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New MacMasteri Fry

snowb

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I'm just curious about fry color. I have some macmasteri fry that are around 4 weeks old and there is one that is a real dark gray and another that is a medium colored gray. The others are light grey. Why the color difference so early?
 

MacZ

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Fry colouration is camouflage colouration by default. Why the nuances: Frankly, nobody knows.
Wild guesses:
- If they all had the exact same colour they might stand out more from the background and so the whole group would be in danger of being spotted.
- Maybe the two are sick?
- Maybe it's genetic.
- Maybe...

You get the gist. Nobody will really know and to my knowledge nobody has put research into this.
 

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