saw a Xanthic yellow lab today, are they common?

[Stratoquarius]

Xanthism I beleive is excess of yellow pigment but also absence of dark pigment? if not then thats what I mean lol.

anyway the fish had a bright yellow body above the lateral line, and pure white below. the fish had bright pink eyes and no black in its fin. very cool little guy, does anything know if these are common or not ?

 

[C L O W N K N I F E]

Sounds like an albino labidochromis caeruleus I believe they aren't common, nor uncommon

 

[spadoc79]

any pics?

 

[RD.]

If you saw it at a LFS in Calgary, it is 100% hybrid.

 

[Stratoquarius]

then howcome everyone seems to think my convict with red fins and an orange face from an LFS in calgary is 100% convict :S? this site can be confusing at times.

I´m pretty sure it was pure, cause in my african tank I´ve got one yellow lab with that perfect lab colour, and the face thats slightly pointing.
and then I have another with blue shine all over its body and a more mbuna like face. so its pretty obvious if a fish is a lab hybrid.

you may be right RD. but I looked at the fish and it had a pure lab look to it.

 

[RD.]

There have been hybrid labs here in AB for over a decade now, tons of them. One of the wholesale distributors in Calgary used to sell, and still may, L. caeruleus x M. estherae hybrids, basically a solid yellow lab with no black in the fins. I recently saw some similar "labs" here in town, with pink eyes. They are all hybrids.

I used to breed Labidochromis caeruleus "Lion's Cove", and actually bought the entire first spawn of F1's from the first group of wild caught yellow labs here in Western Canada back in 2004, from a guy in Medicine Hat who spent 6 months working for the late Stuart Grant at Malawi. The descendants of his fish, mine, and a guy here in town who had an amazing line bred strain (and who sold to stores in Calgary) can still be found in AB, but all of those solid yellow, red eye morphs, etc, are hybrids from Asia.