Albino Mbuna

[wayne]

As one of the best things about mbuna is their colour, is there any point to albinos?

 

[nonamethefish]

Seemingly not...there is no point. But thin kabout it....you are breedign soem fish..they are bright blue...then, you discover a pure white one...are you gonna keep it?

Course you're gonna! Its unusual! hmm.no oen has seen anythign like it..maybe if i breed it and sell hte white babies I'll get some dollars comin in.

Thats how it goes.

i'll have to agree, a yellow and blakc auratus looks much better than a washed out yellowish one.

 

[Somonas]

I would say no, there are no albino cichlids in The Lake anyway. Most if not all are bred in Florida.

There are a few african cichlids that do not exist at all, and are created (read crossbred) in Florida - albino pseudotropheus zebra, o.b. aulonocara peacock, and *shudder* the "eureka" peacock

 

[Somonas]

However there is WHITE fish in the lake, with black eyes (non albino) that look quite nice in aquariums, pseudotropheus callianos, white and blue morphs often called the Pearl zebra, and the very rare white male Metriaclima Estherae.

 

[wayne]

Frankly every albino I've seen was a pretty ugly washed out pink grey colour that probably doesn't have much going for it in terms of interesting behaviour. Thats different to a white fish, or white base with colours. I don't know, I still don't see much appeal. I guess I rate this as highly as 'mixed mbuna'.

 

[SoulFish]

i have a very ugly albino peacock, he looks like a fish whos been descaled, a thing about albinos is that they are usually a weaker strain and wont be able to hold up against other fish who are agressive even of the same species, comes from breeding for an imperfection and inbreeding