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Albino Angelfish of Many Colors

Books on angelfish indicate that albino angelfish are a weak strain.

My experience with them is quite different.  As long as they are outcrossed to
black eyed strains every few generations they are very prolific.
I have spent several years developing various color varieties as well.

By definition the albino angelfish had red eyes.  Most are also white, but as with other
kinds of fish, such as albino mollies, it is possible to have red eyed fish with colors present on the body
of the fish.  The first albino angelfish I obtained resulted from a strain of silver angels and as such
were white fish with whiter stripes instead of the black stripes on normal silver angels.

By crossing these into gold angels and then back crossing (brother x sister),
I obtained albino angels without the white stripes in the second generation.

Further crossing of these albino angels into a strain of marble angels and then backcrossing
produced  albino gold marble angels.  These fish have noticeable white spots
where black spots would normally occur in black eyed marble angels.  Crossing of these
albino gold marble pair angels with an albino recessive gold marble produced a 50/50 mixture
of gold marbles and albino gold marbles.  Crossing of these albino gold marbles with pure
gold angels produced marbled angels proving that they carried the marble genetics.

A strain of  albino blushing pearlscale angels was also developed by crossing
albino angels with blue blushing pearlscale angels and back crossing.

The albino gold marbles were later crossed to a koi pearlscale angel and after back crossing
the second generation angelfish that resulted were called  albino koi angels.  They carry the
extreme orange crowns from their koi ancestry and again the normal black spots from
the koi parents shows up as white spots notable on the body and fins of the fish shown.
The koi angel used carried the pearlscale genes and thus the fish shown is also pearlscale
although pearlscale does not show up well on blushing angels.

Crossing the albino angels into a strain of black pearlscale angels and backcrossing produced
a strain of  albino black pearlscale angels that showed considerable gray to black coloration
up the head of the fish to the upper fin.  The bodies of these albino black pearlscale angels (2)
also showed a gray coloration.  The small spots in these photos are fry.  These angels
proved to be good parents and raise their fry.  Also shown is a picture of a pair consisting of a
female black pearlscale and a male albino black pearlscale angel.

I am currently working with two strains of angels the blacks that produce albinos and
dark marble pearlscales