QUIZ:What Are The 10 Most Numerous Marine Fish In The Trade?

[John_Brandt]

QUIZ: What Top 10 Marine Fish Are The Worldwide Leaders As Most Numerous In The Aquarium Trade??

Based on International figures of export/import from the trade. Which fish are they?

The answers will come on Monday night. Give it a shot. Take some guesses, you might be surprised.....

 

[D]

Here are my guess's



1) Clownfish

2)yellow tang

3) blue damsel fish

4) Carribean angels

5) Mandarins

6) Nurse sharks

7) Butterfly fish

8) Royal Gramma

9) Trigger Fish

10) Lionfish



Harder than i thought!


Later,

Hose sucking algae scraper

 

[John_Brandt]

CLARIFICATION:

This quiz uses actual species names. Many people have guessed using family or subfamily names. A family name such as 'damsels' covers over 300 species, and even includes the anemonefishes (clownfish). You are welcome to use common names of the fishes. The answers will come with a common and scientific name.

Some of you might want to put your thinking caps back on with this new clarification. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough originally

 

[JennM]

For some reason I think it's a trick question Probably not at all what "we" see lots of in the industry here. However, I'll take a shot at it....

All top 10 are species of Damselfishes/Anemonefishes

(Just a shot in the dark and probably wrong but what the heck...) D's list was pretty good too - all the "common" stuff.

Jenn

 

[dizzy]

Nurse sharks? I hope not.
Domino damsel
4-stripe damsel
blue damsel
yellow tail blue
green chromis
common clown or false perk
coral catfish
three stripe damsel
two stripe damsel
yellow tang

 

[Kalkbreath]

For some reason I think it's a trick question Probably not at all what "we" see lots of in the industry here. However, I'll take a shot at it....

All top 10 are species of Damselfishes/Anemonefishes

(Just a shot in the dark and probably wrong but what the heck...) D's list was pretty good too - all the "common" stuff.

Jenn

I agree........its the clarification about clownfish and Damsel fish that gave the results away :wink: {Your sharp Jen}!

 

[John_Brandt]

THE ANSWERS:

1) Green chromis (Chromis viridis)
2) Yellow tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)
3) Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
4) Blue damselfish (Chrysiptera cyanea)
5) 3-stripe damselfish (Dascyllus aruanus)
6) Domino (3-spot) damselfish (Dascyllus trimaculatus)
7) Yellowtail damselfish (Chrysiptera parasema)
8> 4-stripe damselfish (Dascyllus melanurus)
9) Cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)
10) Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus)


The Big Surprise......nobody guessed Cleaner wrasse!

The Big Winner......dizzy (Mitch Gibbs) from the Industry Forum! Mitch had 8 correct answers, but none correctly ranked.

Number of participants: 16

Fish with the most guesses: Yellow tang - 15 guesses

Fish with the least guesses: 4-stripe damselfish - 1 guess

Eight different people guessed one fish in the correct ranking.

Four different people guessed Yellow tang in the correct ranking.

 

[JennM]

Cleaner wrasse was surprising - but I don't stock them so maybe that's why it wouldn't have occurred to me. The rest were not surprising at all.

I carry the green chromis and yellow tangs but most of the damsels I have were trade-ins purchased elsewhere, where the owner lived to regret their buy....

I don't stock Mandarins either. I'll order them special for people with a proper environment for them but they are too easily an 'impulse' buy - I've taken in a few emaciated ones that were bought elsewhere too.

I run a foundling home.....

Jenn

 

[blue_hula]

John,

Just out of curiousity, what is the source of the data for this ranking?

Thanks,

Blue hula