One of my first fish I ever got was a chocolate albino pleco, like this one:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p76/Skiboy-Photo/simbawillieandron006r.jpg
It grew to about 14" and lived to 13 years old, before passing away from a bad case of natural causes. If that fish could have talked, it could have told you some stories.
I'd always kind of wanted another, because I'd gotten so attached to the one I had, and while I used to see them everywhere around the time I got my original one, I haven't seen them in years.
I stopped by a favorite LFS today, and guess who was there? One of my old chocolate albino friends, a little baby of 2" long. Of course I snapped the little thing right up.
I know how to take care of them, obviously, but what actually ARE they? A leucistic morph of something else? Their own separate species? I've always wondered.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p76/Skiboy-Photo/simbawillieandron006r.jpg
It grew to about 14" and lived to 13 years old, before passing away from a bad case of natural causes. If that fish could have talked, it could have told you some stories.
I'd always kind of wanted another, because I'd gotten so attached to the one I had, and while I used to see them everywhere around the time I got my original one, I haven't seen them in years.
I stopped by a favorite LFS today, and guess who was there? One of my old chocolate albino friends, a little baby of 2" long. Of course I snapped the little thing right up.
I know how to take care of them, obviously, but what actually ARE they? A leucistic morph of something else? Their own separate species? I've always wondered.