Some more photos to better showcase the males colors. Does anyone know why some lines of HRP get such black bars like convicts would but my stripeless line, the female stays whitish and blueish even while breeding/in breeding dress?
Honduran red points
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They just disappeared. But some of the, yes, Cuban x HRP already had potbellies before feeding time so that kind of explains that. Parents were moved. The Cuban x hrp are nearing an inch and are in the main tank, left side split 40 breeder. HRP fry in the fluval breeder box hanging on the left front of the tank. Moms on the other, right side of the split 40 with other females so no physical access to the fry.
Here are the parents too the Cuban x HRP.
Just depends on the lineage
The ones I got from Rusty have really thick bars and black beards, compared to the one I have from bioaquatix with light blue gills and thinner bars
Im in the middle of moving and I’m transferring my colony. Not too far, I had the fish in bags and I set up a bucket with an air stone, heater and filter. I wanna start my tanks new and get rid of all the sand (due to hex parasite). Im cleaning everything out and getting new sand, cleaning cave ornaments etc. do you guys think the fish will survive in a bucket for a couple weeks? It’s a 27G bucket and I’ve narrowed my colony down to only 10 fish, so I’m starting kinda fresh since I sold all my green line. I only have my blue & blue/green.
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Should do fine in there as long as aggression and fighting is under control.
I made sure to put lots of ornaments and rocks to break up their line of sight. I’m sure it’ll take around a month for my tank to cycle, maybe a little less.
Those are some stunning keepers that you have. Hopefully they all survive the move and the container living until their new tank is ready.
Hey guys, got some news, I'll run down the list real quick.
- all my pairs sorted themselves out by size upon the addition of the first ever male I bred from the tuic pair I had in 2020. That male is now paired to the bioaquatix female, the dominant tuic male paired to my female from Chris Butcher, and the Chris Butcher male paired to my tuic female.
- two of my individuals from Rusty paired up as well.
- all of the aforementioned pairs spawned repeatedly but only the fry from my tuic male/Chris Butcher female were able to attain any significant size.
- the tuic female and smallest tuic male died of a bacterial infection. One of my wetspot ones almost did as well but I think he's bouncing back.
- the female I got from @Showtimekev is really fat now. I was afraid she wasn't doing well, and kinda on edge given the condition she came in, but she's bounced back pretty well.
I was also finally able to find and read the paper that synonymized everything with nigrofasciata, and can confirm Honduran red points were part of this study. The los almendros population is in the same little branch of the family tree/lineage as the monga population, so I guess those people saying they were the same fish all those years ago were sort of right. Don't take this as an opportunity to cross the populations though. Regardless, Honduran red points are nigrofasciata, for now.
- all my pairs sorted themselves out by size upon the addition of the first ever male I bred from the tuic pair I had in 2020. That male is now paired to the bioaquatix female, the dominant tuic male paired to my female from Chris Butcher, and the Chris Butcher male paired to my tuic female.
- two of my individuals from Rusty paired up as well.
- all of the aforementioned pairs spawned repeatedly but only the fry from my tuic male/Chris Butcher female were able to attain any significant size.
- the tuic female and smallest tuic male died of a bacterial infection. One of my wetspot ones almost did as well but I think he's bouncing back.
- the female I got from @Showtimekev is really fat now. I was afraid she wasn't doing well, and kinda on edge given the condition she came in, but she's bounced back pretty well.
I was also finally able to find and read the paper that synonymized everything with nigrofasciata, and can confirm Honduran red points were part of this study. The los almendros population is in the same little branch of the family tree/lineage as the monga population, so I guess those people saying they were the same fish all those years ago were sort of right. Don't take this as an opportunity to cross the populations though. Regardless, Honduran red points are nigrofasciata, for now.
something for you to ponder: wild caught HRPs, straight from rio los almendros.
maybe there is some legitimacy to the blue lago nicaraguas I bred.
maybe there is some legitimacy to the blue lago nicaraguas I bred.
