"White" coloured L201

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kakamac
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"White" coloured L201

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G'day All,

I have an unusually coloured L201 which I bred. He is a few months old now and has not lost the colouration or rather gained the normal L201 colouration. Can anyone shed light on what he/she may be? Many thanks in advance for your help.


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Jade
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Re: "White" coloured L201

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Sounds like you have an amelanistic form of L201 - same genetic defect [1] as .

[1] Ok, so technically it may be any number of genetic defects that produce the lack of colour. I'm calling it "same" because it is looking the same, not because I know (or even suspect) that the same genes are actually involved.

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Re: "White" coloured L201

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It looks like an albino to me - by the way the light is reflecting off the eyes. Either way - it's a very valuable fish and definitely worth crossing to a regular and then back again to produce more. Too bad you're on another continent so I can't buy some of your eventual fry!
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CAnt really tell the colour of the eye properly, on the second pic it looks like a red but the third shows a black. But an albino/amelanistic version of L201 is still really cool.
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Kakamac, are the eyes red or black?
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Re: "White" coloured L201

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Thanks all for the replies. Here are two more photos i took. I hope they help. By the way it seems to have red eyes.

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Kak
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If it's got red eyes, then it's an albino form.

If you can get some better photos, please submit them to Jools for publication - see the "Cool->Contribute" section.

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Re: "White" coloured L201

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Thanks Mats i'll have to look at submitting it to Jools if I can get any good pics. As you can see when stressed it goes a little greyish in colour as can be seen by the latest two photos. Not sure what it means but it was a surprise to see this little one emerge from the cave.

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Kak
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