Another albino barramundi : NQ Barra

Matt Flynn · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:35 pm Post subject: Another albino barramundi

Just sent in by Got One's Craig Grosvenor ... it's a Queensland fish. No other details as yet but I'm sure they'll come.

Must be something in the water down there. Maybe bleach? :lol:

troamaru · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

wow thats a crazy looking fish! I wonder if someone is pulling our legs lol?

robertnewland90 · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

Amazing.. Must be 1 in a million..

Davey D · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

he needs to get it out of the sun lol, poor sucker will need some aloe vera after that

SUSIE Q · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

Thankyou Craigy for sending in the pic. Must have something to do with the floods or coral bleaching, suggesting that the barra are coral feeders. Enough wine good night.

JewieQueen · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:42 am Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

wowza! That is AMAZING!

Niglet · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

thats pretty cool. a small one of them would look good in a tank people would pay big $ for one of them

gammo42 · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

If I am correct, I believe this is one of the Barramundi that escaped from a commercial fishing venture thanks to Cyclone Yasi. I am yet to catch one but have caught plenty of the "green eyes".

The fish were grown and fed in net containment's within Conn Creek from the Hinchinbrook area. Yasi destroyed the operation and heaps and heaps of Barra escaped. The farm fed Barra have green eyes as opposed to the normal pink. They still taste great though. It is a great debate over here as to how long it will take for the eyes to change - if they ever will. The fish are already starting to silver up.

I have heard rumors of the albino's but as I said have not personally laid eyes on one. Looking at the picture again it is definitely Hinchinbrook Island in the background. I caught two Barra last weekend that had disfiguring of the upper jaw, looked like injuries suffered from within the nets. They probably only survived thanks to being farm fed. One I caught was 65cm but had no conditioning - a bit like catching an old man brown trout - big head but no body!

Gammo

Turtle · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:49 pm Post subject: Re: Another albino barramundi

This was in the latest BBB magazine, just got it today in the mail. (Thanks NT News lol)
It was a pommy fella, fish went 85cm and he released it unharmed. If you look at pet barra on youtube you see some pretty crazy colours but I have no idea how they got that way, pretty interesting stuff.

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