Thought it was time for an update on these guys.
I wanted a female for my male FH Titus, so I ordered an appropriate size Green Texas "Escondido" from Jeff Rapps.....
...Forgetting that in my intial phone conversation with him he had told me his largest females would be closer to 3 inches in length, not the 4.5 to 5 inch length I wanted. I believe he tried like hell to send me what I wanted, he chose a fish that had a dark marking in it's dorsal, dorsal and anal fins were fairly rounded etc.
So idiotic me tries to pair this poor thing to a male flowerhorn, after a few weeks of trying all I had managed to do was get them to live in some kind of tense peace, the kind of peace that soooo obviously ain't gonna last. I decided to give them a break.
I put "her" in with a "male" sb Green Texas...
...the results were immediate and unmistakable...
...even an idiot like me could see...not only were they in love but the Escondido was a male and the sb was a female. My only defense is early onset senility.
I've since split them up and moved the babies to another tank as mom and dad looked ready to spawn again. Short body being a dominant gene 50% of the fry are sb, 50% carry it. If you look very closely you can see both long and short body types.
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I wanted a female for my male FH Titus, so I ordered an appropriate size Green Texas "Escondido" from Jeff Rapps.....
...Forgetting that in my intial phone conversation with him he had told me his largest females would be closer to 3 inches in length, not the 4.5 to 5 inch length I wanted. I believe he tried like hell to send me what I wanted, he chose a fish that had a dark marking in it's dorsal, dorsal and anal fins were fairly rounded etc.
So idiotic me tries to pair this poor thing to a male flowerhorn, after a few weeks of trying all I had managed to do was get them to live in some kind of tense peace, the kind of peace that soooo obviously ain't gonna last. I decided to give them a break.
I put "her" in with a "male" sb Green Texas...
...the results were immediate and unmistakable...
...even an idiot like me could see...not only were they in love but the Escondido was a male and the sb was a female. My only defense is early onset senility.
I've since split them up and moved the babies to another tank as mom and dad looked ready to spawn again. Short body being a dominant gene 50% of the fry are sb, 50% carry it. If you look very closely you can see both long and short body types.
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