Again, Kolt,two very good posts explaining why they are rare.I for one, saw a yellow colored gar, myself in person, with my own eyes in the early 1990's in Atlanta, Georgia at a tropical fish wholesale business named Finn's. From what I understand they were bought out by the company that currently exists now in the same location. The company's name is Sunpet. The gar was in a 200 gallon aquarium and stayed there for quite some time. It was Bob, the business' owner's personal fish. He loved that fish. The reason was, it was one of a kind and irreplaceable I suppose. The fish met an early demise , when it managed to jump out of the aquarium , through a small opening in the top of said aquarium. Even back then, I was told it was not albino, it had black eyes and was xanthic. I got a crash course in genetics that spring morning when all I really wanted to do was go look at and buy some oddball fish in the back warehouse. It stuck with me, what I learned that morning, because I figured if I payed attention and explained back to him how it was caused and how rare that the fish was, then I was free to go look at fish. Kolt & Bro Wes have explained that process ten fold better than that man did 25 years ago in Atlanta. I understood what it was and why it was so rare way back then and I was ONLY a teenager at the time. I don't understand why you don't understand that it's so rare and cannot be genetically 're-engineered at will, Bro Fong? It's extremely obvious that the Arowanas that Bro Wes has imported from the wild in South America are, and have the same coloring as the gar shown in this thread and the one I saw in Atlanta. They are NOT going to turn into the normal colored fish that you believe that they will in the future, at any point. Just are not going to. So they aren't albino(because of the black eyes) , they aren't snow(not white in any way), not platinum(no shiny metallic sheen,at all), and they're not normal colored fish either(they are yellowish,even orangish to some extent, with a black spot or eye/occeli spot behind their operculum/gill cover). Right? That only leaves xanthic, non-man-made, extremely rare, one in a million arowana fish. I certainly cannot find but a couple, three,four or so of these fish pictured anywhere on the internet. It's xanthic, not gonna turn normal colored ever. Just admit you were wrong in your claims, because you can't back any of it up. It's ok, we all will still talk to you and consider your points made valid, if they do indeed have basis and proof in the future. The fishgeeks were right in their claim this time, and have the physical proof and reference materials to back their claim up. It's a wild-caught,not normal colored, not albino,snow,or platinum by any stretch of imagination. It's a non-man-made fish that cannot be genetically replicated at will that is completely new to the US and extremely rare elsewhere. Right? Am I correct in this statement of the absolute facts of these individual fish imported by Bro Wes? Just say yes, you know they and everyone else is correct.
No snow and platinum are adjectives used to represent genetic abnormalities. They are used because those names are marketable. The difference isn't about looks alone otherwise if I used a procedure to strip the color off an Aro I could call it a platinum or snow depending on whether it retained it's metallic shine or not. The fact that you ignore the genetics of the fish shows how little you actually know about them. It is there genetics not just a fishes color that makes them rare.
' but snow silver aros do not cost 100,000. Your defective snow came in the same box along with my king platinum short body gar.. you should reference this to the person who sold you your snow aro. And nice panda xbs still demand upwards of 1500 usd.
