blue rainbow trout

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WTF you should of caught it! That would've been dope!

Edit: Nevermind, was that at a hatchery display pond? because thats really the only place that you can see Blue and Golden Rainbow trout together, especially since Blue's normally die unless the hatchery seperates them from the other trout when their little and keeps them for display.
 
OMG that would have been amazing in a tank... beautiful looking trout
 
Positive comment. Want the blue trout. One fish two fish.
 
Very cool!

I'd never heard of blue Rainbows before, so I did some googling. I thought this was very interesting:

Blue Rainbow Trout are a mutation that occur in hatchery production of rainbow trout. So far, this rare genetic glitch has occurred only in rainbow and brown trout. To understand the rarity of Blue Rainbow Trout one hatchery recorded 30 rainbow trout were blue in a spawn of about four million eggs. One year, more blue trout might appear. Another year, fewer.

"They are typically separated early on from the other trout because they're weaker fish and unless they are set aside, during the first year the other fish usually eat them, or they succumb to the rigors of the hatchery's high-density environmental conditions."

Also Blue Rainbow Trout don't reproduce. Neither the males nor the females develop mature reproductive organs.

"We've been getting blue rainbow trout and blue brown trout for some 30 years or more, as long as I've been with the Commission," says Bill Kennedy, Bureau of Fisheries Training Officer. "Years ago there was a concerted effort to produce a line of blue trout. But Dr. James Wright, a Penn State geneticist, determined that something was wrong with them physiologically."

Wright identified them as genetic anomalies, or mutations. He determined that blue trout probably suffer from a thyroid deficiency. A fish's thyroid gland produces hormones that affect its coloring during all its life stages. Thus, the hormonal mix-up lets these fish form only the bluish pigment.

"Blue trout are extremely rare," Kennedy says, "and they are not something we can selectively breed. Hatcheries keep them as show fish."
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I found that information here: http://www.rainbowrun.net/troutinfo.htm

They would be kickass for a species only show tank.
 
I really wonder how much a hatchery would charge for 1, since apparently they get a few every single year.
 
That's awesome. I used to work at a trout hatchery and I've dealt with 10s of thousands of little trout, but I don't remember ever seeing a blue one
 
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