L144 cross brown BN?

Gem400

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One of my young L144 females has spawned with a young brown BN male (bought as temminickii), the fry have hatched today, unfortunately the male has kicked the fry out upon hatching so are now in a fry saver.

My question is what are the fry likely to turn out like? And yep, I will make sure in the future they can't spawn together again.

Cheers
Gem
 

scatz

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well as far as i'm aware, most L144's around at the mo, aren't true 144's anyway, but instead a hybrid bred from 144 and A. cirrhosus, so i dont think its a major sin that they have spawned.
not sure what to expect from them though, would be interesting to see if you get any brown BN with blue eyes
 

Lornek8

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Probably all brown BN. From my understanding, the commonly available L144 (as opossed to the "true" L144) are simply a color variation of A. cf. cirrhosus, the Common BN. Now whether the color variation came about due to cross breeding with the original L144 strain or a similar mutation found in A. cf. cirrhosus is unknown. As the L144 coloration is a form of albinosim, i'd expect the genes to behave similarly & thus result in all brown BNs.