How Could I have been so blind?

[Mugwump]

I got lucky with that group of good HB's from George that I started with.

Now spawn those so I can buy some back please

LOL....you tell her, George......

[LizStreithorst]

The ones I got from you are long gone, George.  These ones with their blood in them are the only ones I have left.

[Jdmcfast]

If there are ever any extras available I am interested too!

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[LizStreithorst]

I'll let y'all know when I start seeing breeding behavior I'll let y'all know.  They're still too young to have started thinking about that stuff.

[Frank The Plumber]

The line is the most important part of the Half black. Fish that have any sort of incomplete line are showing a non expression tendency. Once you have your base phenotypes set you want to focus on keeping the best lined fish as your brood stock. Since the pearls are all minimally het I would keep the Hb's with the best line of Hb separation from them not just the ones expressing the pearl. If they are all het pearl anyway it's better to grab the best expressing Hb's. If you keep the fish with lateral rays or blotches you are going to focus the deleterious that causes that and on the next gens you are going to have a lot more of them and a lesser ratio of expression. Once you lock in your base pheno. cull away all of the deleterious and imediately started building towards pattern strength on the hb line of definition.

The fish that Leslie James had that shows Hb Hb Pb Pb as a barred silver is on Villas City of Angels face book page. Everyone is having a hard time recreating blue expression on these fish. Take a close look at that fish. For those who work with albino and use gold to pop their Pb coloration you will recognize what is in this fish to pop the Pb. I see albino present but I am not certain that I see gold. Pb, Gold and albino make a bright blue fish, Pb and albino make a bright sky blue fish, Pb and gold make a deep blue Pb fish. This makes for a complex situation when creating a Pb Pb Hb Hb angelfish doesn't it? 

[LizStreithorst]

I have two nice fish with a line that is not well defined.  They are not worth keeping, right?

[Frank The Plumber]

Keep all of them if you don't have a lot of fish that are half black. You can work with them to see what they produce. If you have a lot of fish and no space then work towards keeping only the ones with the best line.