IYHO What's the best Clown Fish Species & Why?

[dbartco]

when you start a thread, you have the option to start a poll under "poll options"

[Mich]

when you start a thread, you have the option to start a poll under "poll options"

 

Sweet.

 

If I were to restart this thread with a poll does anyone have suggestions as to how / what the voting choices should be? Does everyone like the idea of making special color forms of one particular species different voting categories? That way breeder bias can't effect the outcome.

[dbartco]

Or post up the q's and I can make this thread a poll for you.

[traveller7]

I would refine your intended concept of "best" before tailoring the answers :>)

 

Best means lots of things to lots of different people, hence, you won't really know what your results indicate

[Mich]

I would refine your intended concept of "best" before tailoring the answers :>)

 

Best means lots of things to lots of different people, hence, you won't really know what your results indicate

 

Too true, that's why I put the "IYHO" bit in there. It's nice to see the thought process behind the opinion though. You don't neccesarily need to have rationality behind a favorite. So many various parameters can effect how someone measures something against a personal Ideal. The way someone judges a clownfish can demonstrate this ideal without it being directly spelled out. You're right however, if it's a poll it should probably say something to the effect of "What is your favorite clownfish"

 

Or post up the q's and I can make this thread a poll for you.

 

That would be awesome! Can you also change the title of the post so it says "(now includes poll)"? I guess I want the question to be; "What is your favorite clownfish?", and can we also have what is your least favorite? I want the subsequent to List to be choices;

 

 

Amphiprion akallopisos - Skunk clownfish

 

Amphiprion akindynos - Barrier Reef clownfish

 

Amphiprion allardi - Twobar clownfish

 

Amphiprion bicinctus - Twoband clownfish

 

Amphiprion chagosensis - Chagos clownfish

 

Amphiprion chrysogaster - Mauritian clownfish

 

Amphiprion chrysopterus - Orange-fin clownfish

 

Amphiprion clarkii - Yellowtail clownfish

 

Amphiprion ephippium - Saddle clownfish

 

Amphiprion frenatus - Tomato clownfish

 

Amphiprion fuscocaudatus - Seychelles clownfish

 

Amphiprion latezonatus - Wide-band clownfish

 

Amphiprion latifasciatus - Madagascar clownfish

 

Amphiprion leucokranos - Whitebonnet clownfish

 

Amphiprion mccullochi - Whitesnout clownfish

 

Amphiprion melanopus - Fire clownfish

 

Amphiprion nigripes - Maldive clownfish

 

Amphiprion ocellaris - Ocellaris clownfish

-Common type

-Black & White

-Naked

-Stubby

-(anyone else...?)

 

Amphiprion omanensis - Oman clownfish

 

Amphiprion percula - True Percula clownfish

-Common type

-Onyx

-Picasso

-(anyone else...?)

 

Amphiprion perideraion - Pink skunk clownfish

 

Amphiprion polymnus - Saddleback clownfish

 

Amphiprion rubacinctus - Red clownfish

 

Amphiprion sandaracinos - Yellow clownfish

 

Amphiprion sebae - Sebae clownfish

 

Amphiprion thiellei - Thielle's clownfish

 

Amphiprion tricinctus - Three-band clownfish

 

Premnas biaculeatus - Maroon clownfish

 

Premnas biaculeatus epigrammata - Gold Barred Maroon clownfish

 

please let me know which ones I'm missing.

[dbartco]

my fingers hurt...

[Mich]

my fingers hurt...

 

Mine too, sorry about that. I hope it was mostly copying and pasting. I noticed you didn't divide up percula and ocellaris... percula is probably going to win again. Oh well, que sera... Thanks a lot though, I really appreciate it.

[dbartco]

ccouldn't create subpolls.

[traveller7]

See what I mean

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.p...80#post14797680

[traveller7]

Figure I'll provoke a discussion over there, but the photo is terrible without knowing about flash use, multiple angles, point of collection, etc.

[dshnarw]

If you take a trip by Scales, you'll see a similar quandry. They have two large groups of occies/percs. By "conventional wisdom", you'd look at the percs and think they were occies because they're less brightly orange, less black. Similarly, the occies they have are very bright orange and have wider black striping.

 

 

I would guess that a decent amount of cross-breeding has happened with these species in captivity as well, and many of the captive bred clowns are now some mix of the two.

[Jon Lazar]

I would refine your intended concept of "best" before tailoring the answers :>)

 

Best means lots of things to lots of different people, hence, you won't really know what your results indicate

 

Uh oh. I thought I was voting for which ones tasted the best. Definitely oscellaris; plus they wriggle a lot goin' down!

[Mich]

Only seven people have voted? C'mon!