BN pleco?

[Shrimpguy]

just got two albino BN and one longfin brown BN and wanted to know if they bred together what would the babys come out to be if the longfin mix with the albino.

[zzyzx85]

hard to say. You might get more of the dominant traits and a few of the recessive, or the other way around. I'm no genetics expert so you might want to wait for more experienced keepers.

I just got a pair of BNs as well and they were from albino parents, with the father being a LF, but they're both brown.

[7itanium]

In my experience... in order to get many albino babies- both parents need to be albino

not always... sometimes a couple albinos will be in the mix

but the gene for color in most fish is a dominant gene... and since albinos LACK that gene-- then the color gene will transfer to most, if not all of the babies

[Mgamer20o0]

bn is a bn so they will breed together. there are lots of factors that go into the genes.

[toddnbecka]

I have fry from 2 different females, same male fathered them all. All 3 breeders are brown, but I see albino fry in abundance. Can't really say how many, I disturbed them a week ago and wigglers scattered through the tank. The fry that stayed in the cave are mostly brown with a few albino's mixed in. However, it looks like a larger percentage of the scattered fry (that are now developed free-swimmers) are albino's.