Rare Lemon Peel Angel

[AuroraDrvr]

Luiz, I do not think he is questioning the hybrid part, but rather the orange coloration.

I have come across knowledge people in the hobby that claim the bright orange/reddish coloration is a by-product of using Cyanide for collection. Hence my tongue-in-cheek post of the Lewis Structure for Cyanide above.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

The orange is simply within-species variation (or may even be the product of a wrong white balance in a digital camera). Some Lemon Peels are much more orange than others, depending on location, feeding, chemicals (as you mention), etc. Look at the variation in C. loricula, it's the same thing.

 

[rnscross]

do you just sequence ribosomal DNA to see which species is hybridised?

 

[pacislandaqua]

"orangepeels" are coming out of the marshalls. 90% of the lemonpeels from Marshall Islands are orange or much more orange than a normal looking yellow lemonpeel from say Christmas Island. That is a nice one. I had one not to long ago that looked like that.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

do you just sequence ribosomal DNA to see which species is hybridised?

No, we need two different DNA markers, one maternally inherited (any mitochondrial DNA marker) to tell who the "mother" is, and one bi-parentally inherited (usually any nuclear DNA marker) to tell who the "father" species is.

"orangepeels" are coming out of the marshalls. 90% of the lemonpeels from Marshall Islands are orange or much more orange than a normal looking yellow lemonpeel from say Christmas Island. That is a nice one. I had one not to long ago that looked like that.

Yes, as I said, geographical variation on the color, and flavissimus and vrolicki are known to hybridize at the Marshalls, so there you have it.

 

[Recty]

I got this little angel from the Marshalls and you can see the orange easily. The picture is a little dark, but that's a white bucket it is in so you can tell the white balance isnt way off, it's just not exposed quite as high as I would like so it looks a little gray.

Here you can see it in the tank, about 2-3 months later, still retaining the orange color.

 

[ScubaPrawn]

Beautiful.

 

[prop-frags]

I got this little angel from the Marshalls and you can see the orange easily. The picture is a little dark, but that's a white bucket it is in so you can tell the white balance isnt way off, it's just not exposed quite as high as I would like so it looks a little gray.

Here you can see it in the tank, about 2-3 months later, still retaining the orange color.

Now that's a little cutie! I think "Orange Peel" would be more fitting, lol. :lol:

 

[Sheol]

I wonder if I'd have to pay more for an "Orange Peel" than for an ordinary Lemonpeel? LOL
I also wonder not at all, if they come with all the negatives associated with C. flavissmus in general (munching your ENTIRE Reef, being hard to acclimate, etc.)
Whatever, its a beautiful fish!

Matthew

 

[flameangel88]

I wonder if I'd have to pay more for an "Orange Peel" than for an ordinary Lemonpeel? LOL

Matthew

If I remember right I paid $25.99 for the "orangepeel" about a year ago from BZA.

 

[Vili_Shark]

The deeper orange Lemon Peels are coming from Tahiti and not from Marshall.
The ones from Marshall's are nice, but the ones from Tahiti are nicer.

BZA was probably a Tahiti one, if it was Orange, as PAF imports quite a lot from Tahiti.

Some wholesellers list those Lemon Peels as "French Polynesia"

 

[CReyes350]

Any updates? I'd like an orange lemon peel but I'm told that the coloration will fade in about 6 months unless I feed food high in red pigment?