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Breeding albino and regular BN plecos

Started by Adam, September 29, 2006, 02:21:05 PM

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Adam

I just went to SP Merivale and picked up a WC Spotted BN Pleco (spotted = common?).

I also picked up 3 albino BN plecos.  After growing them out for a bit, what would be the result of breeding the common pleco and the albino pleco?  I believe that it's just a morphological gene, but would I get maybe half albino, half common, a mix, sterile fry, bla bla bla.

Adam
150 Gallon Mbuna: 2 M. baliodigma, 5 Ps. sp. "Deep Magunga", 3 L. caeruleus, 3 Ps. demasoni, 1 P. Spilotonus 'Albino Taiwan Reef', 2 C. afra "Cobue", 2 Ancistrus sp.-144, 5 Ps. Acei, 1 Albino Ancistrus spp. L-144, Various fry

20 Gallon Long Reef: 1 Gramma melacara, 1 Pseudocheilinus hexataenia, 2 Lysmata amboinensis, 2 Lysmata wurdemanni, snails, hermits, crabs, mushrooms, SPS, rare zoanthids, palythoas, ricordea, favites, cloves, acans, candycanes leathers

mseguin

I don't know the particular genetics of BN, but I think albinism is usually recessive, so assuming ur regular don't have the albino gene, your fry would most likely be regualr type, but a mix is possible.

Adam

150 Gallon Mbuna: 2 M. baliodigma, 5 Ps. sp. "Deep Magunga", 3 L. caeruleus, 3 Ps. demasoni, 1 P. Spilotonus 'Albino Taiwan Reef', 2 C. afra "Cobue", 2 Ancistrus sp.-144, 5 Ps. Acei, 1 Albino Ancistrus spp. L-144, Various fry

20 Gallon Long Reef: 1 Gramma melacara, 1 Pseudocheilinus hexataenia, 2 Lysmata amboinensis, 2 Lysmata wurdemanni, snails, hermits, crabs, mushrooms, SPS, rare zoanthids, palythoas, ricordea, favites, cloves, acans, candycanes leathers

ottawadiscus

Hi,

Today I got some babies from my albino bn male and regular long fin bn female (brown with yellow spots), 50% of babies are albino and other 50% are brown. Brown babies are really nice. It's hard to tell how many babies are long fin. 

Loyed
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