Um, they usually go from colorful to less colorful to white . . . I have a shubunkin that was gorgeous until it turned into a sarassa. Funny but only the black faded off the fish. I figure it took two or three years for that to happen, I have plenty of time for it to lose it's red and go completely white . . . like the other shub that was in that pond!
But I have hundreds of shub babies in the lily pond that need to be moved to the big pond for the winter. Maybe some of them will be pretty.