Percula Clownfish.
• Typically orange in color with three white bars, with the middle bar having a forward-projecting bulge.
• Has 10 (rarely 9) dorsal spines.
• Usually has jet black margins of varied widths around its white bars, often of which can be rather thick.
• Distribution of this species in nature: Northern Queensland and Melanesia (New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu).

• False Percula, Ocellaris Clownfish
  (Amphiprion ocellaris)
  Photo by David Wade
  
• Typically orange in color with three white bars, with the middle bar having a forward-projecting bulge.
• Has 11 (rarely 10) dorsal spines.
• The spinous (anterior) part of the dorsal fin is taller.
• May have no black margins present, but most often has thin, never thick black margins around its white bars.
• Distribution of this species in nature: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Andaman Sea), Indo-Malayan Archipelago, Philippines, northwestern Australia; coast of Southeast Asia northwards to the Ryukyu Islands.

[OCDP]

bah... muck's got it.

[BlueNWhite]

So is that one on the left side a True or not?

[BCOrchidGuy]

I believe the one on the left is a occelaris, most times the black band is more like a fine pencil line where on the percula it's more like a marker line.

Doug

[bubblepuffer]

hmmm I think Polygraph will do the job well =)

[mr_alberta]

Originally Posted by supersmile

What is the difference between these 2 and how do you know if you have a true or false percula?

Price. True percs are usually a little bit more. Other than that, you'll never be able to tell IMO.

[X-Treme]

Not at all sure about this but....I was TOLD....... a true perc instinctively hosts and an occellaris may not at all. Just what I was told at a LFS.