first l144 spawn

[plecoboy88]

A few weeks ago i noticed the male guarding a clutch of eggs, but they where not in a cave so i can only assume the bred under bogwood?. Anyway the eggs hatched and i got about 12 fry which are now about 5mm. The only thing is there colouration, there not lemon but are a mixture between black and grey! I'm guessing bad genes maybe? anyone else experienced this?

 

[Ike]

Pics, Pics, Pics!

L144 is a somewhat controversial fish, you may not have what you think you do, can you post some pictures of the adults?

 

[plecoboy88]

I'll try and get a decent picture if I can, they like playing hide and seek during the day!

 

[plecoboy88]

these are from what i had on my phone

 

[Joby]

Congrats on the spawn :clap:

What females do you have in the tank? The male or the female could be carrying different colour morph genes.

 

[plecoboy88]

thanks!
heres the female

 

[AndyEllard]

I'm not sure if it's ust the photo but the female looks like a normal Albino Ancistrus (red eyes) and not a L144 (blue/black eyes).

 

[plecoboy88]

Your right about this female but there's a blue eyed one in the tank also, I'm just not sure which one he bred with...ill try and get a picture of the other female.

 

[tubbi]

Personally I would have kept the 144's in a tank of there own.

Can you post up some pics of the fry?

 

[plecoboy88]

Here are the fry. sorry bout the quality, can only use my phone

 

[AndyEllard]

These look like standard Brown Bristlenose Ancistrus, so I would say it was the Albino female that was the mother and that she carries the Brown gene.

 

[plecoboy88]

how come there's no yellow colouration? I'll keep them alone next time, lesson learnt! Lol

 

[tubbi]

I def think your 144 male bred with either a common bn or a normal albino that had the common gene in her, those fry look as common as they come, sorry.

 

[plecoboy88]

I don't mind about the fry as I wasnt intentionally breeding them, just need to sell them lol
Thanks for your help guys

 

[Lornek8]

The more I think about it the more its actually pretty interesting results.
In theory, the albino gene & L144 gene are recessive to the brown gene meaning if you cross a pure albino with a pure brown you get no albino fry but all the fry carry the albino gene. To get albino coloration you need a fish with pure albino (no brown) genes. Same goes for the L144. Thus if you cross an L144 colored fish with a abino fish you shouldn't have any fish carrying brown genes, yet brown fry came out. Interesting, need to think about this more.

 

[plecoboy88]

I'll have too see if there colours change in anyway as they grow