the description of the fish (the title) is cut and pasted from the email from andy at bas. I emailed him asking him what they was as the answer i got off the bloke at bas was "i dont no" indeed the title would suggest albino, as to my knowledge, although very often are black eyed white varients of fish are sold and described as albino, a true albino is completely colorless with pink/red eyes. These fish did not have pink eyes, but black, normal color. With a full white, sometimes described as 'platinum' coloured body, but the third being all white with the top half, at the base of the dorsal fin being being an exact replication of a c.stuartii. One explaination may be the fish's parents comprised of one white stuartii and one normal stuartii giving some normal offspring, some pure white and some in between. Whatever the case i have spent all week trying to get information, find pictures with no luck, no information to my knowledge is available on any channa replicating these i have come across. It would lead me to believe that whatever variant of stewartii they are, they are quite rare.
Also davo86 i just looked at the links you posted made me remember i forgot to mention, striata and stuartii have different head shapes, the striatas being more elongated and the stuartii's being more like your average dwarf channa i.e. Looks a similar shape and size to the bleheri, assam and ornatipinnis i have. Which would be more in character of stuartii. I would say im 95% sure its not striata. I think im going to pick them up next saturday. I will take pictures then, if they ended up growing large then i have an 8x3x2 on the way so no problem. Oh yeah do you think £750 is too much to pay for the new 8x3x2 in 10mm glass or about right?
Cheers
David
