Honduran red points

Showtimekev · May 10, 2023

My Chris Butcher line is starting to settle in nicely. I’m going to cross them with my blue line once they’re old enough.

therfish · May 10, 2023

Showtimekev said:
This is very interesting. A friend of mine up in New Jersey is breeding his HRP to become the bluest he can produce, which is where I got the line breeding project idea from. When his HRP produce fry, half of them come out blue, and the other half come out grey like the fish in Ken’s picture. My buddy also purchased his from Ken Davis a few years back, So that would explain it. I’m guessing this could be a grey version of HRP? I’ve witnessed it for myself where half of his brood are beautiful bright blue, and the other half look like convicts with red tails, and they have the same parents. Very interesting indeed.

The brother of my brute male HRP bred with one of the females I got from Ken Davis's batch that looks like a convict before I got rid of Ken's line. Only a few offspring made it bc I didn't care to save them. But I did notice that most of them were convict like with reddish tail while two blue ones look decent. I don't intend to breed the convict look a likes but plan to test breed the blue ones to see if they'll still make convict look a likes. If they do, I will scrap that batch and keep the two blue ones just for a show tank.

Hybridfish7 · May 10, 2023

@Showtimekev I don't think she made it

Hybridfish7 · May 10, 2023

Hybridfish7 said:
@Showtimekev I don't think she made it

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SHE MADE IT

Showtimekev · May 10, 2023

Hybridfish7 said:
SHE MADE IT

She made it!?!?! Wow!!

I’m so glad she endured that, usps should be ashamed of themselves. You have to name her “lucky” now lol

Showtimekev · May 10, 2023

When you get a chance, send pics of her @Hybridfish7

Showtimekev · May 10, 2023

therfish said:
The brother of my brute male HRP bred with one of the females I got from Ken Davis's batch that looks like a convict before I got rid of Ken's line. Only a few offspring made it bc I didn't care to save them. But I did notice that most of them were convict like with reddish tail while two blue ones look decent. I don't intend to breed the convict look a likes but plan to test breed the blue ones to see if they'll still make convict look a likes. If they do, I will scrap that batch and keep the two blue ones just for a show tank.

Send pics when you get a chance!

FINWIN · May 10, 2023

This is so wild...your situation reminds me of my delivery of both male pink hrps. Delivery IN TRANSIT several days in a heat wave...box arrived leaking and I thought they were cooked. But Mongo and Slade were fine! After a couple hours of settling in they started fighting, lol. These hrps are tough little snoogas!

therfish · May 12, 2023

Showtimekev said:
Send pics when you get a chance!

These are the 4 offspring that survived from the brother to my brute male and one of Ken's convict-y females. Most of the convict look alikes became feeders at a young age but one managed to survive. He's the one that looks like convict but with a red tail. I circled it in red and numbered it #4 bc it's one of the 4 surviving siblings. Siblings numbers one through three circled in blue are siblings to the convict look alike. Out of the whole batch, these 3 were the only 3 with colors so I saved them to see how the would turn out. They have more of a sky blue color to them like their dad did. I plan to cross them to see if they'll still throw out convict look alikes. If so, they'll be scrapped too.

Disregard the one I circled in green. It's a completely different batch of HRP and I'll update and post about that batch at another time. This green line is probably my second favorite line just behind my brute male line. They resemble more of what a HRP would look like to me out of the ones I have so I intend to keep the line.