So I made a post a very long while ago on a hybrid convict I named "Nick" (in light of the nick in his dorsal fin he was born with that pretty much makes it so his first two dorsal spines are disconnected from the rest of the fin)
A little history on Nick if you want to read it:
Bought a pair of 'marbled honduran red points', (not the ones from TUIC Jeff had awhile ago), they spawned 3 times and I pulled the fry too early on the third one and the male killed the female.
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Sold the male and all the older batches, and Nick, distinguishable by the little fin deformity at a small size:
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being barely half an inch long, ate his entire batch of siblings. Then it was just him so I put him in a planted 5 by himself. Eventually put some juvenile ancistrus in temporarily, he ate them. He was still barely half an inch long.
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He went through alot in that 5 gallon, the heater and filter burned out without me noticing for a few weeks (irresponsible I know) but he didn't seem to be affected by this so that just went to show the resilience of the little fish. He grew, I upgraded him to a 10 by himself. Then he kept growing, and so did his fins, the streamers on which grew to almost connect around his tail.
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I tried getting him a female HRP to breed with since that was the only component of his genetics I was aware of, since he had developed a shiny white coloration and red fins. He is also marbled like his parents, and somehow turned out almost exactly like his father, which I think is interesting.Meanwhile, my pair of (supposedly) wild type convicts (that I have mentioned in other threads) had spawned, then the male died in a camallanus outbreak to a secondary bacterial infection. My male rio mongo HRP also lost his mate, so I decided to put the male HRP with the female convict, they spawned, produced about a hundred fry which I am currently growing out in the same 5 gallon Nick grew up in, and I separated the pair.
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Here's where the whole project thing comes in. I've been wanting to breed Nick for awhile because of his fin genes and coloration, and I've seen how good of a mother my female convict has been (she raised her first batch of fry without the male, and this batch she went as far as to kill half the tank to protect them, and bit my hands a couple times when I pulled the fry) and complimented by her coloration as well:
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I got the idea to breed her with Nick. So now we have our project which I'm calling the "Indominus Project", because Nick sort of reminds me of the main antagonist of the movie Jurassic World, the Indominus rex. Hybrid of unknown things, almost albino white, kills everything he comes into contact with, ate his siblings. Plus "Indominus convict" is an easier name for me to call whatever he is as opposed to "Hybrid platinum marbled honduran red point", though at least I have that for anyone who wants specification. I don't intend to profit from this, though I will sell to anyone who wants the offspring if they turn out nice.
TLDR: good looking hybrid convict named Nick because of fin deformity, reminds me of the Indominus rex from Jurassic world, naming project after that because he's a lethally aggressive hybrid. Breeding him with colorful female almost wild type convict because she's a good mother.
So far, I put him in the tank with the female, immediately needed a divider. Female didn't warm up to him the same way she did with the male honduran red point, they started fighting, Nick got chased off and got in a fight with the rainbow cichlid I'm using as a dither. now there's a two way divider, with Nick in the middle. I may have put him in too soon because it hasn't been too long since I pulled the fry from the last batch so the female may still be in a defensive mood.
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I'll post updates on how they get along and if fry happen, I'll update that as well.
