What strain(s) are these angels?????? Pic!!

tropics007

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hello AC.

As some of you know, I had a thread a few days ago, where I was selling all my baby angels, and I have a person interested in buying all of them, and he wants a list of all the strains. I gave him a list of all of them , except for one.

Here is the deal. I had a 125g breding tank, and about a month after the angels were introduced, I got a spawn, but i didn't notice until they were free swimming. The 2 angels that parent raised them were both silver, so I thought that they were the parents, but now that they are around 5 months, and can clearly see what they look like, I do not believe that both the parents were silver.

All the babies have silver bodies, but some have stripes, some have spots, and some have both. I was wondering if anyone can help me out with guessing what strain(s) these angels are. Thanks so much AC.

If it helps, here were all the angels in the breeder tank at the time: 4 female silver, 2 female smokey leopard, 1 female zebra, 1 german blue male, 1 smokey leopard male, and 1 half black male. That is it. I was thinking that either the silver adults were 25-50% wild, or they have the ghost gene.

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What is it? Just a Guess I could be wrong

I would have to say S/+ or Sm/+ (Ghost or Smokey) although they do resemble Clowns a bit.

Stripeless / Zebra Locus
Stripeless and zebra share the same locus and are alleles of each other. Interestingly stripeless removes body stripes and zebra increases them.
S/+ The stripeless gene in single dose removes most of the stripes on the body of the silver angel. Sometimes the rear body stripe or a portion of it remains. When only a spot appears in front of the caudal fin it can be quite attractive. The body remains the standard silver gray. Striations remain in the fins.
S/+ is called a silver ghost.
S/+ will also affect the phenotype of other gene combinations when underlying stripes would be present.

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wow.. quite a strain you have.

short fin, stripless..seemss to have smokey/ghost tho at first glance I was leaning towards smokey blue.

I hate to say it but these may have been culled by many breeders due to the short dorsal/anal and ventrals.
 
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