Black "Silver" Arowana

[mike999g]

Amazing aro, would look fantastic in my tank!

 

[evil_monkey]

stunning!!!!!!

 

[fishtankdork]

wow. imagine puttin one of thoose with a plantinum....

 

[adobongrabbit]

nice black!

 

[jerrym]

Looks Beautiful.

 

[Superlaz]

SO I take the melanistic gene is recessive...? does that mean to get more blacks you have to breed the offspring back to the black parent??

 

[Bderick67]

So the aro at your uncle's is a "Black" silver aro not a "Black" black aro.

 

[mwkoi]

That's right. It is a silver aro.

 

[wizzin]

I'm glad to see people captive breeding silvers. If we're not careful with the wild silvers, they're going to end up like the Asian aros. He's sitting on a gold mine with that black silver. If he would breed, that would be some expensive offspring...

 

[JESToner]

SO I take the melanistic gene is recessive...? does that mean to get more blacks you have to breed the offspring back to the black parent??

well if it really is recessive gene (and not a mutation)
then you could mate this black one with a regular silver, and you would get babies that have a Bb genotype (make a punnet square like they teach you in college and high school) so if you breed two of the offspring who have the Bb genotype, then theres a 25% chance of the F2 generation having the bb genotype.

make any sense?

but i think melanistic is a mutation, not an actual gene