How Common Are Blue White Fin Rainbow Sharks?

tomgofishfish · Oct 1, 2012

so the question is in the title realy,how common are blue white fin rainbow sharks? i would like to get hold of one but i have never seen one in stores before (i live in the uk). are they rare or have i just not been looking hard enough?

any help apreciated, cheers

thereverendturtle · Oct 1, 2012

Looks as though its a color variant of a common rainbow shark. Probably not very common.

tomgofishfish · Oct 2, 2012

yes for all intensive purposes this is nothing more than a rainbow shark colour morph, but is it rare? colour morphs in other fish are common place, if it is rare why should this be and would there be a way of getting hold of one other than phoning all the stores within a 50 mile radius lol

fish killa · Oct 2, 2012

aren't they man made to look like that

raptorrex · Oct 2, 2012

tomgofishfish said:
so the question is in the title realy,how common are blue white fin rainbow sharks? i would like to get hold of one but i have never seen one in stores before (i live in the uk). are they rare or have i just not been looking hard enough?

any help apreciated, cheers

I doubt you will see em often.
as someone has pointed out, they are a colour morph. so only happen sporadically.
if you try to breed from them, the gene line will soon collapse.

and no, tomgofishfish, they are natural.

tomgofishfish · Oct 2, 2012

yea i know they are natural that was fish killa who thaught they were man made i was the one that pointed out they are a colour morph

I think you have answered my question though raptorrex, i think i will have to go back to plan A and carry on scouring the shops for one lol

MBOU · Oct 2, 2012

Weird! Never seen or heard of the colour variations, certainly never seen them available!

I would assume that the fish has some kindof dilution gene :unsure:

same as that that dilutes black to blue on other species like cats and hamsters and such like. How curious! :good:

crazyforcordoras · Oct 2, 2012

The only reason they would turn blue is because if you look, they have blue iridescence on them. The dilution gene stops he blue from showing, of im correct.

MBOU · Oct 2, 2012

^^ That makes no real sense, blue (in the same way as grey and brown) is still a dilute form of black. The sheen doesnt much have anything to do with it.

All that fish is... effectively.. is a paler 'washed out' version of a rainbow shark. The intense colour of the rainbow shark is 'diluted'.