Albino baby ……maybe?

[Burleson]

Ok so a while ago I posted about my big o pregnant mom guppy anyway she gave birth recently to 11 beautiful fry So basically one of the fry is like almost white can someone tell me why or anything this is only my second batch of guppy fry ever
Some of the pics are kinda bad and ignore the breeder box it has been just sitting in there and I only just put them in there to see how many she had and to get a good look at them

 

[Innesfan]

Not albino. If it were, it would have a pink eye. It appears to be a blonde, which is recessive to normal grey but will occur if both parents carry the recessive gene, which is a common occurrence.

 

[gwand]

I think it is a leucitic albino. White skin and black eyes. Melanin can be made in eyes but not elsewhere. In guppies, this means that a leucistic guppy will appear very pale, often white, but may still retain some color and will have normal eye coloration.

 

[Burleson]

Ok thanks

 

[emeraldking]

It doesn't look like a leucistic guppy but it's just a blond guppy. As already told, if both parents carry the blond gene recessively or one carries it dominantly while the other carries it recessively, in the offspring blond fry can occur. You probably also don't know the genetic background of both parents.
What could also be the reason of the blond fry is that the male you've got in there isn't the father. While female guppies can store sperm packets of multiple males, the storage happens randomly in the folds of the fallopian tube. This means as well, that one fold can consist of sperm of multiple males. When she releases sperm packets of one or more folds to fertilize her eggs, the batch of newborns can be fathered by multiple males which makes those fry half siblings. So, these are the options that can result in a blond offspring.

It would've been a leucistic guppy if the base color would be white instead of blond. But yours is blond.

 

[emeraldking]

I think it is a leucitic albino

Leucistic albinos don't exist. It's either albino or leucistic. And when we're speaking of albino there are three types of albino. A real albino is a socalled "oculocutaneous albino" (OCA). This is a specimen with a white or pale skin with light red eyes. There's also the socalled "ocular albino", which is a specimen that's got a non white nor pale skin color but with light red eyes. These two forms of albinism is called "Real Red Eye Albino" (RREA). The third variety of albinism is called "lutino". Such specimens can have all kinds of skin colors (means also white or a pale skin) but they've got dark red eyes because there's still a low concentration of melanin in their eyes. A specimens of this type of albinism is called "Wine Red Eye Albino" (WREA).

Leucistic specimens have a white or pale skin with no red eyes (that could be any type of color with the exception of red, mostly black eyes in fish like these). But this got nothing to do with albinism.

 

[gwand]

Thanks for clarifying. I thought if the skin is white or pale that was a form of albinism.

 

[emeraldking]

Thanks for clarifying. I thought if the skin is white or pale that was a form of albinism.

No, it's not in any relation to albinism. But hey, we 're all here to learn from eachother... Even I pick up on something new on this forum...