Re: New guppy in gallery

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: All i have to say is I'm JEALOUS!!!!!  They're beautiful!  How many gens did you have to do to get them to that?  All i keep getting with my mixes is the 'typical' albinos and the other colors i'm breeding them to ::sigh:: no true mixing yet!

: But I won't give up after seeing this!!!

: Meridian


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: : : Very NICE!!  Now, can you get them to breed true?  

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: : Well, Clarissa, it really helped to have a stable true-breeding strain of blues to start out with. Then, after 2 generations of wildly mixed phenotypes, it was just a matter of line breeding blue albino brothers to albino sisters. Fortunately, I messed up...I mis-labeled a non-albino female & she was preggers before I caught it. I figured, oh well, let her have the fry & maybe something cool will turn up. Well, something cool did. Apparently, she held the true breeding blue gene, whereas NONE of the female albinos did. All her sons came out blue tuxes, which I interbred & some of those came out albinos, all of the males blue ones! A few of the following generation have reddish bodies, but I am gradually getting that trait bred out, though I'll persue this strain seperately. Now I am getting only blue albinos, however. Since albinism & bright blue color are apparently recessive traits, it made things a lot easier.

: : The side-effect of the blue is a virtual lack of yellow in the bodies of the male fish. Compare the unretouched image in the gallery to other male albinos to see what I mean.

: : Frankly, this was the easiest strain I've ever stabilized, taking only 6 generations to get the  basic color down, but I still need to work out those red  bodies. Other than that, so far they are true breeders for 3 generations now.

: : PEACE!
: : Mirra


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