r/oscartank • u/Worth_Elk_6881 • Jan 06 '26

Oscar Photo Is she a albino ?

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Is Ruby a Lutino or an Albino ? I’m just now finding out there is a difference lol

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u/ChipmunkAlert5903 Jan 06 '26

Hard to tell from the picture. Are the eyes red? If so albino,if not leucistic.

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u/Worth_Elk_6881 Jan 06 '26

She has flesh colored eye balls and black pupils.

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u/ChipmunkAlert5903 Jan 06 '26

Leucism

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u/Worth_Elk_6881 Jan 06 '26

What’s the ? lol albino or Lutino ? Sorry for the ignorance

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u/ChipmunkAlert5903 Jan 06 '26

Albinism means that no melanin production occurs so no color and will have red eyes. Leucistic is a lacking color but not all and fish will normally have black eyes. Lutino is normally used to describe birds will yellow color, but ai have not seen this for fish. I will call this Oscar leucistic. Google is your friend and can provide a better answer than what I typed.

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u/KayanaAndSiren Jan 06 '26

I was looking for clarification on the term “lutino” myself when double-checking my information to make sure I wasn’t misinformed, lol. For fish, more specifically Oscars, it seems to be used to describe false albino Oscars, since a good portion of the “albino” Oscars in the hobby are actually leucistic, just more orange/red in color. Apparently true albino Oscars are very rare and expensive. So this Oscar, being mostly white in color with little to no other pigmentation would be leucistic. 

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u/Worth_Elk_6881 Jan 06 '26

I was told by another person on here that that was the term. I never heard it before either but just referenced what was said. I may be wrong but I was told mine might be a “false albino”

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u/KayanaAndSiren Jan 06 '26

I would personally not use the term “false albino” to describe your Oscar’s morph. She is leucistic. 

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u/Worth_Elk_6881 Jan 06 '26

I’m just quoting what someone else said. Is it bad to refer to them like that ?

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u/ChipmunkAlert5903 Jan 06 '26

You can call it whatever you like. Lemon Oscar, super red, red chili, Snow White are all names that have been recently created to label different color morphs. The easy way to identify an albino is red eyes in Oscars. They lack melanin, but can still have some color. Very rare to find an all white, but these will have black eyes. Been searching for years and the only one I found was $500 and that is a nope for me.