My new Astro "Black Ice" Clown Babies!!! - Page 2

paddyob · #1 09-14-2013, 04:11 PM

Careful renaming. As using two fish from a breeder still results in the name of the fish you started with.

What are you breeding to begin with?

Timbits · #2 09-22-2013, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by paddyob

Careful renaming. As using two fish from a breeder still results in the name of the fish you started with.

What are you breeding to begin with?

Thanks for the heads up! I think it is ok to rename your own offspring though as I've seen many other breeders do it and all the large wholesalers. ORA calls their Picasso offspring "ORA Picasso," and Sustainable Aquatics calls their Picasso offspring "SA Picasso" regardless of where they came from. I believe what you produce is your own so you can name them anything you want.

The parents are Black ice Snowflake Ocellaris clowns. When I saw the babies they produced I just thought "Astro" was a cute name and suited them.

paddyob · #3 09-22-2013, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Timbits

Thanks for the heads up! I think it is ok to rename your own offspring though as I've seen many other breeders do it and all the large wholesalers. ORA calls their Picasso offspring "ORA Picasso," and Sustainable Aquatics calls their Picasso offspring "SA Picasso" regardless of where they came from. I believe what you produce is your own so you can name them anything you want.

The parents are Black ice Snowflake Ocellaris clowns. When I saw the babies they produced I just thought "Astro" was a cute name and suited them.

No. If you breed two SA black ice. They are still SA black ice. If you look at SA website. They even credit Another breeder for a line they have.

Timbits · #4 09-22-2013, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by paddyob

No. If you breed two SA black ice. They are still SA black ice. If you look at SA website. They even credit Another breeder for a line they have.

True. Yes, they are still SA black ice because that's their lineage. But I still think you can name them anything you want as long as its not patented.

I found a quote from Matthew Carberry, President of SA - "SA hasn’t and has no plans to trademark a fish/coral name. I’m happy about this too–it makes a consistent presentation to the hobbyist/trade that makes it easier to see what you are getting. We call our fish “SA XXX” just to designate where they were bred versus another breeder working on the same morph. Use of different names for the same morph is confusing to the hobbyist.”