Which of These Fish is Not Like the Others?

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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.

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And a completely gratuitous favorite male guppy of mine.

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2 thoughts on “Which of These Fish is Not Like the Others?

  1. 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…

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