Also, my other couple with the generation 1 male with stripes and the patternless female, also had babies, they’re 3 weeks old.
Honduran red points
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Seeing some without stripes in there. Just to clarify again, is the patternless line the same as the super blues?
The patternless line is the original female that helped create the super blue line.
she’s gen 1. The striped male is pretty blue too, from there all the fry came out blue with stripes.
i took those blue fry and bred them with my green line, now I have some blue & some green.
Ok guys, let me try to give you guys a breakdown of these red points and their generations:
Ken Davis striped blue male/ Gen 1
Rusty wessel patternless blue female/ Gen 1
Creates super blue/ Gen 2. all offspring from
Gen 2 have stripes, since stripes are the dominant allele. No fry came out patternless, but! They all had the females super blue background color.
i then took a beautiful fluorescent green male from a separate line that I’ve had for a couple years (he was sent to me from a friend up in New Jersey, along with another green female) and I bred him with a Gen 2 super blue female.
The offspring then came out 1/3 green, 1/3 blue, 1/3 mixed blue-green. It’s hard to tell when they’re young but as they age, you can definitely tell which fish has which genes. Something that helps me is all my fish from my green line have 5 stripes, and all of the fish from my blue line have 6 stripes. But now that they’ve mixed, I have some blue ones with 5 stripes and green ones with 6 stripes and
blue-green ones with both 5 & 6 stripes.
now the green male does have a green female partner that he’s produced plenty of fry with, so I have a lot of green adolescent red points in one of my tanks.
I hope I didn’t confuse anybody lol just wanted to give a rundown of my experiment!
Ken Davis striped blue male/ Gen 1
Rusty wessel patternless blue female/ Gen 1
Creates super blue/ Gen 2. all offspring from
Gen 2 have stripes, since stripes are the dominant allele. No fry came out patternless, but! They all had the females super blue background color.
i then took a beautiful fluorescent green male from a separate line that I’ve had for a couple years (he was sent to me from a friend up in New Jersey, along with another green female) and I bred him with a Gen 2 super blue female.
The offspring then came out 1/3 green, 1/3 blue, 1/3 mixed blue-green. It’s hard to tell when they’re young but as they age, you can definitely tell which fish has which genes. Something that helps me is all my fish from my green line have 5 stripes, and all of the fish from my blue line have 6 stripes. But now that they’ve mixed, I have some blue ones with 5 stripes and green ones with 6 stripes and
blue-green ones with both 5 & 6 stripes.
now the green male does have a green female partner that he’s produced plenty of fry with, so I have a lot of green adolescent red points in one of my tanks.
I hope I didn’t confuse anybody lol just wanted to give a rundown of my experiment!
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Big difference in breeding dress and regular colors! Some people tried to tell me that my red points look like regular convicts, but don’t understand that their colors change to black & white while defending fry!
Agree, they DO change color! My dominant female looks like a deep blue con with stripes/blue lip but in breeding dress she's got a turquoise/rainbow thing going on!
Fry are now about half the size of the smallest ones I have from Rusty.
They’re growing fast! I see your couple still gets along. My fry are a little over a month old and I had to remove my patternless female because the male was trying to kill her, so now he’s the only one in there with the fry. I’m curious to see how your fry turn out when they grow up. I know they’re gonna be beautiful. Learning about phenotypes & genotypes is very interesting so you can see the differences that show up in the offspring when you outcross the parents.
