Hi all
I have a lot of the colour varieties (common, albino and calico) long and short fin. I used to breed true to form with true to forms. More recently I have been crossing the colour varieties.
My assumption have been:
1. Calico to calico will give either all calico or calico and albino depending if the albino gene is carried by both parents.
2. Calico to albino will give all calico or calico and albino depending if the albino gene is carried by both parents.
3. Common to albino will give all common or common and albino depending of the albino gene is carried by both parents.
4. Longfin to short fin will give mixed results. More long fins will occur if one parent is longfin and the other shortfin parent carries the longfin gene.
5. Longfin to longfin will most likely give me 100% longfin.
Under my experiment I crossed the following
1. Calico short fin male with calico long fin females. 2 spawns seem to have given me 100% calicos. Not sure of longfin or short fin just yet as too small.
2. Longfin albino male crossed with longfin calico female. Seems to have given me 100% calico. Again too small to see if all are longfin.
3. Short fin calico male with longfin albino female. Seems to have given me 100% COMMONS - WTF? Again too small to see if longfin etc.
4. Longfin common with shortfin albino. Seems to have given me 70% albino and 30% common. Again too small to see if longfin etc.
3 above - I cant work out why this has happend. ANyone with any ideas?
thanks folks
PS these fry will be for sale in a few months once they reach the 3-4 cm mark.
cheers
I have a lot of the colour varieties (common, albino and calico) long and short fin. I used to breed true to form with true to forms. More recently I have been crossing the colour varieties.
My assumption have been:
1. Calico to calico will give either all calico or calico and albino depending if the albino gene is carried by both parents.
2. Calico to albino will give all calico or calico and albino depending if the albino gene is carried by both parents.
3. Common to albino will give all common or common and albino depending of the albino gene is carried by both parents.
4. Longfin to short fin will give mixed results. More long fins will occur if one parent is longfin and the other shortfin parent carries the longfin gene.
5. Longfin to longfin will most likely give me 100% longfin.
Under my experiment I crossed the following
1. Calico short fin male with calico long fin females. 2 spawns seem to have given me 100% calicos. Not sure of longfin or short fin just yet as too small.
2. Longfin albino male crossed with longfin calico female. Seems to have given me 100% calico. Again too small to see if all are longfin.
3. Short fin calico male with longfin albino female. Seems to have given me 100% COMMONS - WTF? Again too small to see if longfin etc.
4. Longfin common with shortfin albino. Seems to have given me 70% albino and 30% common. Again too small to see if longfin etc.
3 above - I cant work out why this has happend. ANyone with any ideas?
thanks folks
PS these fry will be for sale in a few months once they reach the 3-4 cm mark.
cheers