而“海洋水族馆的孔雀鱼”一直以来a title bestowed upon the Banggai Cardinalfish, I’ve long felt that the true guppy of the marine aquarium world, with its ubiquity of hobbyist breeding and ever-increasing diversity of aberrant, non-wild “designer forms”, is the Ocellaris & Percula Clownfish complex. If there was any remaining doubt, the appearance of a longfin / veil / butterfly mutation in a single Ocellaris Clownfish at Sustainable Aquatics seals the deal. NEMO是海洋水族馆世界的孔雀鱼。
It was only a matter of time before a longfin mutation would show up in Clownfish – think about how many other freshwater fish species have exactly this same mutation (Guppies, Swordtails, Mollies, Angelfish, Koi, Goldfish, Rams, White Clouds, Danios, Black Skirt Tetras, Bettas etc…there is even now alongfin Discus!). The list goes on and on (I have even seen a photo of what I can only call a longfin Steelhead rainbow trout; aquatic biologist and long-time angling friend Mike Durkalec knows the photo I’m talking about).
So this is hardlysurprisingat all; I suspect that this longfin mutation might be a fundamental genetic “mistep” not unlike albino. Some sort of damage or doubling of an allele during cell division might be all it takes, and those types of “errors” might occur with some regularity. I was once told that “albino” mutations will occur roughly once in every 200,000 to 300,000 fish…not sure where that claim actually comes from, but it illustrates the point I’m trying to make.
约翰·贝克（John Baker）和我是第一个找到白化病的人Astatotilapia latisfasciata,现在，鱼在贸易中可以避免。因此，Longfin像白化病一样，可能只是随机发生的事情，但偶尔会发生。一切都表明，如果繁殖足够的鱼，您将击中这些常见的piscine突变之一。就像可持续水上运动所做的那样，您只需要幸运并利用运气。
我现在将钱投入 - 特质可能部分占主导地位；鱼类中的大多数长鳍突变要么是部分主导或主导的遗传特征，后者是一种可持续的水上运动可能同意的情绪。
请注意 - 可持续水上运动目前正在为Longfin突变征求命名（见下文）。非正式版本的全文，通过Sustainable Aquatics Facebook Page，在这里共享记录：
A few months ago a member of our staff, marine biologist Matthew Jolley, noticed an odd fish being shredded by his brothers in one of our many grow out tanks. Based on Matt’s attentive care and quick action it was saved.
This animal had very long fins and was being attacked by his brothers because he was different. We isolated him and he started to heal; although you can see he is still showing scars, he continues healing today.
We paired him with a wild caught female Ocellaris, which went very well and they are well bonded now. Matthew Carberry’s idea is: if this long fin feature breeds true, then we want to start with as little in-breeding as possible. If this feature breeds true, we will cross the offspring in the near future with a wide variety of other designer clowns.
We have not found a name for him yet, but we call him longfin. We will be taking suggestions from anyone who has an idea for a great name. If this breeds true and we select your name, the winner will be rewarded with two fish before they are released!
两人已经开始产卵，我们期望在接下来的几周内，他们将成功地抚养巢穴。我们不知道Longfin特征是否会繁殖，尽管这种突变通常是主导的。我们已经看到了Longfin父母的25,000个后代，这是该功能的第一个体现。我们希望这种突变在野外无法生存。
我们将定期提供有关此开发项目的最新消息，并希望在接下来的几周内报告巢穴。希望在几个月后我们可以展示他们的后代，我们将发现这种特征是否繁殖！敬请关注！
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