malawi sand diver Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Just wondering what people's opionions about the albino red empress available at the moment are. Are they legit? e.g. not mixed with dragon blood. I have a male growing atm with a normal red emperess of the same size & plan to post some pics of the 2. Cheers, Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi sand diver Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 OK took a while but got them in the same frame! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithoMan Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 hi mate I have had them for a while now too me they look exactly a albino red empress... Some of the males come out stunning Trying to grow out another colony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi sand diver Posted July 25, 2017 Author Share Posted July 25, 2017 Thats awesome mate, thanks for that. Will be interesting to see the red come through as they get bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firthy13 Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I have seem some amazing ones and then others that have cleary been cross with something albino. The issue is you cant really tell until the males are quite big and displaying. Definitely worth the time investment though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humbug Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 I’m personally yet to see any in the flesh that I’d be happy to consider to be pure, but I’ve seen photos of individuals which look on the mark. To make any proper judgement you probably need to keep them and breed them. Compare their behaviour against that of pure fish, and critically assess the offspring of multiple broods for uniformity and consistency of type. I reckon that lack of uniformity of the offspring can be a strong tell-tale of hybridisation. I strongly believe the safe approach with any of these fish is to take the conservative route and treat them as an “aquarium strain”. As long as they are kept separate from known pure forms then no harm is caused. We are already seeing the impact of the “albino dolphin” in Australia. People have been mixing them with blue fish and selling the offspring as pure blue dolphins. Blue fish with red anal fins have even shown up recently from at least one Australian wholesaler, which could well be as a result of an “albino” cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi sand diver Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Thanks Kathy & Michael, will update the thread with another photo when this guys colours up. That's interesting about the dolphins, I always thought the head shape looked a little too pointed on those guys. Must have been some dragon blood in there. Agreed about keeping them seperate, to preserve the red emps here now - most are taeniolatus from namelenji island, then there are the occasional "fire blue" that could get confused and now the albino. Plus a few years back I noticed there was some taeniolatus from the from the Boadzulu collection point here. Not sure if those are still around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithoMan Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 having trouble uploading but if you goto my lithoman cichlids facebook page you will see my original albino red emp let me know what you think he died but i sold a fair few fry from him and i have a small colony growing out hoping some turn out nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi sand diver Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 Hey thanks for the vid. They look pretty cool, the shape does look very much like a propper red empress, interesting to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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