Honduran red points

[Showtimekev]

My super blue gen 2 male is cranking out fry like crazy. I moved him to the main tank with the green line, and of course he made himself comfortable with one of the green females and had fry. At least now I have my blue/green line back. Here are his kids. Still very young and can’t see their colors yet.

 

[therfish]

Not as nice as some of your guy's fish but this is the pair I'm focusing on for now. Stripeless HRP.

 

[Showtimekev]

T therfish your patternless HRP are gorgeous! That’s a nice chunky male you’ve got there. My gen 1 female was patternless, which set the foundation for my gen 2 HRP to be so blue. If you can find some HRP with stripes, try to breed them with your patternless variety. The fry might come out pretty nice.

 

[HybridFinatic]

Finally got my Bioaquatix male paired with a locally acquired blood female. They on eggs now. Babies soon

 

[FINWIN]

Interesting, all my 'blanks' later developed a washed out stripe pattern.

 

[Showtimekev]

Interesting, all my 'blanks' later developed a washed out stripe pattern.

I had a beautiful “patternless” female a couple years back that I was going to use for my breeding project, but she got stuck inside of a large shell and died. She had lots of purple on her fins and I hadn’t seen that before. It’s sad thinking about what the fry could’ve looked like.

 

[therfish]

My stripeless pair has a small batch of wigglers that just hatched out yesterday evening. They have bred before but they've always been in a community tank so their fry never made it. This is their first time breeding in their own tank so hopefully I'm able to successfully raise the fry as I intend to leave the pair in there until the fry are free swimming and eating on their own.

 

[HybridFinatic]

Finally got my Bioaquatix male paired with a locally acquired blood female. They on eggs now. Babies soon

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So unfortunately nearly all the fry swam through the grate of the breeder box as I guess they were small enough and were eaten by my Cuban x HRP fry in the main tank. But 8 or so fry seemed to have stayed in the breeder box and I think they are just the very few that were too big for the grate of this very young now week old batch. So I’ll be sticking with those few and hopefully raising them all up successfully. I’d just get another batch but after I pulled the fry originally I quickly separated that pair and replaced that setup with other growout fry that needed a tank upgrade. I guess I’m ok with it. Obviously sucks but it makes the selecting and culling job a piece of a cake and much easier on my ocd brain. Just got too stick with these ones. I’ll keep updated.

 

[Hybridfish7]

So unfortunately nearly all the fry swam through the grate of the breeder box as I guess they were small enough and were eaten by my Cuban x HRP fry in the main tank. But 8 or so fry seemed to have stayed in the breeder box and I think they are just the very few that were too big for the grate of this very young now week old batch. So I’ll be sticking with those few and hopefully raising them all up successfully. I’d just get another batch but after I pulled the fry originally I quickly separated that pair and replaced that setup with other growout fry that needed a tank upgrade. I guess I’m ok with it. Obviously sucks but it makes the selecting and culling job a piece of a cake and much easier on my ocd brain. Just got too stick with these ones. I’ll keep updated.

Cuban x hrp fry????
Did you see the fry swimming outside the breeder box or did they just disappear? I try not to keep fry in breeder boxes, especially with fish that can eat them, as while they aren't big enough to slip through the grates themselves, they are just small enough to get sucked through by something bigger. This is especially a problem when the parents are in the tank, as they'll smell their fry and try to get them back, which usually ends up ripping the fry in half as they can't completely fit through.

 

[therfish]

Another pair of Honduran red point cichlids I have from different two other lines had babies that hatched yesterday too. I just siphoned them out and will grow them out to see how they turn out.