Marcel

Thanks Junkai, the marketing starts. The more albinos gets sold, the less fish gets taken out of the ocean. Here in South Africa, almost all clowns are wild caught.

I am happy to anounce the world sole distributor for albino ocellaris is Proaquatix in Vero Beach, Florida. For those reefers who are interested, please contact Eric from Proaquatix. In a few weeks, Proaquatix should receive the first stock.

I expected your question. I made a deal for the world distribution rights, except for South Africa. First release should take place around July 2010. Yes Junkai, these filtersocks are so cheap, I just throw them away. Ask a supplier for dairy equipment, they should have. They come in different sizes, so you have to see what would be good for you to use. Keep in touch Marcel

Hey Junkai, everything alright on your side? I would like to hijack your thread a bit. I had a few water quality issues and I build a prefilter with the use of common milkfilter socks. Here is the link in our forum in South Africa : DIY filtersock prefilter Cheers Marcel

Hi Junkai, howzit going? Looks good so far. What happen to the colour from the one? Do you have only one with this see through strain? Strange. What are the difficulties with the dottybacks? At which stage?

Definitely not. I reckon, they will look like the use to look before, after around 2 to 3 weeks I stopped astaxanthin enriched diet. I think it´s good, because you can play with their colour until you get the colour you like. Then you keep feeding here and there a bit cyclope eeze and they will stay like that. After a year, you decide to let them get back to the pale orange and after another year you boost them to this dark orange. I think, these fish will have many benefits. I prefer the pale orange, which is actually not that pale. Depending on the light. The brighter the light, the brighter there colour. I am glad, that I have tried this different diets.

Hi guys, here are some news from South Africa and the Albino clowns. We had last weekend the IMACSA 2009 in Cape Town. I was one of the lecturers at IMACSA. Marcel, that´s me, in between the living legends Julian Sprung and Anthony Calfo. F....k, I was so nervous. A speech in front of these guys and the other hobbyists, on top of it in english. Hectic, but I managed my part of IMACSA very well. I was told so many times! My albino clowns were shown to the public for the first time. I was thinking of the comments regarding posts we had in this thread, regarding pale colour, etc. I decided a week before IMACSA to feed a few albinos with an astaxanthin enriched diet. I think the result after just 7 days is remarkable. We all know that astaxanthin will boost orange and red, but the albinos were boosted to a maximum, with a minimum of astaxanthin. These pictures are not the best ones, better pictures taken with professional equipment will follow, including the announcement, who will be your GOOD HOPE ALBINO supplier in the states. These pictures will give you guys a roughly idea what they look like in real life. Nobody mentioned a dislike or something similar regarding the albinos. Around 3/4 of the people, including myself prefer the pale orange, many people, including Anthony Calfo and Julian Sprung like both colourations and many prefer the darker ones. Julian Sprung´s comment: They are cool! Anthony Calfo´s comment: They are magnificent! It was an awesome event and it was a pleasure to meet Anthony and Julian in person. Please, I would like to know what you guys think about there colours.

Just for you, I made two different colourations of albinos. Now you can decide. See my next post.

Junkai, the first time I read this here. You posted this very early here. Maybe I can write something similar about you, who knows. Maybe you got already something unique in your basement. You are clever enough. At least we are contact now. I would love to come down one day to visit you. When I still lived in Germany, I was going to set up a tank for solenostomus paradoxus. Captive bred and weaned solenostomus would be a real hit for this hobby. Keep my fingers cross for you.

These albino strain showed up, because of a gen defect from their parents. Albinism has got nothing to do with selective breeding. It was a mood of the nature, like any other albinos. The best part is from my point of view, these albinos are captive bred and all the following albinos will be also captive bred. If they claim a big space in the market, even better. That saves the environment. To be honest, I never liked an albino freshwater fish and I was not impressed, when I realised these ugly fish are albinos. You guys really had to see them, when they were a month old. UGLY. The funny part is, the older they get, the better they look. Everybody who saw these albinos in real life, went mad for these fish. The pictures don´t show their real beauty. The more light they get, the better they look. It is like the light goes right into their body and they seem to glow. And at the size of 4 cm they are really beautiful. Can´t wait to see them, when they 6 or 8 cm big. Problem is so far, I took all these pictures with my cellphone. A friend of mine want to come around with his macro lens, to take much better pictures. The IMACSA 2009 in Cape Town takes place at the 23rd of October and the Albinos will be shown to the public for the first time. By then we will see pictures in a good quality. Anthony Calfo and Julian Sprung are going to join this event. Can´t wait to hear their opinion. Be patient, I will keep you guys updated on this thread. Regarding pricing these fish. At this moment, there are only 46 albinos alive worldwide. That means, these albinos are the rarest marine fish in the world. The price should be extremely high. I don´t like all the ORA clowns, like the new and expensive Platinums. But for a first grade picasso pair, I would spend that amount of money. I guess, the majority here and all over the world likes the GEM tang from Mauritius and would be proud to have one swimming in your own tank. Me too, but the price, around 1200 to 1500 USD is for me much to high. The albinos should be worth much more than a gem tang. Depending on the demand and at the quantity I am able to breed, the price will be definitely high. I would say ORA scale! Which is in my opinion cheap for such a rare fish. On the other hand, if you would be me, you would try to make as much money as possible out of these albinos. I guess, nobody will blame me for trying to do so. But we will see, maybe a rich collector buys them all. Then they will be off the market, before they even could come on the market. A japanese business man bought a few years ago a koi fish for 1,5 million Euro. Why not, if you got the cash. But anyway, we will see how the albino story continues. Keep on posting. Thanks guys

I was told form lots of breeders around the world, bright light won´t be an issue or will harm them. Since a few weeks, I keep 5 of them in a reeftank with good lights on there. Not a problem. My concern was taking pictures with a flash, because then, the light will be coming from the side. I took a few pictures with a flash and they behaved themselves like any other fish. From what I have seen so far, I would think, not even the bright light from a metal high light will harm them or they will hide in a darker place in a tank with metal high lights. Before I am going to release an albino, I will keep them for a while under metal high lights to see how they react.

For all the people, who do not know MOFIB, here is the link. Albino thread on MOFIB

Hi Junkai, yes I found the way after somebody mentioned where to go. I thought, I will post some pics and see what the people over there think about the first albino marine fish. Seems to me, they keep quiet for now. Lots of views and the only reply was you. Come on guys, I am German and live in South Africa. So it is a good culture mix on this board. Questions? Comments? Junkai, the worlds first release will be in the united states early next year. Asia? Depending on a demand. No demand, no business. Chat soon

Hi to all, I am happy to introduce the first worldwide Albino Marine Fish to the Singapore Reefclub. A few of you guys might have read about it on MOFIB. It is the first albino strain in the world for marine fish. These are amphiprion ocellaris. Please let me know what you think. Thanks and regards Marcel