Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Rare colors of fish

I am considering a handful of albino CC in one of my ponds as my stocking nears; the repairs to front overflow pipe should be completed this week or next. I think the kids would get a kick out of catching them from time to time. As I googled albino catfish other albino and leucistic fish came up. I figured as many ponds as some on here have seen that oddly marked or rare colored fish have to come up occasionally. Anybody have pictures? My next question is why isn't anybody breeding them? Seems like we breed every other animal in its rare colors. The golden bass that came up in the search we very striking and I'm sure people would buy them. Look at the money people pay for weird colored carp.

Smaller/younger albino cats don't hold up against predation. I've had them mixed with other cats but have never seen one that made it to 3 or 4 pounds.

The hatcheries in Arkansas quit growing albino CC mainly due to predation by cormorants, and, as one hatchery person told me, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission required them to be in separate ponds several miles from any other commercial catfish pond, to prevent contaminating the gene pool with the albino traits. I have two in my pond, and so far they are surviving OK. They are the first ones to come up for pellets every day.
The only hatchery now growing the albino CC that I could find is Sugar Creek Hatchery in Lima, Ohio. He bought out one of the Lonoke, AR farms last albino CC stock last fall.