Black "Silver" Arowana

[Bderick67]

first pic, O.Ferrerai second pic O. Bicirrhosum

 

[mwkoi]

These are not the offspring of the Melanistic Silver arowana. These are offfspring from the pond that contains the Melanistic Silver aro. There are approximately 60 adult silver arowanas in that one pond.

 

[cjack]

that is easilly the coolest fish ive ever seen. Unfortunatly for there to be a good supply of offspiring with similar coloration, one would have to breed the "black silver" with a silver. Then two of the offspring together and you would be able to get about 25% of the babies to have the black color, but also any immune issues or any other mutations will become more noticible. Unfortunatly that is the problem with inbreeding.

The only way to fix that is to wait about a decade and mate the black's offspring with another pairs offspring, and keep that going with about three or four other breeding pairs. With this approach the fish should remain healthy and still get the color. However, the time issue is insane. But.....if you had another "black silver" you could breed the two and get blacks fast and avoid inbreeding....that would be insane!!!