How rare is a white convict with white bars?

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darth pike said:
Reminds me of a platinum HRP, but with the convict bars. Can't say I've seen anything quite like it before ... it will be interesting to see if the bars fade with time or not.

Sadly a lot of people have been crossing HRP's with convicts to try and get marbled hrp's and platinum convicts ... a small possibility that your parents were part of someone's attempt at that. Not likely, but a possibility. Will be interesting to see what it does as it grows.
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Thank you for your input. Yeah I'm just used to the regular convicts so this took me by surprise. I didn't even think of the HRP's getting mixed within the genes. Yes it is still young so I guess it might get a little more color but most of its siblings looked like the parents. There actually was a few white ones but the others had the black marbling patterns on them.
 
I've never seen platinum HRP babies in person, since that morph doesn't do much for me. I'd be curious if someone that has bred them successfully before can pipe up if the young have bars that fade into adulthood or not.
 
darth pike said:
I've never seen platinum HRP babies in person, since that morph doesn't do much for me. I'd be curious if someone that has bred them successfully before can pipe up if the young have bars that fade into adulthood or not.
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Yeah that's what i'm wondering too... Do they have a morphing process or do they gain and lose color with age? I just hope it don't change.
 
If the fish really is white as what is shown in the pics then that fish is indeed uncommon. But white stripes on pink cons is a very common occurance. With the inbreeding of cons going on I wouldnt be surprised if your fish has some leucistic hrp blood in them.


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japbart said:
If the fish really is white as what is shown in the pics then that fish is indeed uncommon. But white stripes on pink cons is a very common occurance. With the inbreeding of cons going on I wouldnt be surprised if your fish has some leucistic hrp blood in them.


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Ok. I wasn't even aware of white stripes being common... We learn something new everyday! Well thanks all because I got my answer. I will probably make another thread to show its progress and what I chose to breed it with.
 
crush329 said:
Ok. I wasn't even aware of white stripes being common... We learn something new everyday! Well thanks all because I got my answer. I will probably make another thread to show its progress and what I chose to breed it with.
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Please do. Where are you located btw? I'm interested in some marbled fry cause I do breed marbled cons as well and I wanna strengthen my line.


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