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[Grado]

Hi,

I’ve been keeping tropical fish in Perth since high school for over 20 years off and on. I started off with convicts, Geophagus brasiliensis, loaches, various synodontis catfish, pictus catfish, Texas cichlids, Oscars and other South American cichlids, gouramis, tetras, barbs, plecos and a gibbi, and then there was a time there when I moved house and didn’t set up the tank for a year or so and then bred Discus for a few years.

I then moved onto the Malawi mbuna but had an incident about a year ago where the Rena 300W heater went haywire and boiled my fish… it was a very sad time…

Some of the juveniles survived and I have restocked and now the 4’x2’x2’ I’m running has a pondmaster 1800 with a large sponge, a new Eheim 2217 to replace a 20 year old Fluval 303 which developed a crack in the housing and leaked about 50 litres of water onto the carpet last week! It is housing colonies of Acei Tanzania, Mainganos, a few multis, 6 largish clown loaches and a bristlenose.

I recently was surprised to learn that the multis had spawned a fairly normal looking offspring as I only had just 1 male and 1 female adults. But even more surprising was when I found an albino multi a day later! :-o

I spoke to Mark (formerly from Atlantis Aquariums) who sold them to me and he said in all his time in the industry he has never heard of an albino multi. I feel very fortunate! :-)

Anyway thanks for reading my intro this far and I hope to able to contribute something useful to the forum.

Cheers,
John

[Ronny]

Welcome John,

Good read that was

Would love to see pics of the albino Multi

[dazzabozza]

Would love to see pics of the albino Multi

[Grado]

Not a really good photo... I'm having trouble getting it to stay still out in the open and the flash really freaks it out!

It's only about 1.5-2cm at the moment so I might be able to get better pics as it grows a bit more.

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[Poncho]

Wow - I've never heard of an albino cuckoo before.

You should post that up in the catfish forum, I reckon it will generate heaps of interest.

Welcome to the forum mate!

[Ronny]

WOW.

that sure is a treasure you got there.

So lucky you are

[dazzabozza]

For this to happen both parents must be carriers of the albino recessive gene yeah??

I did a quick google search and couldn't find any other occurrences.

[fishfingers]

cha ching $$$

[Grado]

Thanks for the welcome guys!

I will post a thread up in the catfish forum regarding the albino multi when I get some better pics of it.