This is a very aggressive fish and IMO has killer finnage and good color. If I'm seeing wrong please let me know. The fish will be two months old on the 24th.
..got my vote....gorgeous
Two months old. WOW!!! ;D
Very nice Liz, I could live with a display tank full of those. ;)
Dennis
At what point do the eyes turn red? Both parents and all their sibs have perfect red eyes.
Quote from: LizStreithorst on January 20, 2014, 12:54:38 PM
At what point do the eyes turn red? Both parents and all their sibs have perfect red eyes.
If the other fry have already changed to red eyes, then he's been left out...unless he changes in the next month, or so..??...
None of the other have red eyes yet. With all their close relatives red eyed, surely they will change at some point.
Are you sure about the age?.....quarter body size by 2 mos is really good.....1/2 buck???....are the others the same size?
larger than quarter. not quite half dollars. Free swimming Nov. 24, 2913. Not all are that size, but several are.
cool, I get a few real fast growers off certain pairs too......get those separated as the all get bigger, they'll make a nice line.. ;D...great finage too...
I suppose I need to net him out and put him on a damp towel with a tape measure and take a pic. Perhaps I have hopeful eyes.
Quote from: LizStreithorst on January 20, 2014, 02:40:07 PM
I suppose I need to net him out and put him on a damp towel with a tape measure and take a pic. Perhaps I have hopeful eyes.
no need to put the poor fish through that....LOL...a guestimate is fine... ;D
That angel is a beauty.
I and already moistened the towel in tank water and was about to net out the fish when Boozer showed up to fix the roof and put back the ceiling in my fish room that he'd built for me. I've been waiting months for this. When I looked at the fish in question after he'd left I saw the truth. The fish is larger than a quarter by a fair bit, but not close to half dollar. Sorry. I didn't mean to tell an untruth.
Quote from: LizStreithorst on January 20, 2014, 04:06:43 PM
I and already moistened the towel in tank water and was about to net out the fish when Boozer showed up to fix the roof and put back the ceiling in my fish room that he'd built for me. I've been waiting months for this. When I looked at the fish in question after he'd left I saw the truth. The fish is larger than a quarter by a fair bit, but not close to half dollar. Sorry. I didn't mean to tell an untruth.
Good heavens, Liz....it's a fish tale... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Mama Bear just netted out her favorite fish and took a decent pic of it with both a tape and a coin. Body is larger than a quarter, right Mug? Trust me, I've done this lots with Discus. It does the fish no harm. I did it this time because I was accused of telling fish tales.
Poor guy....LOL...did you give him a snack for his effort? We believed you, Liz.... ;D
The stupid fish is well cared for, you can see it. I did it no harm.
Sorry I got my hackles up. I thought that I had been accused of telling an untruth and after that I couldn't help myself.
Quote from: LizStreithorst on January 20, 2014, 05:47:03 PM
The stupid fish is well cared for, you can see it. I did it no harm.
Sorry I got my hackles up. I thought that I had been accused of telling an untruth and after that I couldn't help myself.
LOL...relax, you're amongst friends..remember?.....*smooch*....and it's not a stupid fish....it's a key to your future lines ;D.....It does look like the Zebra is in there, if so....Silver, and Zebra, half blacks would be great....then just split the lines down the road.....PB???....I don't think so.....the Zebra brings some great colors too....Franks murky shadow is just a rate of HB expression IMHO,,,not a precursor to lots of hidden genes...if there was a smokey in there...you'd have seen it by now..Smokey expresses in single dose...it's an incomplete dominant...if a gold...you'd see golds by now..gold in double dose would mask the zebra, and likely the HB too...too many bars showing for a stripeless gene too, so it's not a ghost.....you've got a good thing going to work with...really ;D
Thanks from my fish breeding heart, Mug. I posted the fish elsewhere because I needed more than, "nice fish". As far as the genetics of these fish, I've been piddling with them for 6 generations. If there were gold in there I'd have seen it by now, same with the other rare genes.
Quote from: LizStreithorst on January 20, 2014, 06:13:43 PM
Thanks from my fish breeding heart, Mug. I posted the fish elsewhere because I needed more than, "nice fish". As far as the genetics of these fish, I've been piddling with them for 6 generations. If there were gold in there I'd have seen it by now, same with the other rare genes.
Yep, you would have ;D.....I just made a post that you might like too....about the term/word epistasis....give it a glance
I read it. It's a little bit over my head but I mostly get it. Some things aren't possible with some crosses I think. What jumped out most to me is that my hb pearl scales don't have the disgusting floppy finnage of the ones he pictured. Sorry, but my eye was most drawn to that pic. My hb pearlscales are better.
In the future I will try to be less needy of validation and trust my eye. Good to hear that I'm on the right track.