10 Normal Fry....

[MegTheFish]

So my female guppy that I've raised since birth was getting pretty big, and this morning she gave birth (finally, I've been waiting for months). I was hoping she would have them soon as I was having fry-withdrawls Plus I just had an older male die(old age) and a younger male die(unknown cause), so my tank was looking pretty bare. I found 9 of them this morning, and when I got home from work this afternoon I found 3 more, but unfortunalty when I was catching them with a cup I squished one Poor thing, I feel horrible.
So that brings me to 11 fry, 10 of them are normal, but one is lighter colored and has pinkish/redish eyes, so I'm assuming its albino? At first it looked like it had no eyes at all and that kind of freaked me out, you can barely see them! I didn't find him till later in the morning because he's practicly invisible in the tank.
Usually I'm only able to save 2 or 3 fry, so I was pretty excited when I caught 11 of them, I think since the big male is gone then they have a better chance of not getting eaten.
So I thought I'd share that with everybody, I thought it was pretty cool as the parents aren't albino, but I guess they could be carrying the gene or something? Oh, and are albinos rare of anything?

 

[phoenixfire]

congratulations!...and no not anymore...albinos are becoming more and more common...but maybe for a guppy it is...as i have never heard of an albino gup...id keep it if i were you

 

[Annastasia]

Albinos are semi-rare. They are starting to be bred more and more now, but it's still very cool you got him. Just hope he stays white, as I've had ones that have gone yellow later on.

 

[phoenixfire]

just be warned if he is albino...he could be
1. blind
2. sensitive to light (not sure of this one but in humans yes)

 

[guppymonkey]

WOW! I am sooooo jealous. I have been trying to a couple years to get my guppies to have albinos and I haven't seen any! I have had some born with three eyes though! I think albinos would be a lot cooler though.

 

[phoenixfire]

usually if a pair doesnt give albions after a couple of batches...they dont hold the gene...u could try forever to find a pair that will give u an albino but the chances arent to great at all

 

[love_fish]

usually if a pair doesnt give albions after a couple of batches...they dont hold the gene...u could try forever to find a pair that will give u an albino but the chances arent to great at all

Well, if Meg is nice enough, maybe she'll breed this albino fry when it gets older and possibly give/sell some away.

 

[phoenixfire]

lol that would be kinda interesting...but lets just hope it survives fry hood...and even then its possible that the fry might not pass on the gene...but with a batch of like 10-20 theres bound to be one right?! lol...good luck with this little fry

 

[fish4meplz]

I am so jealous i have always wanted an albino gup i hope that it really is that is so cool!

 

[phoenixfire]

hey megthefish...can ya get us a picture...or is he to small still

 

[MegTheFish]

Thanks for all the comments everyone, I just wanted to say that all the fry are doing great (including the albino) and I just found another fry after I got home from school. So I now have 12 in total.
And about breeding the albino fry (if it survives), I probably won't as I'm not aloud to set up any more tanks. If I do set up another tank it will be for all the guppies to live in, then the 5 gallon would be used as a grow-out tank. It's going to be quite squished in there with 17 guppies and 2 platies, but at the moment no one is full grown, water stats are all in check for now, surprisingly the nitrate never rises above 10! But I guess that will all change once everybody is grown! LoL.

Edit: I doubt I'd be able to take a decent pic, I can barely focus on my full grown fish, its a $700 camera too! It doesn't seem to be able to focus in that great.

 

[Genesis]

pics

 

[MegTheFish]

Found another one, it was trapped between the gravel and glass, its a tiny bit smaller then the other fry so she was still giving, I think (hope) she's done now though.

 

[Annastasia]

Another Albino one? Wow, it'd be great if it was a male and a female..I'm sure lots of people would take them off you if you decided to breed, and they did indeed carry dominant albino.

 

[phoenixfire]

lol i think she meant another normal fry