They have been catalogued as a subspecies, but they are still in the bristlenose family and will breed with any of the common colored bristlenose.
The information that I can find states that a single amelanistic male was found and was exported from Paraguay and was spawned with a normal color female and later bred back with his own daughters to fix the mutation. Amelanistic' is an absence of dark colored pigments that results in a tan / yellow colored fish (as in L144) with normal coloured eyes.
I think if you bred an L144 back to a common brown, albino or calico, the blue eyes would be a recessive gene.
THere are none in the wild, and they are not very commonly found. I am really surprised that your store is getting some of these. See if that's what they truly come in as. If you get some, try to keep the strain pure and strong and prevent them from breeding with other types of ancistrus. I for one would hate to see them disappear, they are truly a gorgeous ancistrus!
The information that I can find states that a single amelanistic male was found and was exported from Paraguay and was spawned with a normal color female and later bred back with his own daughters to fix the mutation. Amelanistic' is an absence of dark colored pigments that results in a tan / yellow colored fish (as in L144) with normal coloured eyes.
I think if you bred an L144 back to a common brown, albino or calico, the blue eyes would be a recessive gene.
THere are none in the wild, and they are not very commonly found. I am really surprised that your store is getting some of these. See if that's what they truly come in as. If you get some, try to keep the strain pure and strong and prevent them from breeding with other types of ancistrus. I for one would hate to see them disappear, they are truly a gorgeous ancistrus!
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