Hello monster fish keepers I was curious on the difference between phantom and platinum redtail catfish
Phantom and platinum redtail catfish
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Phantoms are man-made by allegedly flashing UV light at the eggs or fry. Cruelty, if you asked me. Produced in mass, hence cheap like $30-$50.
"Platinum" RTC can be natural mutation, as it used to be and they were exuberantly expensive then (many 1000's of $), or again a forced situation where "platinum" parents are bred for this purpose (such offspring are currently several hundred $), or could be some other way that I am not aware of. This is not the topic that's of interest to me, just some things I've heard.
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"Platinum" RTC can be natural mutation, as it used to be and they were exuberantly expensive then (many 1000's of $), or again a forced situation where "platinum" parents are bred for this purpose (such offspring are currently several hundred $), or could be some other way that I am not aware of. This is not the topic that's of interest to me, just some things I've heard.
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Cough cough “phantom” redtail Are you trying to say what I think you're trying to say? ;)
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Haven’t read the thread, but isn’t melanism included in the fins? Everything is black?
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Such a dramatic change in color. We believe this is 100% due to change in diet. Diet went from almost 100% swai Fillet’s ( was the cheapest fish we could find), to Salmon/Tilapia/ Tilapia stuffed with Hikari Massivore. The diet of swai clearly was free of pigment. We also noticed a bump in...
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Personally I never understood the whole craze of color mutations in RTC's. I've always loved how their natural body colors looked on em. Still tho not a bad color morph for this specie, lol definitely like it more then platinums.
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As far as I understand, a man-made assumption is not authentic. In a recent video of predatory fins, they have explained this. The pair that bred this color morph no longer had successful haches due to one male or female died. So they tried several attempts to rebreed this, but it was not successful. If this is man-made, there should be many babies on the market to buy. But there isn't.