I've made some overall observations about my Honduran Redpoints. Some may be accurate, others not as I'm no geneticist. Because the breeding line has a lot of moving parts, bear with me.
We start off with the OGs: Pip/Mongo/Slade. Mongo and Slade are two Calico Pink siblings. Pip is slate blue-gray/striped and unrelated. In full breeding dress Pip has electric blue fins and pink body spangles. Her lips are bright blue.
Pip and Mongo have one branch of generations. Slade has the other branch from Pip/Mongo offspring.
1. Body type appears to be tied to color. All of the tall body bulky males are striped. The pinks are elongated and thick. There are no tall bulky males that are pink so far. Both variants have males with nuchal humps.
2. Pip's body type and color (striped, tall body) dominates the 2nd generation. (100% blue-gray gene).
Mongo (100% pink gene). their offspring 80% striped blue-gray, 20% blue silver blanks with faded pink areas (no stripes). These are 50/50 pink-blue gray gene.
Of the blanks some had faded out stripes or faded calico spots. Two males from this group (Dusty, Scooter) have red top fins. Dusty and sibling Mote are the only stripeless ones into adulthood. The other blanks developed stripes as they matured.
3. All of the giant males are from the second generation and so far, and none have produced fry. They are also the least aggressive overall and somewhat skittish. They are more agressive with their siblings.
4. When given a choice the females (either striped or pink) gravitate toward the pink males first.
5. 4th generation has Slade emerge as the dominant male breeder. He has fry with his 'niece' Speck (50/50 pink/blue-gray gene). Speck has a brighter, higher contast gray with her stripes and a large red belly spot. Speck becomes the dominant female breeder with 3 sets of fry.
6. The offspring of Speck/Slade have 75/25 pink/blue gray gene. The pink gene is now dominant but the blue-gray gene is persistent. The ratio of Speck's fry is 50/50 pink vs striped. Underlying variations of recessive dna are now showing. The striped fry are almost bright silver in background color with red bellies. The pink fry have red bellies as well. Red top fins are now appearing.
7. 5th generation has siblings Dotty and Blackbeard with fry. Both are pink Calicos out of Speck/Slade. Pink gene is now 88/12 pink dominant. All fry are pink calico in appearance.
8. 5th generation Flash and Squiggy, siblings of Dotty and blackbeard. Flash is a silver striped sister of Calico pink Dotty. Squiggy is a pink calico like his brother Blackbeard.The fry from Flash/Squiggy are 60/40 pink and striped. So immediately the stripes make a return in the same generation in this batch.
9. 5th generation Mongo and Blaze. Blaze is his granddaughter and the daughter of Slade. Blaze is striped and has no red belly blotch like most of her siblings. They have new fry too small to identify. New fry are 75/25 pink/striped gene. Blaze has high contrast body color almost white silver with stripes..
Some conclusions, right or wrong:
The giant variant may be sterile or primarily sub-dom. This variant is connected to the blue-gray/stripe gene. Body type of this variation very tall and thick. So far there are no tall giant pink calicos.
Stripes are the most dominant trait. Darker body color second. When one parent has stripes the ratio hovers 50/50 even if the pink gene is dominant and body color lightens.
Body color in striped fry shifts from steel blue to silver once the pink gene is stronger.
Red belly blotch appears to be controlled by the pink gene and displays even when the fish aren't in breeding mode.
Red tails for males is consistent across morphs.
By the 3rd generation more elongated striped males appear as that body type starts to dominate. Whether they remain that way is unknown since they are only half grown.
The different body morph shapes seem to affect the males far more than females.
Pip's gold eye color appears recessive. Mongo and Slade's dark eye color is dominant. However Mongo has one solid black eye and one silver eye...none of his descendants show this feature so far. There are no pink calicos with gold eyes but there are striped grays with both gold and /or black eyes.
The dominant fish in each generation do all the breeding. One exception was when Stripey had fry with his mother Pip (these were donated) and every single fry was a miniature version of Pip! Stripey is not a breeder in the 125 at all.
Mongo and Slade (aka the bad brothers) have bred with various generations of females and aren't challenged by any of the big sons.
Pip is a truly dominant female. She's surrounded by 8 adult sons (half are giants or near) and there are no fry. Once he had a growth spurt Hulk tried to bully/nest with her but she attacked right back. The other sons either stay in another area or near her at a small distance. Stripey is the only son she had fry with. But they all give her space when she wants it. So either she's not interested in breeding, they don't appeal to her or they are sterile. Not that I'm complaining.
Red and blue color body/fin morphs reveal once the dominant dark genes no longer suppress them. The red bellies didn't show with consistency until Gen 3. Combination red/blue fins came later as well.
The stripe pattern is remarkably identical in numerous fry regardless of generation almost like a stamp. There is a broken half moon stripe on one side.
Blue lips seem to be connected to the blue-gray gene. No pink calicos have blue lips so far. The only outlier is Harlequin, a quad colored pink hrp with blue lips.The only other quad color sibling Neet has black lips.
There appears to be only one solid pink fry so far, a 3rd gen out of Slade and Speck. The calico markings appear to be as persistent as the stripes. Even this solid pink fry appears to have a tiny black mark over the tail stem.
The dominant genes contain hidden variations of color, pattern and shape. The recessive genes display these variations once no longer suppressed.
One pink calico male (Slade) has produced 2 four color offspring (Neet, Harlequin) with 2nd gen female Speck. More may be possible as Mongo (pink Calico, sibling to Slade) has fry with Speck's sister, Blaze. Will know more once the fry have enough size.
UPDATE: there is one fry that may have the one silver/black eye trait, a grandson of Mongo. Hard to tell if the black covers one whole eye as the fry is somewhat small right now.