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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.


Regards,
Jade

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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Mats

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!

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.

Kakamac, are the eyes red or black?

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.

Regards,
Kak

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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Mats

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.

Regards,
Kak