How rare is a white convict with white bars?

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I had a spawn from my heavily marbled female and a lightly marbled male. Well most were pink and marbled. But there were a couple "white" ones that had some marbling too. Well I thought all would eventually get more color out of all of them but this main one didn't. It is white with white bars and no marbling. I just wanted to know how rare something like this is before I focus on it and grow it out because it is only about an inch right now. I will post pics later. Thanks
 
Sorry, the answer was in the statement - it's probably not all that rare due to frequency of convict breeding, but I'm just guessing. Maybe someone else can corroborate
 
crush329 said:
I had a spawn from my heavily marbled female and a lightly marbled male. Well most were pink and marbled. But there were a couple "white" ones that had some marbling too. Well I thought all would eventually get more color out of all of them but this main one didn't. It is white with white bars and no marbling. I just wanted to know how rare something like this is before I focus on it and grow it out because it is only about an inch right now. I will post pics later. Thanks
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I'm guessing the con is pink with white bars. If the con is white with white bars you won't be able to tell if there are any bars on the fish. I think I've seen this before and they occur naturally. Specially in pink female cons. A pic would be nice.


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japbart said:
I'm guessing the con is pink with white bars. If the con is white with white bars you won't be able to tell if there are any bars on the fish. I think I've seen this before and they occur naturally. Specially in pink female cons. A pic would be nice.


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I'll get a pic later. I know everything under the sun has been done with convicts and I'm not arging that it hasn't been done. I really was just trying to see how many people have ever seen them or has seen a batch of them in their lfs. That's why I asked how rare they are. Sorry I didn't post the pic at the beginning of the thread.
 
crush329 said:
I'll get a pic later. I know everything under the sun has been done with convicts and I'm not arging that it hasn't been done. I really was just trying to see how many people have ever seen them or has seen a batch of them in their lfs. That's why I asked how rare they are. Sorry I didn't post the pic at the beginning of the thread.
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They're not that rare but they're not common either.


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japbart said:
They're not that rare but they're not common either.


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Ok. Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for. It just threw me off to not see any marble but display solid bars. Its at a friends house and I just saw it yesterday and was amazed. I was also wondering how rare are albino convicts because it seems the only thing this one is missing is the red eyes?
 
crush329 said:
Ok. Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for. It just threw me off to not see any marble but display solid bars. Its at a friends house and I just saw it yesterday and was amazed. I was also wondering how rare are albino convicts because it seems the only thing this one is missing is the red eyes?
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I've been keeping fish since I was 12 and I've never seen an albino convict (I'm 22 now).


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