different festea fry?

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Mysterious said:
Yeah I have one but he is WAY too skittish to come out. I try and try taking photos but all he does is hide.

Mine is barely 1 inch and has a red tail, stripes and specks of green.

The differences are that festae that have red at young size are a lot higher quality. The ones that don't get red until their 3 inches means they are low quality.
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Not true! Too many variables to account for such as environment, initial nutrition, current diet, aquascaping, confidence, etc. There are no hard and fast rules with Festae. The best looking ones I've ever owned were late bloomers. I owned 2 females who looked like neutral colored males until they hit 11" then turned out looking like this:
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bomillyiam said:
Not true! Too many variables to account for such as environment, initial nutrition, current diet, aquascaping, confidence, etc. There are no hard and fast rules with Festae. The best looking ones I've ever owned were late bloomers. I owned 2 females who looked like neutral colored males until they hit 11" then turned out looking like this:
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got to be the coolest Festae ever.
 
bomillyiam said:
Not true! Too many variables to account for such as environment, initial nutrition, current diet, aquascaping, confidence, etc. There are no hard and fast rules with Festae. The best looking ones I've ever owned were late bloomers. I owned 2 females who looked like neutral colored males until they hit 11" then turned out looking like this:
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That is simply outstanding....,.,any input on where it was from...line bred.....did you notice anything different when it was small?....nice fish!!!!
 
She's not mine. She is what 2 of my previous females turned out looking like. In the late 80's and early 90's females like this were very common. Nowadays not so. I have only seen 2 less than 10" look like this. There is no early indicators that a one will end up looking like this, which is the point I am trying to make. These fish grow slow and there is never anything to point to the end product. Start with the best unrelated F0 or F1 parents you can locate and feed live(worms, shrimp wi/shells, mealworms) as much as possible. BTW, those turquois bars/dorsal would turn black if a suave He-Festae were to catch her attention.
The female in the following video I do own, and as you can see she's been in 1 too many domestic disputes. Thus is the price sometimes paid for breeding them. But her battle scars do not inhibit her ability to reproduce. She don't take her beatins sitting down either. LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs3ZJnQXUag&feature=channel&list=UL
 
As far as my experience goes with juvies, the color will vary depending on mood and enviroment. Seems to be most noticable when they are woken up e.g. when I leave for work of a morning I usually turn on the lights for the grow out tanks and feed the juvies. When the lights are first turned on most of the juvies that are between 10mm->40mm will have very dark stripes and look really pi$$ed off that I've woken them up (parents look the same of a morning). Within a few minutes stripes will fade and they will go back to the usual tan color. In the afternoons when I get home, the same batch of juvies will seem to have a bright red coloration to their fins. This seems to fade a bit after they have had their night feed.
If I ever think of it at that time in the morning I'll try and get some video of it cause it looks great.
 
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