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Re: Brew's Homegrown albino alenquers
HI Hector,
I'll be holding onto the albinos for now... and I'll hold onto some wild types... but I can't keep them all.. between the last two spawns I'll have quite a few here.......and I am already a tad over stocked:D
tank of wild type...siblings of the 12 albinos... I put the albinos in a 30 gal for grow out and these are in 55 gal..soon to go to a 75 gal.
-al
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AL,
You definitely have a nice batch of babies from that pair over the last 2 spawns. Congrats and keep up the great work.
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Very cool stuff Al, I would be interested to know what an albino alenquer looks like as an adult. Will two albinos produce all albino offspring?
Mark O
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Thanks Scott!:)
Hi Mark,
yes... two albinos will produce albinos.. and only albinos. Its a recessive trait...so 2 fish can carry the genes as in my intermediates pair here... but not show them... when they breed... a percentage .... around 25% should be albino...50 % will be recessive for the trait..looking normal but carrying the albino genes.. and 25 % will look normal and carry no albino genes......
as for what they will look like... no idea:) my guess probably similar to a golden albino... Thats the fun part....not really knowing... maybe someone has a pic of an albino alenquer adult?
hth,
al
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well done Al, looks like you have a great pair there mate.
Rod:)
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Hi Al
Just wanted to know if you had any trouble with the albino fries finding their parents after leaving the cone, any adivce will be welcome as i have a batch of albinos ready to leave the cone,the parents are light coloured
Regards
Paulo
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heh..brew..your doing well with my fish..lol. remember me..when you get a whole pile..id go for some of the wild look regular ones..you can send them with my angels. right? : )
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LOL... April... If you want some... you got them.:)
Paulo,
yes I did have trouble, even with these dark parents...... These were really a pain to get to attach... I literally dropped the water level to the top of the fish and removed the sponge filter... I just did alot of water changes... If the parents are light colored then I would be sure all dark objects are away from them.. and be sure the back ground is light. ... it seemed to help. Good luck with your albinos!:)
-al
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Hey April,
Maybe when you are at Fedex picking mine up... you might be able to drop me off some nice canadian spotteds from that pair of yours;):D:D:D:D
-al
ps.. Thanks Dan!:)
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Hi Al,
Nice looking fry. But then you always do have nice looking fry. Congratulations!
I so need to come visit you. Its been a long time. We are going to Mystic this weekend. Any chance you will be around Sunday afternoon? I am wondering about the possibility of stopping by for a short visit on our way home...
peter
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Peter,
Its been ages since we have seen you guys! If you'll be in the area on Sunday and want to stop by... we'll be home.:) It'd be great seeing you, Maureen and Austin.
-al
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Al,
Mate those albino's look a little pale maybe you should send them downunder to get a tan ! LOL
mate awesome work they look fantastic,I currently have a pair of golden albino's going through the motions just hoping something comes of it. Al here's a challenge for you be the first to develop an albino heckel !
cheers
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Al here's a challenge for you be the first to develop an albino heckel !
Lol Darren...I'll leave it to you to guess if that might not be something that I would love to accomplish... :) Of course... breeding wild ones would have to come first.... but why settle for the clouds when you can reach for the stars my friend.;)
thanks!
al
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brewmaster15
Hi all,
About a month ago I posted some pics in another thread of a some albino alenquer fry in a spawn.. These were from a pair of alenquer albino intermediates.. I got these adults from Kenny's last Forrest shipment (thanks guys!!:)) and really didn't think I'd have much luck with the albinos..but being a wild discus nut...the F1 wild type alenquers drew me in like a bee to honey.:)
well I was pleasantly surprised that I got a small group of albino fry out of a spawn....I though there was maybe 8.....turns out 12 out of 100 were albino... Heres some updated photos...these guys are about 1 month old and doing great...
-al
It seems that your fry will be the right age around christmas to send out to your friends at simply? What do you think santa discus?