Albino Angelfish of Many Colors



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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 p ...

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