Xanthic Jaguars

[Fishenvy]

Xanthic generally have black/darker colored eyes while albinos will have either red, pink or blue eyes.
With these gold jags I would say they are most likely leucistic, meaning that they keep the natural eye coloration and are born a regular color but over time will either lose part or all of its natural overcoat color. What I mean by over coat color is that not all animals have just a single color coat. Take bullfrogs for example, bullfrogs are green with dark green spots. Now we all know that to make the color green you first need to combine the colors blue and yellow together. These blue and yellow colors are the undercoat color and the overcoat color respectively. When you see a leucistic bullfrog it's color is going to be a bright sapphire blue in color and the reason behind this is because of the leucism Gene preventing the yellow over coat colors from working. In the gold jags case I believe it is just like the bullfrog's except with the undercoat and overcoat colors switched around. So instead of the Jag turning blue it turns bright yellow/gold.

Another way to think about it is that leucism is "almost" exactly like albinism. Albinism prevents all pigment from forming while leucism only prevents part of the pigment from forming.

Based on the video I seen. The eyes look fairly bright. This would indicate that the fish arent the xanthic?

I was willing to pay the price I agreed because of how rare they are.

Is this just a gold pair? That could possibly be 2 males?

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Based on the video I seen. The eyes look fairly bright. This would indicate that the fish arent the xanthic?

I was willing to pay the price I agreed because of how rare they are.

Is this just a gold pair? That could possibly be 2 males?

I believe they are just regular gold jags. It looks like ya have a possible male and female pair but I'm not the best at sexing jags.

 

[Rocksor]

I was planning to give them a 120 fatboy. That's the biggest I can go where I live atm.

Would that be sufficient space given that they are 10"m

How long is the tank? A longer tank is preferable since you have to divide the space between the two.

 

[ChrisRoundsCichlids]

They were my pair... Ive had many gold jags and these were not. This was an xanthic jag pair. I did end up getting the female to pair lay for a red dovii while I deceided to seperate them for awhile and try to introduce later on.

 

[ChrisRoundsCichlids]

Plz keep in mind the images from the op were not the best.

 

[ChrisRoundsCichlids]

Neither are my pictures tho since I dont use tank lights in my fish room

 

[ChrisRoundsCichlids]

Before with tank light ?

 

[ChrisRoundsCichlids]

Gold jags from my understanding have a much more "gold look" not near as bright yellow. Earlier in the thread someone brought up eye color that may play a factor which i dont think is true. Ive had f1 xanthic jags i bred for years from Mo Devlin and offsprings eye color would vary drastically. Some having red eyes, while some orange, while some yellow and so on.