I bought 3 black convict cichlids a while back and 2 of them paired of and began mating. They've mated about 3 times since and due to transporting the tank and other fish in the tank eating all the fry, only about 7 have survive. My question is this. 3 of the 7 are pink in color and have very VERY slight striping on them. Both of the parents are all black though. Is it possible that two of the black colored parents could spawn albino babies?
Albino Convicts?
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Regular black convicts could have pink convict fry (false albino) along with blacks in the same spawn. They look exactly like albino's but don't have red eyes and will stay pink as they mature.
I'm guessing it's pretty common, I've had mixed fry from 2 blacks, but I don't keep convicts anymore.
the pink gene is recessive. that means that a fish needs one copy of the gene from each parent to show the color (2 copies total). only one copy of the gene means that the fish will look black, but still carry the gene. your parent convicts both have one black and one pink gene.