Some of you may remember the project I did awhile ago with breeding different colored convicts and getting a bunch of random phenotypes. Of those phenotypes, blue fry (similar to the blue lago nicaraguas I produced) were also produced, likely coming from their platinum father. I found the blue phenotype and the "black" phenotype could not interact with eachother, resulting in a 50/50 split in each phenotype per batch of fry (including the leucistic forms of both which were additionally produced). I was never able to rear any of these blue fry to adulthood as they always got killed by their pink, black, and platinum siblings for some reason. I had never seen them in adult coloration, until today. I sold a pair of them to one guy at a local club, and while the female was killed, he still has the male. It looks like the rio mongos/claros I got from Ken Davis. Bright blue gills over a dark blueish grey body, with deep red fins. Funnily enough the baby rio mongos look exactly like these blue fry as well. I may be piecing together how HRPs came to be. I'll be messing around with line breeding my blue lago nicaraguas to see if I can get any as blue as HRPs. Would be cool to have giant blue convicts if I'm successful.
