Albino Bristlenoses
Albino Bristlenoses
Okay, so it isn't my Zebras.. But it's a start - the first plecos I've had spawn for me, having had various other fishies do to do chez moi.
I guess I don't mind cutting my pleco teeth on these guys while I patiently wait and hope for the Zebras to get the hint.
I guess I don't mind cutting my pleco teeth on these guys while I patiently wait and hope for the Zebras to get the hint.
It's not an illusion, it just looks like one.
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Good luck with them Pete, I had 3 huge albino males and 4 females which until recently lived with me, they have all gone to new homes now but at least one male has done the deed at last! My browns were too busy using the honeymoon suite to give them a chance! LMAO! Waiting for my veiltails to do the deed now!
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Albino is a pure breeding genetic, as long as they are the same SPECIES . I've never had a single albino, longfin or standard have a brown fry, until I crossed my longfins with a short fin. POOF, all I got were browns, about half and half, longfin and short. Obviously I did a rethink on that breeding program . I have two breeding groups of the fish I sent to you TTA, if you just have them together you'll never get a brown one again, I promise .
Albinism is a a recessive trait, meaning that any gene for color will mask it, even if it's present. If you breed two fish that each have a gene for it, you'll get 25% albino fry, 50% fry with a gene for each, and 25% with only genetics for solid brown. If you breed a colored fish with one albino gene to an albino, you should have 50% albino fry, although it has been noted that some males will "weed out" albino fry to skew this. All of the genetic marker work in the world doesn't explain what happens when you cross the species though, which is what I think happens more often than people realize. It's next to impossible to tell the difference between two albino ancistrus species, at least it has been for me. I just keep them separate .
Barbie
Albinism is a a recessive trait, meaning that any gene for color will mask it, even if it's present. If you breed two fish that each have a gene for it, you'll get 25% albino fry, 50% fry with a gene for each, and 25% with only genetics for solid brown. If you breed a colored fish with one albino gene to an albino, you should have 50% albino fry, although it has been noted that some males will "weed out" albino fry to skew this. All of the genetic marker work in the world doesn't explain what happens when you cross the species though, which is what I think happens more often than people realize. It's next to impossible to tell the difference between two albino ancistrus species, at least it has been for me. I just keep them separate .
Barbie
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Albinoism
Hi, just a little of what my albino BN do. I have 3 groups of 1M +2F in sepperate 10 gal. tanks and they breed regularly. Out of the 6 females (albino), I have 2 that will only through normals every time and they are in different tanks, so I know it is not the male. I believe the fry should be 100% het for albino and when bred back to an albino, should give albino fry. This is just an assumption as I have not done it myself.
Have a great day.
Mark
Have a great day.
Mark