Making Nuclear Albinos..step one

[Stockwell]

Here my 2 year old Mark Bell male albino breeds one of my 3 year old "Nuclear" Kenyans... This is the first time I managed to photograph it, but he has mated her a few times this season.
My goal here is to inject the albino gene into my high orange Kenyan line with the hope of making albino Kenyans with brighter, and wider orange.., even striped albinos might be possible. Many albino Kenyans currently in the hobby are pretty drab (read ugly). This is because the albino gene is actually from the Egyptian race of Gongylophis colubrinus which tend toward yellow and not orange.

This mating should produce hets which I'll have to grow up and breed with each other or back to their father to produce the new "Nuclear Albinos"

[Piers]

Looks great Roy I guess I'll have to make a trip out to T.O. to get some Kenyans off you.
Piers

[Jeff_Favelle]

Beauties!!!!

[BoidKeeper]

That's great Roy! I can't wait! I was wondering can a male Kenyan breed more then one female throughout the season? Just wondering how far you can spread the albino gene in one season.
Cheers,
Trevor

[Stockwell]

Hi Trev! Yes one male can certainly breed a few females but I'm not doing that this year because of his young age and unproven status.
This is a very young male (18 months). I have a female albino the same age and I'm not even going to risk breeding her until next season because she just isn't big enough.
This female pictured here, is a 3 year old nuke hold back, and this will be her first year. She is big, and had been binge feeding,so I feel the probability is high that she will produce, providing the male isn't shooting blanks.
In order to ensure high fertility, I generally breed several males with all my nuclear females, but this obviously cannot be done, when the goal is to make definite hets.
Rather than risking a pile of slugs out of my older breeder nukes, I'm not using my one albino on them at all, and will produce only pure nukes out of them as usual.
Next year however I will definately use one of the bigger ones to produce more albino hets.
The male pictured is also an anery carrier in addition to being amel.
Next season he will breed an anery het amel female to produce babies of all know genetics. Since I also have an anery het albino male, he will be used to breed my albino het anery female to produce the exact same outcome.
and that is 25 % snows 25% amels het anery 25% anery het amel and 25 % normal looking double hets
This will avoid the whole maybe het problem

[Simon]

Wow...
great project that you are working on~!!

Good luck and I am hoping to be able to see those results in a couple of years time~~!!

Lovely looking male!!