RED TUX SAILFIN SWORDTAILS

[ghonk]

Picked up a couple pair a few weeks ago,here's one of the males at about 5=6 months old.
Still has a lot of growing to do,the males from this line get huge dorsals as they mature.

[Mugwump]

Pretty fish.....who breeds those now......?...local?...Gene?

[PaulineMi]

Very pretty Greg.

[ghonk]

Thanks Jon and Pauline,i got them from Mike Gibbs.They throw Red Tux,Gold Tux,Red and Red Wags.
Mike mixes his breeders for variety,i'm going to separate mine by color type,i assume they will breed true if  bred to the same,have to read some more on swordtail genetics.     

[ghonk]

One of Mike's adult males.

[LizStreithorst]

Very pretty fish.  Do they breed true?

[ghonk]

If you breed hifin to hifin you will get 50% hifin,25% reg fin and 25% that have a DOUBLE DOSE of the gene,a double dose is fatal and the offspring are born dead.

Hifin x reg fin produce 50% hifin and 50% Reg fin.

[ghonk]

Chart

[LizStreithorst]

Sounds very much like the snake skin gene in Discus.

[ghonk]

Sailfins are hifins that have dorsal ray branching,like in a wifi angel.

[wiggs]

Those are very pretty, Jon and I used to have Brick red swords when we first had fish.

[ilroost]

Very nice!!

[ghonk]

 VID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka8NJRByFxs&feature=em-upload_owner

[wsantia1]

Those are really nice.

[Mugwump]

Very nice.....I remember our red brick sword tails from years ago....haven't really seen any in a while...