What Fish would you like to see an Albino, Leucistic or Platinum Variant Of??

[Miles]

The informational post about all the different albinoisms, makes me think about how many of those 'symptoms' are very characteristic of the MANY different Freshwater Stingray patterns that have been formed.

All the Castexi variants, Motoro variants, and other 'mystery' type rays that are unidentified could definately fall into a majority of those categories.

 

[Miles]

Let me throw a few out there to make you guys think a lil'

Very interesting to me..

Abundism
Markings are more prolific than usual

Chain-Link Motoros?

Anerythristic albinism
Lacking the red colour. The actual colour and pattern of the animal depends on what other colours are in the pattern. One effect might be a bluish-grey animal.

Black Barred Midas.. ring a bell?

Axanthic albinism
Lacking the yellow colour. The actual colour and pattern of the animal depends on what other colours are in the pattern.

Again.. Lots of different variants in species such as the Midas.. White Midas, Black Midas, Orange Midas, Red Midas..etc.

Dilution
The colour is washed out e.g. black becomes blue (grey), red becomes cream, blue becomes lilac.

Blue Motoros?

Erythristic
Black pigment is converted to red.

The visa-versa of the Black-barred midas becoming the red midas? I could be way off here, but is an interesting thought.

Flavistic
Golden mutation. The overall effect is that of an pale animal photographed in sepia; all colours seem converted to shades of brown or golden-brown.

Golden Gars.. ?

Hypermelanistic
Having excessive black and/or brown pigment (usually just referred to as melanistic)..

I have seen Motoro variants that are EXTREMELY black in Coloration.

Hypomelanistic
Having less black and/or brown colour than normal. These animals still have some pigment and may simply look "faded".

I have seen Motoro variants that are EXTREMELY less colored and less spotted then others. (I mean no black rings around the spots.. tiny orange dots.)

Leucistic
Similar to albino; white, but having dark eyes, some pigmented skin and often having "ghost markings" visible in certain light.

Can we say.. Pink Convict, Pink Gourami, etc, etc..

Maltesing
Another term for dilution of black into blue.

Blue Motoro again? Who knows..

Mosaicism
Abnormal black patches of skin cells due to cell mutations in the embryo.

I have seen this in a few stingray variants.. awkward black splotches on some unknown species of rays.

Nigrism
Black markings merge into black areas.

You see this happen all the time in Motoro variants from Peru.

Pseudomelanism
Combination of abundism and nigrism i.e. prolific markings coalesce to hid the background colour.

Again.. Un-identified Stingray species out of Peru often will have these characteristics.. No wonder it is so hard to identify them.

Rufism
Affects the depth of the red pigment turning it from yellow-orange into deep orange-red.

Red Devils.. Midas.. Ring a bell?

True Albino
Totally lacking in pigment - white fur and skin, no markings, blue or pink eyes.

Ugly, but often seen.. 'Rainbow Sharks' anyone? Albino Oscars, maybe?



Ok I will shut up now.. Got you thinkin, didn't I?

 

[Oddball]

This is Snowy. He's a juvie leucistic australian lungfish currently residing at the Ceratodus hatchery. He can be yours for the meager sum of $100,000.00. Buy 2 and save on combined shipping.

 

[Vitaliy]

I am not saying this as a racist thing or anything but at St Johns University Queens Campus, they have a black albino guy walking around!

 

[Filthy Sanchez]

None of those fish are albino filthysanchez, sorry

The cichlid is, the piranha someone claimed was (I personally think he got ripped off) as for the hammerhead it's gold not albino, just a unique color morph. I do have a pick of an albino Wright whale cub, and it's mother (taken from a helicopter by M. C. Scholl), and an albino tiger barb...

 

[ewurm]

Largemouth Bass. I saw a pic of a leucistic? Bass that was neon orange. That fish was awesome.

 

[geno1999]

albino redtail cat

 

[Daniel Machado]

I'd like to see an albino Arapaima...

Some albino and lutino non-fish pics:

Albino brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira):

Lutino Amazona aestiva:

And an albino BGK:

Best regards.

Daniel.

 

[Ripdevil]

albino deer if hunted and killed is very bad luck, hunters stay away from them. the supposed albino pbass looked more like a snook then anything and the piranha was a caribe. i have a small midas, i got it from petsmart, but there is something up with it, it has a very platinum look to it, but kinda a platinum/albino look. i have had many midas in the past and know about the color changes and everything but this thing is diff, i need to get pics up asap.

 

[amazonfishman]

well since this thread is moving again... leucistic RTC and TSN. I think it would be sweet to see a leucistic planiceps or aba aba knifefish, peacock bass would be cool to either leucistic or platinum or even albino for that matter ~Trent