Whoopie!
I thought we'd lost it!
so glad it's back up and running
Type: Posts; User: Pterophyllum
Whoopie!
I thought we'd lost it!
so glad it's back up and running
Sad news. He was one of the few remaining people trying to inject some activity into this site.
Me too!
Hi, I'm in the UK, so can't help you with breeder suggestions, but welcome to the forum.
Well a month and a half on and it's too early to make too many definitive statements, but there are some things I can say...
There are a number of pinoy offspring, but so far I haven't spotted a...
Here are some better shots of him...
https://stored-edge.slickpic.com/MjIxMTIxZjdmYzdjOGQ,/20190917/MTY0MDAyMTBjZmY3/p/1600/IMG_4172.jpg...
Still no luck with this one yet. But I'm going to keep trying, this photo shows why....
I was trying to take some photos of a Bulgarian Green, but this photo really shows the glitter on this...
https://stored-edge.slickpic.com/MjIxMTIxZjdmYzdjOGQ,/20190803/MTYzMDgwMTdkZGQ3/p/1400/IMG_3116.jpg
Going all the way back to 2017 and post #6 and batch #1, you may recall that I got just 1 veiltail Bulgarian green fish from 64 Bulgarian Green offspring in a mixed batch where both parents were het....
No Dice,
they started fighting, have moved him to the tank in my dining room, hopefully he'll chose a mate, or vice versa, and once they've bonded I'l put them into a breeding tank.
I've paired him with a different female and at least they're not fighting, but no eggs yet.
The problem is I have far too many potential breeders, and far too few tanks to put them in.
He has put on a bit of weight though, so I will try again soon.
Sadly not yet. I tried him with a couple of different females and both just beat him up. I'll try him again when I have a suitable younger/smaller partner for him.
This is definitely a male, his breeding tube was down the other day.
When it comes to selecting fish as potential breeders I find it really helps to look for negatives, "That ones got a misshapen fin", "I don't like the body shape of this one", and so on. I find...
in post #44 I said...
sometimes these things work out quicker than others. i paired the female with a veiltail paraiba koi ...
Quick question to anyone with experience of raising albino fry.
In general I like to let my fish parent raise, but albinos seem to struggle with this presumably because their eye sight isn't as...
Just a couple more
if both parents are D/Gm, Given the black tail band this can't be Gm/Gm and most have at least one Dark gene, but it doesn't look quite like any of Raiko's photos of blushing...
This one is probably my favourite
https://www.slickpic.com/pic/url/15639852/MjIxMTIxZjdmYzdjOGQ,20181130MTU2Mzk4NTJmY2Nm/photo/1400...
Now on to batch #3
I have also selected 14 fish from this batch to grow on as potential breeders, most of these are blushing. As I have limited tank space it helps to keep track of which fish are...
Back to the Bulgarian Greens.
I kept back about 15 from Batch #2 as potential breeders, most I selected were classic "BSP's" as both parents were homozygous for pb, all are pb/pb.
I also kept a...
This is probably worthy of another thread, but personally I suspect that pearlscale may have an influence, it also seems to be associated with fish that have lemon shaped rather than round bodies,...
The more I work with this gene the more puzzled I become... :confused:
Batch #3 are disappointingly slow growing, I've recently moved about 15 mostly paraibas to a seperate tank to try and grow...
One further thing to mention...
In post #17 I highlighted that from a mixed batch which included 64 Bulgarian Greens, I only got 1 rather than the 30+ bg/bg veiltails that I was expecting, and...
That looks like an impressive site, I shall investigate further....