My First Bristlenose Spawn

[C8lyn]

I thought I'd make a new thread for this because my other thread was based on whether my female was gravid or just fat, so this is my celebration thread.

I want to share the good news that my bristlenose eggs hatched today. :clap:
I set up a small tank with some water taken from the main tank and transferred the cave over with the male and fry. I don't have a light on it but it sits next to the main tank and gets a little light from there and it will be fine during the day.
It doesn't look like I've lost any because there's HEAPS. Pretty good for a young couple :lol:

Daddy on the eggs

Happy Hatchday!

Day 2

All I've gotta do now is find somewhere for them all to go when they grow up! I just advertised on facebook today to my friends. :lol:

 

[bigbird]

congrats....dad.....well done and put up some photos later....sleep well...cheers jk :woohoo:

 

[Big-B]

Nicely done. :thumbup: Congrats on the babies.

 

[jimmywr]

nice :clap:babies

 

[Mooo]

Congrats on your spawn hatching, well done...

 

[MOO]

Ahhh a great thread to read first thing in the morning.

 

[Mooo]

Nice cave lol...work well don't they...They all look very healthy, I guesstimate about 129ish.

 

[Irene0100]

brilliant pics thanks

 

[C8lyn]

Thanks guys! I'm interested to see how many will be albino.

 

[Hypanaddict]

Great pics and congrats on your Bristlenose spawning :woohoo:
Good luck in raising your fry :thumbup:

 

[JoePlec]

Thanks guys! I'm interested to see how many will be albino.

Normally about 50/50

 

[Brengun]

They look gr8 C8 :clap:

 

[C8lyn]

Day 3

 

[Lornek8]

Thanks guys! I'm interested to see how many will be albino.

Albinoism is a recessive gene to the brown coloration. Thus unless there is albino genes in the father's bloodline, they should all be brown. Breed the brown babies together & you should then get some albino.

 

[C8lyn]

The mother is albino. Wouldn't that make some babies albino?

 

[Lornek8]

The mother is albino. Wouldn't that make some babies albino?

Not necessarily. This goes to Mendelian inheritance. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance"]Mendelian inheritance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/FileNA_Overview2_shorter.png" class="image" title="Image showing the structure of DNA."><img alt="Image showing the structure of DNA." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/DNA_Overview2_shorter.png/100px-DNA_Overview2_shorter.png"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/b/b8/DNA_Overview2_shorter.png/100px-DNA_Overview2_shorter.png[/ame]

 

[Mooo]

Ya can't tell what you will get...I have two longfins and their bubs aren't all longfins either..I got about 50/50 colour...mums a common lf and dads an albino lf...
Ya can tell the albinos from their eyes before they colour up..Take a look at my breeding log, might help you decipher who is who...

 

[C8lyn]

Day 4

 

[Irene0100]

doing well!
no of albinos will depend on dads genes, do you know what his parents were?
i have 2 brown long fins, the young are a small proportion of albino most with long fins but not all, the rest are brown , mostly long fin, but not all.

 

[C8lyn]

Day 5

Seeing patterns now :clap:

Wide shot with Daddy

Dad has grown a lot aswell during his parenting. I can see lots of hairs on his fins and he has twice as many bristles. He's a big boy now