Can someone please positively ID these clowns, it's been a bit of a issue

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jmrybak
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Can someone please positively ID these clowns, it's been a bit of a issue - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:44 PM
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These were supposedly shipped together to a retailer and sold as either occellaris or percula, ill refrain from swaying the results with the as purchased distinction. Let me know how you decided too! thanks!







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Re:Can someone please positively ID these clowns, it's been a bit of a issue - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:39 PM
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A person in my local reef club has a similar pair.  They look like ocellaris, but have the spine count (and were sold as) percula.  I raised some of their babies to adulthood.  They had all three stripes within a month.  Slower than ocellaris, faster than percula.  It's my guess that its a hybrid.

Here are a couple pics of his:



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Re:Can someone please positively ID these clowns, it's been a bit of a issue - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:50 PM
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Honestly, larger looks percula, smaller looks ocellaris.  Just my gut reaction to the pix.
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Re:Can someone please positively ID these clowns, it's been a bit of a issue - Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:39 AM
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I agree with Matt so if they came from the same place then I also agree with Scottt about being hybrids.  I've raised Perc/Ocellaris hybrids that have some in each hatch that looked like Percs and some that looked like Ocellaris.  All of them barred up very quickly (within 4 months) but they grew very slowly.