The biggest, and sometimes the most common problem with an albino guppy is the female’s unquenchable urge to devour her newborn fry. This cannibalistic urge by the female, impacts the breeders selection, by limiting the choice of male’s and females for showing, to the few that escape her tendencies to eat the fry as they are being expelled from the birth canal.
Being somewhat new to albinos, I have tried the usual methods of placing the female in a breeder trap, and or covering the tank with black material to darken it and there-by inhibiting the female from seeing her new born fry swimming. Also, covering the top layer of the tank with large amounts of netting for the babies to hide in. All methods are weak and mostly result in either the female aborting the fry before the gestation period, or allow the female to hunt them in the netting. When it was a success you/I as a breeder need to be willing to check the females progress every few hours, and remove the fry as they are born and free swimming. For me, I do not have that amount of time to spend a day or sometimes two days, devoting my time to just one pregnant female.
Because of my current over crowding conditions, I have had to place a few one-month-old fry in several tanks while I cleaned and made room for them. One of the last choices I used as a temporary home for a few fry was the albino snakeskin female tank. The same female that would eat her fry, as they were born.
After the female swam with the one month old fry from another strain for a week, she was acclimated to seeing and sharing food with her new tank inhabitants. The one month fry were in the tank when she was giving birth
When she did drop, her tendencies to chase the newborn were not as strong as before, and about 85% of the fry were spared.
This is an alternative idea I have tried a few times in the last few months with a better success ratio than the other methods I have read about or heard from other breeders. I will refer to this idea as the Brewer-fry-seeding method from now on.