Escondido X sb Green Texas update

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u forget something...
forget to send to me a lil bit of your fries
 
Love these guys....are any for sale?
 
Jimmy16 said:
omg they're so cute!

would they still be called "sb texas"?
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Yes because they are indeed short bodied fish. The short body gene is dominant, when sb is bred to normal 50% of the fry will be sb. Sb to sb produces 100% sb, in other words these fish will breed true and produce 100% sb fry.
 
Hello, your fishes are super cute. But as long as I know short body gene is recessive and both parents must carry short body gene to have sb offspring I had a few hundred fry from sbXnormal convict, sb consXnormal sajica , normal conXbp and all the fry were normal bodied , also I'm a big fan of sb fish and search the web about sb fish for years and this is the first time that I see a pure blood breed with a short body and results short bodied fry. Can anyone explain me this situation?
 
kabaltah said:
Hello, your fishes are super cute. But as long as I know short body gene is recessive and both parents must carry short body gene to have sb offspring I had a few hundred fry from sbXnormal convict, sb consXnormal sajica , normal conXbp and all the fry were normal bodied , also I'm a big fan of sb fish and search the web about sb fish for years and this is the first time that I see a pure blood breed with a short body and results short bodied fry. Can anyone explain me this situation?
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The short body gene as it is known in blood parrot fish and flowerhorns is indeed (acording to every source I could find on the matter) a dominant trait. Fully 50% of these fry were sb, that simply wouldn't be possible if this was a recessive gene. Are your sb fish part parrot?

I'm very surprised you didn't get any sb fry with the normal con X bp cross, everything I know about bp tells me you should have had 50% sb fry.
 
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