Altum Cross?

[Mugwump]

Yes, if they are anything like heckles it will be the wild male, so that makes sense. I know that Mike (19ghost79) has had some great success lately with altums.

Yes he did....Willie has some of those from Mike....

[wallace]

Cool...they did disappear pretty fast.    I've got the right water already so I wouldn't have to make two kinds of water.

[ghonk]

Yes Mike did great with his,i started to suggest for him to try the Altum X scalare cross,since he already has the fish available.
But he might have thought i was crazy,and looked at it as sacrilegious.

I have wanted to do a Santa Isabel X Domestic cross for several years,with Isabel being the most Altum LIKE.
But finding a proven male that someone would be willing to sell would be very unlikely.
Wild caught  Isabel seem to be as hard to breed as Altum,i know a couple experienced breeders who had no luck at all.   

[wsantia1]

The ones I got from Mike are doing great but they are a long term project. They won't be sexually mature for another 1.5 years. I do have an adult wild one in with them that is most likely ready but it has no mate and I don't know what sex it is.