ID me please - Golden Pirarucu

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Unungy;4958570; said:
Great information!.

I really appreciate your info. how alone ago did you see the white "false"? I've been told that last time they were able to get anything like this was 5 years ago from my source of course, obviously they were taken to Asia.

I wonder which of these are the most wanted, and rare of all.

white "false"
albino or platinum
Gold or Xanthic

I'm not into Arowanas myself but I do appreciate and exotic and rare fish when I see it. What do you mean by "Looks to be one of the "gold" colored pimas. Not bright gold or xanthic"

Saul
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Here is the "false" white arapaima I was referring too (photo credit to Xander)
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Some people would refer to this fish as platinum, but it does have some melanin so In my opinion it is really not a "true" platinum or leucistic fish, but it is probably as close as your going to get with pimas as I am yet to see a true platinum fish. It may truthfully be a "high shine" AKA negative albinism, I don't personally know for sure.

I say it "looks to be one of the gold colored pimas" because the base color is a brownish gold. Often "gold" is used to refer to a fish that is bright yellow/gold because it is xanthic (only able to produce yellow pigmentation). However the "gold" pimas aren't really xanthic, just a different shade of goldish brown color. In some pimas this is only a phase. Some people say a brownish color in pima is do to stress.
 
That is some amazing picture right there.
I wonder if they will stay a goldfish color? or will they change when older.

I know of some 4-5 of these going to Japan about 5 years ago... I wonder how they will look like now? I watch a documentary on them and immediately fell in love with them.

Huge guys
 
I'm still working on that part! I will need to build something special for them.

THEY will need an small swimming pool - if my cats falls into the water I am sure that they will be no cat in the future.


Saul
 
the "false" plat pima just turned out to be a light based one, so when it was in a standard coloured tank it seems really white, but when it went into a black pond it regained some of its natural black and red
 
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