2013 mfk Red Texas show
- Thread starter the animal guy
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Odd that you would say that. In pure carpintis only females & very young males have a black mark in the dorsal. Also noticed that trait in my hybrid carpintis, no male over the age of a month or two retained this marking.
Red Texas still very much carry this trait of the marking on the dorsal. And I've notice that many of them will carry the marking on the dorsal upwards into 5 inches...especially for one that have yet fade or has only pre-faded.
I've mostly worked with pure bred carpintis, even my sb hybrids were a very high percentage pure carpintis, I would definitely consider them green texas, not red. I've never worked with rt personally. I'm guessing the midas/red devil genes (or parrot genes) change the rules about the dark dorsal marking. So odd, in my greens I always could rely on this sexing method as a sure indicator, although I always vented them as well.
Growing out some fry from a very kokky cyangutattus female X carpintis male at the moment. I'm thinking one, or both, of the parents are hybrids. The mom had such a huge kok for a female cyan, and one of the 4 fry has what appears to be somewhat of a parrot face...too young to be sure. It will be interesting to see if my girls have the dark dorsal marking.
I know what you mean. That one is definitely a female by her bloth though. Males dont have it that way
Now that's what I like, and trying to produce!my boy hybrid RT x king kamfa white eye
since you are in socal, I suggest you go check out a huge RT-kamfa that is really nice at Tong's near whittier blvd. It is HUGE and NicE. In my years of FHs I say it's a must see because of the size and goodness of that fish.
and you should breed this bad boy. I do regret not breeding a few good fish I had in the past.
