When will BN pleco fry (albino/lemon) lose baby color-->normal color

I have a staggering 31 bn pleco fry. Mom is albino and dad is blue eyed lemon. The eggs were first laid way back in mid june to late june. So they are a little over 3 months old. I was wondering when they will lose their baby color which is black with white spots and gain their normal lemon or albino colors. Im assuming there is going to be more lemon than albino because albino coloring is a recessive gene. Anyone know when they get their normal color?

 

What you see now is the color they are going to be. Elbert and a female super red bred. All the fry ending up looking like what you are seeing right now. The only thing that changed was the white on the tip of their fins.

 

What you see now is the color they are going to be. Elbert and a female super red bred. All the fry ending up looking like what you are seeing right now. The only thing that changed was the white on the tip of their fins.

So they arent going to have any albino or lemon traits? Just regular bn color? And from what you said could they have a albino fin or something.

 

Agree all fry will be natural colored.
Funny thing is even in case of two albino parents the offspring can all be brown. There are two different albino-gens

So they arent going to have any albino or lemon traits? Just regular bn color? And from what you said could they have a albino fin or something.

The white fintip is normal for BN's

 

So they arent going to have any albino or lemon traits? Just regular bn color? And from what you said could they have a albino fin or something.

The color you see now is the color they are going to be. If you don't see it by now then no the fins won't be albino. Fry start out with the white on the tip of their fins. As they get older the white disappears.

When I allowed 2 super reds to breed the fry were all the same color as their parents from the time they were born. As I said though. Elbert and a super red female produced fry that look just like what you are seeing right now. I kept one of the fry. She is now at least 2 years old and looks nothing like her parents. The only change is the loss of the white on the tip of her fins.

 

The color you see now is the color they are going to be. If you don't see it by now then no the fins won't be albino. Fry start out with the white on the tip of their fins. As they get older the white disappears.

When I allowed 2 super reds to breed the fry were all the same color as their parents from the time they were born. As I said though. Elbert and a super red female produced fry that look just like what you are seeing right now. I kept one of the fry. She is now at least 2 years old and looks nothing like her parents. The only change is the loss of the white on the tip of her fins.

Ok, I don’t see any white on their fins. I’m assuming if the parents are two different color combos than the baby’s are going to be black with white spots but if they are both lemon or albino they will become the same color as their parents.

 

Ok, I don’t see any white on their fins. I’m assuming if the parents are two different color combos than the baby’s are going to be black with white spots but if they are both lemon or albino they will become the same color as their parents.

Recessive genes both, both require a gene from both parents to become that color. An albino bred to anything that does not have an albino gene (or is albino - this being your commonly produce albinos which seem to be the same strain of albino) will produce brown colored fry (unless the albino is carrying a gene for blue eyed or super red or green dragon - but that is a whole other thread on genetics that gets extremely complicated).

Fry gain their color (on in the case of albino already have their color) within the time they are absorbing their yolk sack. By the time they have absorbed their yolk sack they are the color they will appear as an adult.

I have a brown bristlenose that is from an albino and red marble/calico parents, she is completely brown with no features to indicate she has different genes. To her offspring she would offer one albino or one calico gene - if she isn't paired with a fish that is albino or calico (or hidden recessive genes like her) her offspring would be brown but would either carry albino or calico. Unless a chimera egg happened (as I've seen a female bristlenose that was both albino and blue eyed with a different colored eye on each side and produced albino and blue eyed offspring with those respective colors).