If silvers and blacks were the same price....

[David R]

Just a thought I had while reading the thread about crossing blacks and silvers, if blacks were as widely available as silvers and the same price, would anyone still buy silvers? To me the silver has always seemed like a cheaper and less attractive substitute for a black, to the point where I will probably never own another south american arowana unless someone starts importing blacks into NZ again. I hate the way drop-eye looks, and even with out it I just find the blacks far more attractive and graceful than silvers.

So, if every store that sold silvers had blacks at the same size and price available, would you still buy a silver?

 

[rallysman]

The blacks are no more graceful than a silver, IME they're actually more skiddish. I think blacks are more attractive, but they're also a lot thinner/leaner than a silver. I love the look of a big old brute silver. It is too bad about the drop eye though. It does make them look a bit more primitive though I guess lol.

Long story short, they are both awesome.

 

[dragonfish18]

Just a thought I had while reading the thread about crossing blacks and silvers, if blacks were as widely available as silvers and the same price, would anyone still buy silvers? To me the silver has always seemed like a cheaper and less attractive substitute for a black, to the point where I will probably never own another south american arowana unless someone starts importing blacks into NZ again. I hate the way drop-eye looks, and even with out it I just find the blacks far more attractive and graceful than silvers.

So, if every store that sold silvers had blacks at the same size and price available, would you still buy a silver?

yea...i would..... my mom always says my aros are lucky...cuz shes old school chinese....if they was black it probly wouldnt be they most lucky of colors

 

[Hao]

id choose silver b/c i like picking the high shine 1s so white =D but if asian arowanas were legal and same price id get 24k full goldies =D

 

[Hao]

yea...i would..... my mom always says my aros are lucky...cuz shes old school chinese....if they was black it probly wouldnt be they most lucky of colors

ey im chinese too gawd and its not old school its called feng shui

 

[Cichla dude]

both I would buy

 

[FSM]

Drop eye is the worst thing about silvers IMO.

The blacks are no more graceful than a silver, IME they're actually more skiddish. I think blacks are more attractive, but they're also a lot thinner/leaner than a silver. I love the look of a big old brute silver. It is too bad about the drop eye though. It does make them look a bit more primitive though I guess lol.

Long story short, they are both awesome.

2 lines...that qualifies as an epic.

 

[Bderick67]

I would still probably buy another silver aro.

 

[dbcb314]

I like the thickness of silvers

drop eye doesn't bother me at all... I didn't even know notice it until I came to this site. I just thought that is how silvers looked

 

[Onion01]

if silvers had no drop eye and blacks were cheap, i would take the silver. blacks look nice when they're smaller, up to around 15". When aros get bigger and their tail finnage isn't as pronounced, silvers win hands down