I have a blue aro in a tank with my chupicabra and my sasquatch, no such thing its mislabeled at the lfs and people prosiest in calling blacks blue.Blue Black Arowana
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I have a blue aro in a tank with my chupicabra and my sasquatch, no such thing its mislabeled at the lfs and people prosiest in calling blacks blue.
badfish;2673299; said:
Dude black aro and blue aro are the names given to Osteoglossum ferreirai. They got that names because they are black with yellow or white line on the body when they are still young. They later lose the black coloration and slowy turn to silver with blue and redish golden rims on the scales and a blue fins with yellow on the tips of the fins. This is why they are called a blue aro.
Did the chupicabra and sasquatch told you that blue aro's name don't exist.
badfish;2673299; said:
I agree, blue aro is a nonsense name made up by the trade to try to make them seem more special and sell for a higher price to an unknowing halfwit who hasn't done their research and there for knows that even if its called "the mighty orange finned titanium scaled amazon leaping fish" its still just Osteoglossum ferrari.
Isn't one common name enough?
David R;2674418; said:I agree, blue aro is a nonsense name made up by the trade to try to make them seem more special and sell for a higher price to an unknowing halfwit who hasn't done their research and there for knows that even if its called "the mighty orange finned titanium scaled amazon leaping fish" its still just Osteoglossum ferrari.
Isn't one common name enough?
Call them whatever you wanna call them. It depend on the person if he/she will call their Osteoglossum ferreirai, black aro or blue aro. Those people who does not know the names of Osteoglossum ferreirai are the one that does not do their research.
Get to know their common names so you won't end up getting ripped off by some lfs that try to sell them. That's the purpose of knowing both names.
So if you have a silver aro that turns pink is it a pink or just a silver with with red or pinkish coloration. maybe they should be cauterized and called something different so the lfs can charge more, exotic pinks sounds fancy. You can call your aro anything you want its not going to change species, blacks and silvers that's it for south America.
badfish;2674991; said:Or that's what my blue gremlin told me.
That's up to you and your imaginary friends
OUCH! my blue aro is not going to be happy to hear that he doesn't exist.
badfish;2674964; said:
There is no convention governing common names (as there is with Latin names) so if you want to call it a pink arowana, or a pink silver arowana, or a pilver, or a platnum pink flying siamese gulperfish. And no one can really argue that you are "wrong".
Thats why common names are stupid and people should learn to use latin...
I totally agree ,my point it that twisting a common name by a lfs is misleading for new fish keepers making them feel they have something they don't.
