Unfortunately the only reason that this fish was yellow, was due to the low quality soybean & feather meal based commercial farm feed that it was on when I got him. Once placed on a high quality feed he quickly changed to orange & white, a common creamsicle. Still a nice fish, but a fish lacking any type of genetic provenance, and not yellow as I had purchased it as. I gave it away shortly after, and replaced it with a young male from a guy who imported his breeders from Rapps & Conkel.