Alan Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Would be interested to know if any other breeders have had this. Albino bristle nose eggs are a lot smaller, and the fry very small when compared to "normal" bristle nose cat fish. This is not a phenomonem I have noted with Albinoes of other species. Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilby junior Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Hey Alan, Personally, I haven't noticed any of this difference with my Albino bristlenose, though I do have to admit that I had never even bothered to take any note of the egg size. How much of a difference in size are you finding in the Albino fry in comparison to "normal" bristlenose fry? Michael. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xinguinsis Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Hi Alan, I had this for the first few spawns definitely ,accompanied with very low hatch rates and a lot of deformities.It did seem to pass though.It might be that we're trying to power grow and spawn them a bit to early as a guess.I was spawning mine at six to seven months pretty young. Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted July 10, 2005 Author Share Posted July 10, 2005 These fish are over a year old, but it is is thier first few spawns. A few bent tails as well. That might be a thing we will have to watch with the stocks we have here. I thought it might be just these fish but obviously not. Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrseby Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Hi Guys my 2c worth please Just a thought of something i will be doing in the very near future (we need to out-cross the varietiies... a term calls hybrid-vigor to strengthen back the strains.) I currently have a number of male albinos with femal L/F variety I hope to do a couple of things with this out-cross The 2 main projects i have for doing this is 1- strengthen the the L/F variety 2- produce L/F albino I will keep records and see what i come up with In Austrailia we have lots of inbreeding with most our fish so its probably time we started to be a little more scientific and pro-active in our fish breeding in general !!! I think the fact that these fish have been crossed back so many times ..(they may have all originated from 1 single albino parent ?) is more the reason we get the deformaties in such a large % . I don't believe that the albinism is cause for the deformities !!!!! So crossing back a couple of time with normal varieties or of diff genetic background will fix the deformaties dramatically. This will also produce better bigger and easier to care for fish !!! NOW THE ONLY CATCH IS THIS !!! How do we know if any of the so called B/nose are of the same species/rivers etc hahahah had to throw that one in Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted July 13, 2005 Author Share Posted July 13, 2005 LOL !!! Good on ya Mrseby I agree with everything said I am currently setting up some albino females with a normal male. Taking a punt that they are the same species/variety. (will soon find out). Hoping to put a bit of spread into the gene pool. Will take a couple of years, but we need to take steps now if we are going to strengthen the blood lines before we end up with a heap of cripled fish. Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenomena Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 Hi, My female albino just spawned a few days ago. The eggs don't look smaller than normal BN. ATM I have split fry from male albino and female normal that I intend to keep. My intention is to produce albino from these splits. It's still a long way to go and by the time the albino price may be as low as normal. But I don't care... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TropheusQueen Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 Have never understood this craze for pink bristlies- but to each their own . They breed just as avidly as the brown - it won't take two years for the price to drop as they are everywhere . Unfortunately there are not alot of breeders in the hobby that take care with sourcing bloodlines . Deformities are bound to occur. Great to see that some are taking their breeding programs a responsible step forward. Cheers Aline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormboy Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Mrseby and Alan, Let us know how you both go with the crossing back of the splits, it will be interesting to know if we do have similar enough species to maintain the albino gene through this means. Im interested in doing a similar thing as I have a couple of juvies growing out at the moment which should be ready in maybe 4-5 months. Im also very pleased to see somebody proactively strengthening a new(ish) strain of fish in Aus, particularly as we have seen in the past the the problems that negligence in this area can cause. -worm- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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