I have a tank of female AOCs (F1s from Simeon Bonev), and they’ve been steadily getting bigger and bigger. They’re on a lower rack so I really haven’t spent much time looking closely at these fish. Yesterday I was cleaning a tank or something and was looking at the entire “school” of fish collectively during a brighter part of the afternoon, which is probably why I finally saw this. I noticed as one fish turned that she had RED eyes. In other words, she’s an albino. I don’t know why I was so surprised, I guess I wasn’t expecting it. The only albino out of maybe 40 females.
I checked with Simeon and he said yes, there was an albino used in this cross several generations ago. My first thought was, another line of AOCs! My second thought was, I don’t have any tank space! I have a line of albino AOCs and I could pull one of those males out as a breeder for this fish. Very similar. I haven’t seen an albino male from this line yet, but that’s another option.
And a completely gratuitous favorite male guppy of mine.
Save your tank space. Maintain the albino trait as one of several autosomals within your existing line. Think of as maintaining a combined line of grey / blond / albino. No reason to segregate it out unless you wish…
Good idea. Then it’s still around if I need it, and I don’t need another tank.