What Arowana do you keep? Take 2

[Koji]

Why don't you just keep it simple? Sometime reading too much into the internet may not give you the real answer to questions.

I would classify the aros as followed :

Asian
Green Arowana
Banjar Red / Grade 1.5 Red / Grade 2 Red / Yellow Tail
Red Tail Golden (RTG) / Highback Red Tail Golden (HBRTG)
Crossback Golden
Grade 1 Super Red (Chilli / Blood)

Australian
Leichardti
Jardini

Silver Arowana
Black Arowana
African Arowana

Just my opinion....

 

[ausarow]

not a bad effort this time but you will learn some yet.
this might bring about some education for a few people including me.
for example i did not know if yellow tail, banjar red and 1.5 do get their own certs.

the australian arowana would still cover two seperate species that you have listed ( jardini and leichardti). so someone may not know this and the results might be skewed.

S.leichardti is from the fitzroy/dawson river system and found in some offshoot branches of those rivers. so people often call this south east qld variety.

S.jardini, which should stay there under its own name ( australian arowana removed) is found on the west side of cape york area in QLD and toward inland on some of those fresh rivers, in patches of the gulf of carpentaria and around darwin and across into the top of western australia. so you could say this was top north, or often called "gulf saratogas" but while that is slightly misleading because they dont just come from the gulf area it is certainly used to differentiate from those leichardti in "south east QLD".
these have been stocked into some other rivers/ water catchments for fishing purposes.
along with s.leichardti, for example leichardti has been stocked on the eastern side of north QLD and down towards the brisbane area, in some catchments. likewise there has been some stocking of jardini outside their natural range.

BUT to be particular, S.jardini is also native to papau new guinea, the fly river for example. this is another reason why any term Australian arowanas can become misleading unless it is mentioned that they are also found in PNG areas and has two seperate species, jars and leis.
( PNG was once connected to the top of Australia when a lot of water was held up as ice and so the water level was lower).

Then yes there are silver asian arows, they may be called grey tail and there is most probably a yellow tail form as well. so some will say "grey tail silver" or "yellow tail silver".
not to be confused with the silver from south america.
which is probably a good reason for using species names.
of which names have not been made for all the various river forms/colour types and of which CITES has recently voted not to use the newer species names and chose to stick just with S.formosus.
the scientists did not make names for all varieties and i think by default ( i could be wrong here) the blue asian came under S.formosus.

you could break up greens like as was done but there is probably no real need.
if you bought a green, it would be harder to call where it came from.
they might be called "arowana" but they are also known commonly as "asians" even if from say vietnam and borneo. this is similar to pointing out that jardinis are from other locations than australia and if done properly the list would become very extensive and once again, who knows if the jardini came from the wild in PNG or from the wild in australia or came from an asian farm and who knows where their green broods came from.

if you have a chip tag number, you can locate the farm and take a guess.
you could leave the red category as is, but really they could be known as all "reds".

peoples brains will hurt by the time this survey was formed properly and much debate would occur anyway.

leaving it simple i would atleast remove the australian box and put a location for silver arowana and black.

 

[peewee]

green silver rtg.

 

[spwd]

RTG for me.



Steve

 

[idle0095]

okay so should i change the poll options? add to them or remove some?

 

[T1KARMANN]

this is a silly poll with MFK having mainly US members silver will win all day long

 

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To the OP,what's the difference between Green Arowana and Green Asian Arowana? What's a Silver Asian Arowana? What's the difference between Red Arowana and Red, Super Red, Blood Red, or Chili Red Arowana (Asian)? What's the difference between Australian Arowana and Leichardti,Jardini? Sorry for so many questions.

I don't think including the Hybrid is neccesary.

I do since they come with cert.

 

[impala]

I do since they come with cert.

100% Correct

No offence meant, but poll is seriously flawed imo.

 

[idle0095]

its flawed again. tell me why you think that? my first poll i was told to make it more indetail and list every sepecies. so i did. but now your saying its flawed??

 

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Since your asking...

Youve got leich and jardini listed and then you have an austrailian arow option.

Aswell you have greens and silvers listed twice and blue and blacks as one option and two options for reds