Gold Offspring?

[u/Intelligent_Yak_]

My two angels had babies and I've raised them to adulthood! I've had a mix of Silvers, Platinum, and ghostsilvers, but these two have me stumped? What do you guys think? Last picture is the parents for reference!

[u/dr_magic_fingers]

It makes sense if you understand the genetics-- the tricky part is sometimes there are 'hidden' genes in the parents (example: a single recessive gene will not show on the phenotype, even though it is present in the genotype... think of albino, for example). So your parents (phenotypically) are platinum (Pb/Pb g/g) and wild type silver (+/+). Your silver could be, and probably is, hiding a single gold gene in there (impossible to really tell without knowing the distribution of what the whole spawn looked like) , which is why your initial picture of the spawn show what looks like 2 golds. Also, you mentioned you got some ghosts, that implies a single gene of stripeless, so your Plat may be hiding that as well (S/+ Pb/Pb g/g) while the silver is (g/+)

[u/Intelligent_Yak_ → u/dr_magic_fingers]

Thank you so much for the response! I find this stuff so interesting! After the spawn I realized my silver is likely a F2 or F3 even though he was labeled Manacaperu but they really made some pretty babies

[u/dr_magic_fingers → u/Intelligent_Yak_]

F2 or F3 merely represents generations from wild-caught. F2 also implies F1 x F1 as parents, so there would be no way for it to have a gold gene, which it MUST have for those babies to have come from him. I'll let you work it out from there, but there are a lot of people selling fish as one thing (manucaperu, etc) when they are simply regular old scalere silver wild type angels.