Percula or Ocellaris??? Are the LFS workers useless??

OK...is this fish a Perculla or Ocellaris. I bought them from the LFS...someone traded them in. They are a good size mated pair a good 2.5" female and 2" male. I dont want to bias the poll, so I am not going to say yet what I was told they were.

 

perc i think

i think i counted ten couldnt really tell

 

Do you mean true or false perc? A false perc is an occelaris.

 

I am wanting to know if it is a true perc or a false.

 

wild percs if you look at their eyes should have be tiny black dot then orange ring then black...ill try and get a pic of my percs with the tiny eyes..and they are darker orange more black orange

thats what i have been told and read about..i got true percs and they have tiny eyes

this is all you need
http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/anemoneclownfishprofiles/ss/sbstruevsfalseperc.htm

i vote occs now, the more i look at it..but i think i counted 10 dorsals,,try and get a shot of him with his dorsal fin straight up

 

heres my true percs..you see how they have the blackish back..and there middle stripe is really pointy.. and thick dark black lines, even the white stripes are thicker and more even

 

I'm going against the grain and voting false perc (occelaris). Just not enough black to be true percs.

 

and when i feed them heavy heavy, the percs almost get a full blackish orange color..or when i feed them a good piece of meat or oysters for a while they get really really dark almost black..ive cut back since ive been so busy with school since it started back up

heres another pic..count the dorsal fin..theres 10 of them,,this is an almost for sure fact its a perc


here you can see the fin starting to turn black

 

There is really no definitive way to distinguish. The most accurate it to count the dorsal spines, but an oc an perc, in some cases can have 10. I think I counted 9, which would make it a perc, but I am having trouble makeing some out from the pic Also the eye seems to have a bit more orange, but could be the photo. I would guess perc, but very close.

 

I agree...