Show off your fish with abnormal colorations/patterns!

[gary faulkner]

Trying with not much luck. Was able to place in my pics on RC but it is too large and can't figure how to resize to 800X800

 

[Luiz Rocha]

My butterfly:

Nice butterfly, this one is a hybrid between Chaetodon punctatofasciatus and C. pelewensis. Relatively common where those two species co-occur.

 

[lebreef]

Not my fish, but check out this aberrant flame!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/5302901954/" title="flame aberrant by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5169/5302901954_9282bf2e71.jpg" width="450" height="430" alt="flame aberrant" /></a>

Just showed up at b-box in Japan.

 

[29reef]

I'm more interested in knowing what fish is in the background of that photo!

 

[LemonLemon]

its probably a picture of a peppermint angel on the lid of the pail. haha

 

[29reef]

That's what I figured, just wanted to make sure...

 

[copps]

A few of mine... starting with yellow and white... four of these five changed back to normal color over time...

Copps

 

[jasonw52]

Copps - love the angels!

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Nice Copps, which ones didn't change back to normal?

 

[copps]

Thanks guys... Luiz the first fish, although its changed a bit, but kept its unusual yellow color... this is a Townsend's angel from Florida, but is as yellow as your queen angels from Brazil... I need to get shots of him now to see... this was him after being in QT and getting phased into the group in one of my displays...

This guys changed back to normal too... an aberrant Potter's I got with no black! It's changed to normal...

Luiz in this shot you could see the yellow tang from my second shot above... you could see the yellow filling in in this shot... the fish is now a normal yellow tang...

This is the flame wrasse morphing back... went back to normal!

And the blue angel... went from all white and yellow to mottled as in this photo... now it's nearly an adult... and normal...

I am sending you some vials next week Luiz!

Copps

 

[copps]

Hey Tim, I received this exact fish... the photo you posted was taken by the collector in Papua New Guinea... this was the fish weeks later when I received it...

And here is my little hybrid when I received it (I got the dorsal fully healed with no scarring)... fortunately hybrids DO NOT revert back! I have updated shots of this not so little guy I'll show next week...

Copps

 

[Cultivatedcoral]

Kind of stinks when you paid very good money I am sure and they end up with normal coloring.

Nick

Thanks guys... Luiz the first fish, although its changed a bit, but kept its unusual yellow color... this is a Townsend's angel from Florida, but is as yellow as your queen angels from Brazil... I need to get shots of him now to see... this was him after being in QT and getting phased into the group in one of my displays...

This guys changed back to normal too... an aberrant Potter's I got with no black! It's changed to normal...

Luiz in this shot you could see the yellow tang from my second shot above... you could see the yellow filling in in this shot... the fish is now a normal yellow tang...

This is the flame wrasse morphing back... went back to normal!

And the blue angel... went from all white and yellow to mottled as in this photo... now it's nearly an adult... and normal...

I am sending you some vials next week Luiz!

Copps

 

[John Dawe]

Copp's fish

Copp's fish

Anyone notice the Achilles X Gold Rim in Copps tank? (Besides me)

 

[copps]

Kind of stinks when you paid very good money I am sure and they end up with normal coloring.

Nick

It is what it is... It's always neat documenting these changes as it amazes many people, including ichthyologists. Many of these morphs are well documented yet only in the wild and have not been tracked over time... kind of neat when I could contribute to this knowledge base from my basement in Virginia... I do have a number of morphs that have remained the same...

Anyone notice the Achilles X Gold Rim in Copps tank? (Besides me)

Good eye Johnny Boy!

Copps

 

[Luiz Rocha]

It is what it is... It's always neat documenting these changes as it amazes many people, including ichthyologists. Many of these morphs are well documented yet only in the wild and have not been tracked over time... kind of neat when I could contribute to this knowledge base from my basement in Virginia... I do have a number of morphs that have remained the same...

Absolutely right Copps. Actually, morphs changing back sometimes is even more interesting for us ichthyologists than those that remain the same. I read some reports of koi-like H. ciliaris from St. Paul's Rocks reverting back to normal after a few months in Japanese tanks, can you confirm that?

 

[John Dawe]

lau-wiliwili-nukunuku-‘oi‘oi

lau-wiliwili-nukunuku-"˜oi"˜oi

aka Forcipiger longirostris, is another great example of a dark black or brown fish going back to yellow in a tank. They use to think they were two different fish. A collector by the name of John Oneill had a dark on in a tank and it turned yellow, he told Jack Randall who asked what he did with the fish, he tossed it back. I have only seen one dark one for sale in a LFS, would have liked to have had that fish and see the change but it had a lot of 'white dots' on it.

 

[Cahooligan]

i came across 4 more Zebrasoma variants:

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[Chelsey]

I've got a pretty big aberration collection posted in a facebook album, but since I hijacked most of the pics from RC and just around the net in general I don't know if I can post them here, especially since I can't remember WHO I snagged the pics from

 

[ENTMogul]

I would love to come across a Zebrasoma variant. I love the yellow with the black line down the middle.

Any Conspic hybrids out there?

 

[auem]

i have seen a picture of conspic-butterfly hybrid somewhere...can't find the picture though..