Re: [GSAS-Member] Ancistrus

["Jenny Crampton" <beanbucket@gmail.com>]

Hi Shango,

They were originally brown, but with enough breeding comes mutations.
Breeders selected those mutations that would otherwise die out in the
wild (bright yellow "eat me!" fish) and ran with them...

Its weird with ancistrus.  I havn't had direct experience yet, but I
have heard that if you cross two albinos, all their offspring will
come out their original pigmented color, and the only way to get
albinos is to cross either an albino and a regular, or two regulars
with some albinism in their recent ancestry.

The ones I brought to the last meeting, for example, have parents of
the first option.  Dads yellow, mums original.  The offspring were
roughly half and half.

Heres some pictures of a different varieties of our "domesticated"
ancistrus.  The varieties are analagous to different color goldfish...
all the same species, though:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=49

jenny <*))))=<   <*))))=<   <*))))=<


On 3/20/07, Shango Los <Shango@shangolos.com> wrote:
> Hi there Jenny,
>
> I was glad to finally meet you at the last meeting.
>
> In your recent post regarding ancistrus, you said you thought you might
> bring a bag of each color.  That totally got my attention.  Aren't all
> ancistrus albino and thus pink?  Are there colored versions...and if so, do
> they come out during the day like the albinos?
>
> Thanks
>
> Shango
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> From: "Jenny Crampton" <beanbucket@gmail.com>
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> Hi Matt,
>
> Glad to hear the little guys are working out.  I will certainly be
> bringing some more to the auction in April.  Maybe a bag of each color
> then a couple mixed bags, all of about 4 each?  By then they should be
> about an inch.
>
> --jenny
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> From: matt kaufman <igotadose@hotmail.com>
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> Coolio! The more, the merrier. My only concern is what they'll do to the
> plants as they get older - but perhaps I'll have enough to breed by then and
> just use the young'uns to control algae. They've made a real visible
> difference in
> my algage-laden plant tank since I put them in last week, and seem to be
> growing a bit.
>
> Matt
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> > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:49:14 -0700> From: beanbucket@gmail.com> To:
> gsas-member@thekrib.com> Subject: [GSAS-Member] those rockin ancistruses/
> ancistri/ ancestors...> > Hi Matt,> > Glad to hear the little guys are
> working out. I will certainly be> bringing some more to the auction in
> April. Maybe a bag of each color> then a couple mixed bags, all of about 4
> each? By then they should be> about an inch.> > --jenny>
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