Another simple project.

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
izzy_here said:
Thanks,
I too prefer the more refined look, normal head/face, normal fins...no extreme trailers, slightly longer body than most parrots..many similarities to kk.

The shape you like so much should come the first time you cross a pure fish to parrot, all the fry will be different, bp, kk, normal, nearly normal, etc, check them daily untill you recognize the fry with the desired body type. REMOVE those fish IMMEDIATELY, many times sb fish cannot compete with normal length siblings...this isn't such an issue when crossing sb to sb.

I'll be taking some video of my sb Green Texas fry tonight, look for an update post on them some time tomorrow. I think you'd find them interesting, the ones I'm holding back for the next gen in particular.
Click to expand...

They look really nice! And the fact that you're producing fertile SB tex is awesome!
 
Thanks cohazard..I just feed them, lol, they do all the work; )

Producing healthy, fertile hybrids has been, and always will be, my number one goal with every strain I breed. No one does that, I guess folks think it's not lucrative, I say bullpuckey. An email I sent to a friend explaining why...

Hm, how to explain...so many reasons I want them to be fertile...
If I'm going to sell them, and I am, then I want them to be self-reproducing. I'll always have more without having to maintain many types/sizes of fish. This is also a trait I desire for myself as a breeder/collector, I'll always have them without having to go through the time, trouble and expense of re-creating them. At that point it would be very easy to out cross to a pure species, produce a female, and then cross her back to the existing dominant male from my strain. I could keep adding species/colors/patterns more easily in that manner,out crossing would prevent them from becoming infertile from inbreeding too of course. I'm thinking out cross every three to four generations, three or four generations could take years if I wanted it to, Paratheraps and Vieja are long-lived.
Click to expand...

And those are just the practical reasons...wouldn't a tank with a male/female pair resembling the first pic in this thread look awesome? How bout that pair sitting on 600 fry? Yeah...like that.
 
With the texas it's even easier of course, theres a large gene pool of captive carpintis in the US, the regional varients alone are legion. Adding new blood to my sb gt strain will likely never be a problem.
 
I subscribed to this thread :)
I can only see good things coming from this. I think producing fertile hybrids is important too. If there infertile you'll have to start from scratch every time. With fertile hybrids you can add additional species to the mix then back cross them to your original fertile hybrid and make fertile hybrids again. Also your able to inbreed and refine the hybrid breed to exactly what you want. I ultimately want to do something similar, except in the opposite direction, long, parachromis type bodies with texas pearling, and maybe throw some bifa or syn into the mix. Is it weird I have been dreaming about this? haha
But I've been all talk and you have some actual fish to show for lol.
Im gonna have to live vicariously through what you write for now ;)
 
I dreamed about it too boyo, and really I didn't step up too much until recently.

I bred a hybrid to a normal fish, thats the entire story of this strain so far, thats not a very complicated breeding plan.

I just knew the female was roughly 50% pure if not more, the degree of resemblance to pure Texas was too compelling. Also, the female was just a stage in a breeders rt/srt strain, the seller/importer revealed his supplier/breeder had told him this. I also knew that rt males are fertile with 62% carpintis blood. Sort of a no-brainer that I'd get what I was after first time out, if she'd been only 25% carpintis it would have worked.

The continuation of this project, and the beginning of one other I have, will be juuust a littlemore ambitious. It's gonna be so fun, lol!

What species in particular were you thinking? P. friedrichsthalii, loisellei and motaguensis seem to be slightly trampy and will throw themselves at a large number of species, Texas and Vieja look good crossed to parachromis, midas with parachromis looks outstanding.
 
So I decided to get a midas again, the same one in fact that I've owned before. Funny how things come back around..paired with my kk looking syn X parrot he may throw some Rose Queens. No pics yet, he needs some tlc and NLS, before I take his pic.
 
The Mi-devil and the syn, parrot are bonding fairly well, he was a better choice at this time. The bifas is just too young.
 
You have some sweet hybrid projects. Thread subscribed.
The first pic (your end goal) is similar to one of my parrots.
 
well I promised pics or a vid of the midevil, still not looking his best, so pale and skinny..but apparently he's feeling well enough..

[video=youtube;X7TEXvwzKJ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7TEXvwzKJ4&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

Should have eggs in the next few days.

The way his kok looks after only a few days I'm thinking/hoping it has some potential. If not I'll be using bifas and possibly synspila in the future anyways so it doesn't really matter.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom