Chocolate Black

Non-wild alleles that interact to form this phenotype:

• Dark (D)

• Smokey (Sm)

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 A chocolate black has two alleles for dark (black) and two alleles for smokey.  The black pigment almost completely masks the expression of the smokey alleles. The genotype of a chocolate black is:

D/D – Sm/Sm.

 A hybrid chocolate black is similar in appearance.  If it contains an allele for gold marble or for marble, the underlying darker marbled pattern may be seen under a bright light.  Hybrid chocolate blacks will have one of these genotypes:

D/g – Sm/Sm
D/Gm – Sm/Sm
D/M – Sm/Sm

  Approved by The Angelfish Society Standards Committee on May 14, 2007.