What kind of angel do I have?

[smyke]

I bought this female angel couple years ago at LFS as "assorted angel" and just decided to find out what she realy is.
Please let me know what you think.

Here is the pic (another one in my avatar).

 

[Star_Rider]

leaning towards gold koi

 

[j_chicago]

:iagree:

 

[FtwayneFish]

yup

 

[SanguineApple]

Isn't the difference between a gold marble and a koi that the koi blushes and the marble does not?

 

[Star_Rider]

not all kois are blushers even so many only retain the 'blusher' until they get older.

key to koi is the orange, black spots and usually white.
I believe angels plus is trying to get a heavy orange angel Koi.

it is still P.Scalare.

 

[smyke]

well, I guess I have gold koi angel then. thanks

 

[PopPopsfish]

:thm::thm::thm::thm::thm:

We also agree it a gold koi

 

[Tolak]

Gold marble, heterozygous. No orange, more gold in the crown as a gold marble would show, nowhere near the black a koi would show, and no sign of any blush Fig. 5; http://theangelfishsociety.org/articles/norton/dr_norton(14).htm

Fig. 2; http://theangelfishsociety.org/articles/norton/dr_norton(12).htm

Koi angels are technically gold marble blushers, star_rider is correct that some do outgrow their blush. The only sure way to tell the genetics of an unknown angel is to cross it with one of known genetics.

Steve has had the 90%+ orange koi for a while now, he just doesn't have them that often. I picked up eight almost a year ago, nice breeders.

Check out his orange marble blushers; http://www.angelsplus.com/FishOrangeMarble.htm

These are the next hot thing in angels, I'm waiting for him to get some select ready, ship those babys to me.

 

[Star_Rider]

I was wondering about the orange in the dorsal fin.