This handsome fellow is Marshmallow, whom I met yesterday at the SeaLife aquarium in Sydney. Australian lungfish are wild—they can survive out of the water for several days, live for over a century, and fossil records show that they have remained virtually unchanged for 100 million years!
Although submitted for the enjoyment of the leucism channel, Marshmallow actually started out as a regular-degular grey-coloured lungfish like all his lungfish friends. But when he was about 5 years old, he started to lighten in colour, first to yellow and then eventually to the pinkish-white you see today. He has been checked over and is totally healthy, just pale.
His favourite food is bloodworms, and his favourite activity seems to be sitting at the bottom of the tank so he can stare back at all the humans that come to look at him.
Thank you so, so, so much for telling me all about Marshmallow. How lovely to meet a distant cousin and immediately like him so much!
