Fader Bifasciatus
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I literally have well over a thousand fry. I'm running four separate tanks all batches are about two weeks apart. I will begin culling them out when they start developing color. The survival rate and yield that i'm getting is very good. There has not been any deformities. All fish are very strong and healthy. A very impressive species of fish.
Well I want to pick out the ones that show the trait then separate them. The others will most likely become feeders. The main goal is to strengthen the bloodline. So breed the male offspring back to the mother or among the other siblings to stabilize the gene. What they did with the flowerhorn....
Ruck Fules;2175467; said:
I have a female bifa from Rio Chacamax and a male Pink Bifa. From what I was told, it's not a hybrid as is just another of the many bifa variants. I visited the previous owner of The Aquarium after the SOCAL Meet and he has some "wild caught red Bifa" in his pond and they look amazing.
The red Bifa and your pink Bifa both came from the same bloodline.
link to that thread:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...pcorn-load-warning.170858/page-6#post-2177920
I have a female bifa from Rio Chacamax and a male Pink Bifa. From what I was told, it's not a hybrid as is just another of the many bifa variants. I visited the previous owner of The Aquarium after the SOCAL Meet and he has some "wild caught red Bifa" in his pond and they look amazing.
The red Bifa and your pink Bifa both came from the same bloodline.
link to that thread:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...pcorn-load-warning.170858/page-6#post-2177920
From what I know is that the father is a wild caught fish that was imported through polomax and later sold to ghani. Only relation to Conkel is that someone said conkel sells to that store. The father however is a wild caught fish.
bloodline goes like this
Father (original fader) x Mother (rio Chacamax)
Offspring is fader daughter (fader red bifa x Rio chacamax)
then daughter (fader red bifa x Rio chacamax) x Male (red bifa)
and offspring are now (fader red bifa x Rio chacamax x red bifa)
Hopefully these offspring can be bred back to the mother to strengthen the blood line.
bloodline goes like this
Father (original fader) x Mother (rio Chacamax)
Offspring is fader daughter (fader red bifa x Rio chacamax)
then daughter (fader red bifa x Rio chacamax) x Male (red bifa)
and offspring are now (fader red bifa x Rio chacamax x red bifa)
Hopefully these offspring can be bred back to the mother to strengthen the blood line.
Imported by who? From all info gathered Conkel was the most obvious answer. So that goes right back to my original comments. Easy for someone to call a long gone dead fish, wild caught, but if it came from Don Conkel during that period I would be more inclined to call it pond raised. This stuff isn't top secret, if one is buying a wild fish its pretty much a no brainer to find out the source.
