Very nice Al !!!!!!!! We would interested in some intermediates.
Wow, beautiful. I remember the post well with the little albino's. Great to see u put ur skills to work on such a fine project.
Eileen
Very nice Al !!!!!!!! We would interested in some intermediates.
Andrew Richardson
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Al, big congrats and what an accomplishment in raising the albino frys to the form they are...it's definitely not an easy task raising albino juvies and it seemed so easy for you.
Forrest, you might have only gotten 5 albino juvies when you sent them to me; but what in the world was I thinking sending all these beauties out to the far east lol? Al, save me all the albino frys! (j/k on the word ALL)
Keep up this great work my friend! You're the man!
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Al, Big congrats yah. Please update us from time to time ! Keep up ur good work.
Best regards
Anthony Phan
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"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......"
Al thank you for expressing that fact so clearly. I do share your appreciation towards the wild side. I have the same strain, also from Forrest, and my pair just moved the wrigglers to the back of the cone. It is their second spawn, the first was also small in number. This one does look bigger.
Bob
Excellent Al! I'm glad those parents are producing some albino fry. Can you keep us informed of the status and appearance of those youngsters?
Walter
Walter
Wow Al:
Congrats! I've been watching ur Albino fry threads with much interest Learned a few things too like "How low can you go with the water level to get fry to attach!" ....Thanks for sharing! and I'm looking forward to seeing how big you can get these
take care,
Sandeep
Thanks everyone for the kind words..
Hey Ryan and Tina,
On the albinism.... The explanation I posted for the genetics is the text book case of a recessive gene.. whether its albinism or any other trait.. two heterozygous parents yield a predictable proportion of Offspring carrying the traits and expressing (25%), carrying but not expressing(50%), and not carrying at all (25%). Thats the rule usually...but there are variations.... I wonder if in your fish what you are seeing is something like this.. Sorry its people based..
Types of Albinism
http://www.albinism.org/publications..._albinism.htmlWhile most people with albinism have very light skin and hair, not all do. Oculocutaneous (pronounced Ock-you-low-kew-Tain-ee-us) albinism involves the eyes, hair, and skin. Ocular albinism involves primarily the eyes, while skin and hair may appear similar or slightly lighter than that of other family members.
Over the years researchers have used various systems for classifying oculocutaneous albinism. In general, these systems contrasted types of albinism having almost no pigmentation with types having slight pigmentation. In less pigmented types of albinism, hair and skin are cream-colored, and vision is often in the range of 20/200. In types with slight pigmentation, hair appears more yellow or red-tinged, and vision often corrects to 20/60. Early descriptions of albinism called these main categories of albinism "complete" and "incomplete" albinism. Later researchers used a test that involved plucking a hair root, and seeing if it would make pigment in a test tube. This test separated "ty-neg" (no pigment) from "ty-pos" (some pigment). Further research showed that this test was inconsistent, and added little information to the clinical exam.
Maybe those non-albinos you saw were along the lines of above...
hth,
al
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Hi all,
heres an update on my fry from this pair...so far all is going well.. I have two batches going... one is about 4 weeks and the other is 6-7 weeks...
hope you like them...I do.
-al
heres the newest batch 4 weeks...
albinos.. and wild type are separated..
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6 week albinos...
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wild type here at about 6-7 weeks...
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Holy smokes thats sooo cool.. so many babies with good shapes already at such young age.. way to go Al..