Albino Yellow Labs

[Desert Bus]

A former roommate of mine has an almost full grown female in his Yellow Lab tank. I'm not sure if she's bred yet, but i'm sure she will eventually. He bought it at "Terry's Aquarium & Pet Center" in Hammond, Indiana, USA. I don't know how regularly they get them in, or if the one he has is a fluke.

 

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

Those are pretty interesting as I don't exactly like normal labidochromis caeruleus. Good find man, they look neat.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

My boss is friends with stuart grants son i'll see if we can find out if he got them wild or somthing

 

[DeepWater]

African update

"Well I lost everything. All my fish were basically killed by my ex and I have nothing now. I haven't been on in while and I will be on periodically. My fish were my life now it's time to rebuild from scratch again."

I'm confused. I thought your ex killed all your fish ???????

 

[mike dunagan]

I'm confused. I thought your ex killed all your fish ???????

What are you confused about? Yes that is what he said. No one has posted on this topic since October, well before she killed them all.

 

[DeepWater]

Ah Mike, you are correct. I'm not very message board savvy. I see now that the date is listed on the left. I saw the original post listed high up in the forum so I thought it was a new post. Bear with me I'm learning.

Anyways, I thought JHUTCH was able to salvage some of his fish. I was thinking of contacting him about cichlids because he is only about an hour south of me. Hopefully, he'll get back up & running.

 

[African_Fever]

The chances of them being wild caught are next to impossible. You might come across a single albino once in a lifetime, but a pair, let alone a group is nearly impossible. Plus there's not a lot of yellow labs at Lion's Cove (or anywhere else they're found for that matter), and they are a very difficult fish to catch. I spent two nights there, and the first day the four guys (working two at a time) caught maybe 70 fish - anywhere else, with many other fish you could catch hundreds in that time. Plus, the male doesn't even look like a yellow lab. His nose is way too blunt.

Almost every albino now available in the hobby is a hybrid of some form or another, and these yellows are no different.

 

[AlexG]

Hello,
I would breed them to normal L.yellow too to see if they are hybrids or not.

To correct my earlier statement I was told my breeders were F1 bred from wild parents.

Here this happened to a breeder too!
He got 25% Albinos in a batch from a wildcaught Copadichromis sp.
This can happen, like with convict cichlids.
So what I want to say is that it is NOT impossible, every wilcaught COULD have a albino gene, u can´t see that.
It is just allot of luck.
Ofcourse many albino malawi cichlids are hybrids especially Alulonocara.

 

[ICUFISH]

you post you do not know if they are F1 or not??? Everything I told you was true about them and all the other fish I sold you. I wish you were honest as I was with the whole sale. You still owe me 2500.00 and I will make sure you do not get any business if you do get it back up and running.