Albino Barra

[Jim_Tait]

A fish biologist colleague just sent me this photo of an apparently albino barra caught while electro fishing a freshwater river in the Gulf of Carpentaria. I've seen them look pretty 'white' before in dirty coloured river systems but this one definiately looks albino and was paler than other fish caught oiut of the same system. Have any others seen albino barra in the wild?

Regards -Jim

[hardb8]

:o Awsome lookin fish Jim.Never seen or ever heard of one.It's unreal 8-)

[jackash]

That is awesome... shouldnt it have the pink eyes but? or maybe im wrong.... cool looking fish though.
Cheers
Jackash

[nuggstar]

;D WICKED ;D

[Matthias]

I've seen a pic of 70-80cm albino barra in NQ fish and boat a few years ago but it was not in colour. That looks awsome.

pete.

[Kendall249]

I once saw a photo of one and it looked very similar to the one in the photo above.

[BobbyJ123]

I saw 3 white barra in 2 minutes in a connecting channel off Coroboree in the NT. about 2 years ago. They ranged from about 40 cm to about 75 cm. The water was quite shallow and very warm, but we could not catch any on the lures.

[bdowdy]

:owow thats awesome has any body got any photos of any other albino fish as it would be an interesting read 8-) 8-) cheers bdowdy ;)

[setthehook]

top looking fish!! lucky he wasnt picked of by preditors when he was smaller!!

[aussienative]

Hey guys, sorry for bringing back a month old thread...

I was searching the net and stumbled across this amazing barra!

And i have some info for anyone that is interested. That barra has a rare form of albinism which is often refered to in the aquatic trade as "platinum" or "snow" which is HIGHLY sort after.

Other fish that have this form of albinism are SUPER RARE! and fetch a higher price than their normal brothers and sisters. One species in particular, The silver arowana(south american cousin of our saratoga) , with this albinism can demand $US50,000+.

Normal siver aro's sell for $US50.... in the US
In australia normal silver aro's go for $200-$800, so you can imagine the price of a platinum over here!

Anyways, Jim....I'm not saying that barra is worth thousands but if your mate ate that fish it was a pretty expensive dinner lol

Hopefully the pics below work and i can show you the difference between a normal silver and a "platinum" or "snow".


Normal-

[aussienative]

Platinum or snow

[aussienative]

Also here is another extremely rare barra, From somewhere in the US

[swano]

heres a sooty from faust a few years ago , make a good pet ;)
cheers swano

[scottym]

That sooty is unreall :o. I've never seen that bright orange before.

[zedjack33]

Another albino.....................a touch bigger


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[aussienative]

Thanks for all the new photo's guys! Amazing fish!!!

Swano, is that you in the photo? or is that a pic you found on the net?
If thats your pic, you must of been blown away by the colour of that thing! haha

If anyone has a pic of a weirdly coloured(Albino,colour morph etc) fish of ANY species can you please post it up, it would be great to see what wierd and wonderful variations are out there!

Cheers
Brendan

[richos]

wow never seen anything like it. hes done well avoiding the predators as a youngster

[Kendall249]

I saw the red sooty in F&B paper.

[bdowdy]

:)ther awesome photos great stuff keep em coming ive seen that sooty before in a mag isnt it awesome and that bigger barra and saratoga well :o :o there great .cheers bdowdy ;)

[Neil_c]

Sure is amazing what survives out there. Once saw a pure white Mullet about 50cm swimming in a large school below a bridge in Mackay, it sure must have led a charmed life......at least till then anyway ::)

The Fella holding the Orange Sooty is "Big George"
From memory one of couple that have been seen in Faust, Sooties that is ;D

Neil :)

[Sergio_kutz]

Yeh i've seen quite a few white Mullet once in a school up the tweed near murwillumbah (i think that's close enough to the spelling) There were about 3 or 4 white ones... about 10 or so 1/2 white and 1/2 normal coloured. They were in a huge school of at least a hundred... probably cloer to 2 hundred.

Serge

[eotbmg]

Those photos are unreal!!!!!
Its amazing what nature can throw around.
Didn't believe the sooty at first but hey anythings possible!!
Cheers
Ben

[griz066]

Cool pics 8-)

[Chuong]

I have seen an albino lungfish in Nth Pine Dam many years ago.

Here are some interesting jardini and a leucistic (normal coloured eyes) leicharti.

[Chuong]

jardini

[Chuong]

Have also heard of red leichatdi

[RayB]

Love the pics of the white barras. I've seen some dark ones that live in the shallows but never a white one.

cheers
Raymond

[swano]

Thanks for all the new photo's guys! Amazing fish!!!

Swano, is that you in the photo? or is that a pic you found on the net?
If thats your pic, you must of been blown away by the colour of that thing! haha

Cheers
Brendan

neil-c is correct thats george loudon holding the fish i took the piccy and then we released the fish to hopefully shock others the way it shocked us , it was surprising to see it in such good nick as it must be pretty hard to stalk prey when you look like a flare.
cheers swano

[mitch_05]

Never seen any albino fish but it would be great to land one!!