Albino, Leucistic, Xanthic, Melanistic, etc. Fish

[rayman45]

frttttt


Here's another lame pic for a non-hacker that can't follow thread rules.

melanistic lady bug:

 

[davo]

Every post has to have a picture. see if you can edit it with an interesting fish leucistic/ albino etc. Otherwise oddball will lol.

 

[fugupuff]

have to post this ray up again, its freaking amazing, makes me want to start an all albino or abbarrant color collection

 

[Jeox]

Albino zebra shark

 

[dodgefreak8]

my very strange rainbow R.I.P

 

[Oddball]

Is that rainbow an amelanistic variant of a Bosemani? Never saw one before.

And, what are you doing posting pics of MY future jag???!!!


Oh...and here's a pair of my albino Dimidiochromis compressiceps

 

[Oddball]

Piebald Parancistris

 

[Oddball]

I really hope he kept it alive. It's a helluva melanistic bowfin.

 

[davo]

Piebald Parancistris

if this is P. aurantiacus which im sure it is, they go through a colour change as they age, so im not sure if its considered piebald. Heres an example, they are darker, start to change and so this piebald effect, then they end up like this (pic 1, 2 and 3&4)

This also happens in Hypostomus luteus... (pics 5-9)
just wondering oddball is there a special name for this, and does it come under the category as leucisitc. Also if you know, what is the cause? Cheers, enjoy pics.

 

[Oddball]

just wondering oddball is there a special name for this, and does it come under the category as leucisitc. Also if you know, what is the cause? Cheers, enjoy pics.

Yep, this characteristic comes with a few 64 cent words:

Usually, radical color changes observed within a species is linked to sexual maturity, spawning, and perhaps territoriality of predominantly males of a population and is termed as polychromatism. If both genders, within a species, share the same color changes and these changes are linked with maturity and aging, then this is termed as the heritability and heterochrony of polychromatism.

Heritability is the extent to which individual phenotypes are determined by their genotypes. (traits passed down through generations)

Heterochrony relates to the timing of development (age triggers)


And, I better not forget my pic.

How about a xanthic cat-fish?