creating albinos

[devder1]

not neccessarily fishy12 because I have been breeding a hybrid between an albino male peacock and a pink peacock and all of them have come out to become pink peacocks, even after 3 spawns and 100+ fry...

pink peacock = A A

a Aa aA

albino peaock = a Aa aA

these will all have the phenotype of regular pink because they all have the dominant normal pink gene so will express normal pink

 

[BRUNER247]

Google heavy metals n albino fish. Bunch of studies n such comes up! But one I was talking about are south American scientists ill try to find their names. I've read it several times.

 

[hydro4892]

ah ok devder1 thanks lol, i sound like an idiot now haha

 

[Freezekougra]

its all genes my friend

A- non Albino gene
a- albino gene

then your parents are

AA+Aa

you have
A A
A AA
a Aa

you have to do the punnet square for the parents genes n you get the results. So you will have a 50% chance of albino child in those parents genes

what bout dominant and recessive

 

[fishy12]

not neccessarily fishy12 because I have been breeding a hybrid between an albino male peacock and a pink peacock and all of them have come out to become pink peacocks, even after 3 spawns and 100+ fry...

Its all the ratio's. In fish there may be a lessend chance of albino's because there spawn size. we learned this in biology sopmore yr...

 

[fishy12]

what bout dominant and recessive

this is what im talking about dominat genes will out rule the recessive but if you get 2 parents with recessive genes your chances of albino's will greatly increase. I never said the spawn will produce albino's either just that they will have the gene. If they are breeding with a 2 dominate color genes the chance of 1 albino is greatly lowered

 

[fishy12]

pink peacock = A A

a Aa aA

albino peaock = a Aa aA

Idk how you got all those a's for the albino but I think you mean Aa+AA for the pink

 

[Toby_H]

I'm not sayn its not in the genes. This study found that higher heavy metals levels during the egg stage produces higher levels of albinos.these are studies from professionals not some hobbist in his backyard.copper can cause heavy metal levels it isn't toxic like mercury n such.I'm also not sayn I would expose my breeders, eggs, or fry to heavy metal if I can help it. I just found it interesting. They actually did field tests where high numbers of albinos occur in south American riverways.they took their findings to the labs n confirmed that heavy metal does increase the chance of albinos.

I don't believe this theory for one second... I'd be interested in seeing the article that describes this study and I'd be sure to read up on the 'professionals' performing the study... as it sounds like bogus science to me...

not neccessarily fishy12 because I have been breeding a hybrid between an albino male peacock and a pink peacock and all of them have come out to become pink peacocks, even after 3 spawns and 100+ fry...

Your results are exactly what mendelian genetics (displayed by the punnet square) suggests you will get... your offspring are all normal looking and het (heterogeneous) for albinism...



I'll do the google search suggested and check out what I find...

 

[BRUNER247]

Ok here's the bogus names n the bogus studies oh n the bogus ecological department
Marcelo de brito. N Erica caramaschi
Departamento de ecologica universidade federal do Rio de janeiro. N its not just this study there's been a lot!

 

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