Hey...i have a recent offer on normal and albino kribensis...Has anyone had experience with the albino type...Im looking at breeding a pair...Can an albino krib and a common krib pair and eventually spawn??? How will the fry actually end up (a mixture)??? Do they require the same maintainence??? Thankyou for your responses...
P.S. if you got to pick, which one would you prefer (normal/albino)?
I have 2 albino males. They are the same species, care is identical, and they will pair and breed with normal-colored kribs, although creating pairs is a little more difficult. It's much easier to pair a regular male with an albino female, than a regular female with an albino male. The albino females, their red/purple sides show up much brighter than on the normal females, so most males are more attracted to them than to regular females. The albino males don't have anything "special" going for them, though, so it's a matter of time until a regular female just happens to fancy one.
I have a large tank of mixed kribs (the albino males, regulars of both sexes, and two other
pelvicachromis species)--nearly all of my females are totally uninterested in the albino guys. But I have one female that STRONGLY prefers them. She paired up with one of the albino males, they laid eggs several times, although they were infertile. So I pulled that male and put him with a known fertile female who had lost her mate--she's still shown absolutely no interest in him. But the female that had been with the albino male and spawned, VERY shortly thereafter started courting the second albino male. They've got a territory going and have been nest-building but haven't spawned for me yet. So that one particular female prefers albino males, but most of them don't seem to.
As far as genetics go, I've repeatedly *heard*, but not personally experienced, that albinism is acutally dominant in kribensis. Unusual if it's true, because it's recessive in most animals, but I hope to find out if this is the case eventually. It's hard to know what the outcome will be without knowing the genetic makeup of either fish.
