Black Arowana Adult Color

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Arowana1

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I acquainted with the fact that Black Arowanas are born with awesome colors and as they mature their colors change slowly into something similar to a Silver Arowana. My question is are any Arowana farms in South America or South East Asia attempting to breed adults that retain these colors?

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There is no way your going to get an adult black aro to keep the colors it's born with.
 
Just was wondering if any breeders were attempting to selectively breed black arowanas to retain their juvenille traits/colors.
 
koldsoup;3587700; said:
I recall badreverend having a black with really nice colors
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Maybe so but these are not the "awesome colors" it was born with as the OP described.
 
you have just as much chance of selective breeding humans to stay young looking forever

just like humans go throw puberty to reach adulthood black aros go throw the colour change
 
T1KARMANN;3587780; said:
you have just as much chance of selective breeding humans to stay young looking forever

just like humans go throw puberty to reach adulthood black aros go throw the colour change
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Well said.
 
Wow, I am rather shocked at the responses, I suppose heredity/evolution is not taught in school? Within any population there will be members that retain more of the dark colouring than others. If you had a suitably large group, and the time, you could create a black that was very dark...if you can take a common goldfish and turn it into one of those grotesque bubble-headed things, changing the colour of a fish isn't that much of a stretch.

However, in practical terms, blacks are hard to breed, so a selective breeding program isn't too likely.
 
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