Blue Lobster

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#1 Post by **beebub2** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:18 pm

On a recent trip to Ballyvaughan, I stopped at Linnane's in New Quay for some grub. There's a fish shop beside the pub on the pier and so I took the kids to it to look at the lobsters while the food was being prepared. In the tank was a bright blue lobster. I've never seen anything like it. Photo is attached, but it doesn't even do it justice. It was bright blue. Amazing looking thing...

#2 Post by **The Austrian** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:01 pm

Quite a rare sight, only an estimated one in 2–5 million lobsters is blue. A genetic defect causes a blue lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein. The protein and a red carotenoid molecule known as astaxanthin combine to form a blue complex known as crustacyanin, giving the lobster its blue color.
You should buy it and sell it to an aquarium as it surely would be an attraction

#3 Post by **stevecrow74** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:31 pm

Yeah, not common but it does occur, read somewhere recently that 1 in 30 million are yellow!! Now that I would like to see..

#4 Post by **JOHN LYNCH** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:47 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiGsZX3qNCQ

#5 Post by **Shambo** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:01 pm

There was one caught in the swilly a week or two ago and was released again.

#6 Post by **chuckaroo** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:46 pm

plenty of reading online about all these 'mad' coloured lobsters...
heres a topic brought up here in SAI about an ALBINO lobster too: http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... 89#p258089
cool wee blue lobster there

#7 Post by **beebub2** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:49 pm

The Austrian wrote: You should buy it and sell it to an aquarium as it surely would be an attraction

Don't think it's for sale. It's in its own cage and there's a sign on the wall (done by a kid) calling it 'The famous Blue Lobster'.

#8 Post by k » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:27 pm

Seems to be a good few unusual ones out there, recent irish times article on it [url]
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... A.facebook[/url]

Think most of the Irish aquariums have a few different coloured ones

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#9 Post by **fishermanfinn** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:51 pm

Ive seen quite a few lobsters that colour not rare but not that common either if you get my drift lol it seems to depend where you fish for them maybe different types of ground????? also have seen them nearly bright purple some nearly orange and everything inbetween lol

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