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I believe black should be included as well, because the stripes are black.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

i did not put black because the color in them can vary so much (such as all purple or all orange) and the black stripes can be dark purple, and I've even sold some without black stripes, where the orange just hits right next to the purple. Also, the field is main colors, if it were colors in general, then i would think the bright iridescent blue that trims the dorsal, anal, and tail fin would be more important than the black because it stands out more, but also is not apparent in all specimins and can even vary under different lighting.

95% percent of the Coral Beauties I've sold and seen being sold have distinct black stripes.

It is extremely probable that an average hobbyist who most likely has an average Coral Beauty and is searching for it by color would consider the main colors to be purple, orange, and black.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

to be honest (and not just argumentative) I would prefer the blue to the black. You say distinct black stripes, as if they were quite obvious, however, my opinion would be that the blue is more distinct, both close look and from a distance. A flame angel on the other hand, the black is very distinct and IMO, black would be a main color.

Either way, my final feeling is MAIN colors are solely purple and orange. Using the royal gramma's profile as a random example, the main colors are blue and yellow, however it is very obvious that there is a black spot on the dorsal fin, and a line through the eye, but not marked on the profile.

Either way, I don't mind how the voting goes, but this does bring up an very odd thing in that MANY of the marine profiles do not have colors marked on the profile.

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I agree with cory here. Looking at photos on the internet the stripes strike me as black on most photos. As someone not experienced in sw fish and if i was going by what the profile here states it would fit better if black was included.

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Many of our coral beauties do not have obvious black markings at all. I myself would not include black as a main color, it's more of an accessory. It would be helpful to include some data about this in the "Variants" section, to clarify things a bit.

And yes, a lot of the marine fish profiles are lacking. There aren't even profiles for a lot of commonly kept fish.

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Nick got what I was trying to say

I was thinking more along the lines of looking at a blurry picture of the fish, what would you see. In the case of the coral beauty you would obviously see the purple and orange.

And like nick said, the black is more of an accessory color. Another example would be the black on ocellaris clownfish. From a distance, it isn't noticeable, but when really looked at it is.

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Agrees with cory and lindy

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I defenantly think that in the special comments section variants should be discussed, however the main colours that I see are orange and purple and if the picture was blurred the black would look more purple and that is often how I would descide what the main colours are. I have a creamcicle molly and it has black pepppering but the main colour is orange and white I wouldnt mention the black because unless your looking at it closly you wont see it. And from afar black looks like purple.

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A quick scan of some Centropyge bispinosus photos via Google Images yielded the following results:

3 - thin vertical lines purplish-blue
4 - thin vertical stripes possibly black (but maybe purple)
1 - stripes were grey but so were the remainder of the normally blue areas on the fish, a possible victim of cyanide collecting ...
1 - stripes rust coloured (collected from Hawaii)
1 - stripes rust coloured (collection point unspecified)
1 stripes were black in photo but so were all of the normally blue areas

In the case of at least two of the four photos in the second category above, the blue areas were very dark in the images, suggesting possible underexposure of the negative or CCD chip when the photo was taken.

However, a quick Google search leads me to conclude that the fish is sufficiently variable in this regard for a bald statement of "black" as one of its principal colours to be an oversimplification that may be misleading.

What colours were originally specified in the edit? If the main colours were listed as blue/purple and orange, I would say "Approve".


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