Races of Jaguar cichlid
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Well, lots of spawns later and no xanthic fry so far, although I have sold a few to people, so who knows what they'll end up with!
Ken (fishfarm) is now has these, so I'm hoping to find out how he's succeeded where we have failed.
I keep staring at the huge batches of fry in with their parents hoping I'm going to see one with no black pigment...
Ken (fishfarm) is now has these, so I'm hoping to find out how he's succeeded where we have failed.
I keep staring at the huge batches of fry in with their parents hoping I'm going to see one with no black pigment...
There ya go! I have a small percentage of true xanthic from a recent spawn of two wild Honduran fish, They are xanthic from birth, you guys have xanthic confused with Amphilophus that peel at a later age to a lighter color, these are not true genetic xanthics. True xanthics lack dark pigment from birth, i.e gold severum, gold rams, gold guppies, they are all gold at birth. I have a wild female Honduras managuense we caught in 2006 as a tiny fry, Mo has posted lots of pictures of some of these fish. I have bred her with 3 previous males collected at the same spot, all the fry produced have been normal. She's a ***** and killed off the first 3 males over time, I bred her recently to my last male and noticed that a small percentage of the fry had no pigment and were gr0wing slower than the rest of the fry and were being eating by their syblings, I thought they were albinos and pulled 42 fish, as they grew it became obvious they were solid yellow, absolutely no black pigment at all, I listed them in my sales forum as future fish that will be available, well people have been bugging me so much I started shipping them this week at 1/2", I have about a dozen left for sale, I plan to keep about 10, now I need this pair to bred a few more times before she kills this male too! I plan to separate them ASAP next time! Ken
Wow, so few. Glad I got mine!
I remember last year when nobody ever thought they'd see Xanthic Jags in the hobby again.
Ken, got pix of the pair you spawned?
I remember last year when nobody ever thought they'd see Xanthic Jags in the hobby again.
Ken, got pix of the pair you spawned?
