Fertile male Parrotcon x white con

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These two just had some eggs hatch, hoping the wrigglers make it to free swimming phase.

I confirmed this male fertile with a female parrotcon as well.

My goal is to make some white parrotcons, and SB white cons ‘jellybean’ convicts that used to be common as dyed fish.

I also want to cross him with a rainbow cichlid, and an SB red/white fader female.

 

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Update: The fry became free swimming today

 

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I think I got lucky, and the male convict may have the leucistic gene as I had hoped.

Some of the babies are noticeably darker than others. I think a majority will be white cons, and hopefully at least a few white parrot cons.

 

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Update on the fry, definitely a mix of white and striped fry.

Just hoping some of the white ones turn out short body or better yet, with the parrot face.

 

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Some better close ups of the fry

 

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Great project and excellent pictures! Those cons work fast, glad you are making progress.
There are some sb fry for sure, I would pull the ones with really wonky spines before they get fleshy and less transparent. I think I see one that has tail bent straight down. Im culling a shortbody strain of goldfish now and looks like I have 3 keepers out of 400 fry... I envy this spawn lol.

 

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Great project and excellent pictures! Those cons work fast, glad you are making progress.
There are some sb fry for sure, I would pull the ones with really wonky spines before they get fleshy and less transparent. I think I see one that has tail bent straight down. Im culling a shortbody strain of goldfish now and looks like I have 3 keepers out of 400 fry... I envy this spawn lol.

Thanks! How can I spot the SB ones? They all look the same to me I don’t have a trained eye yet.

Some are definitely growing much faster than the others.

Goldfish are another project I wanted to get into, especially now that there’s a growing market for high quality collector pieces.

 

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Should be able to recognize the shortbodies if you stare at them long enough lol.
Check it out, after 14 years of breeding these things I have a sb pleco. Was obviously different from siblings at 1/4". Going to try to line breed into a strain, possibly getting crucified by pleco fans in the process.
Keep updating, cant wait to see them at 2"

 

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14 years! That’s dedication very cool.

After staring at the pics and in person I do see the SB ones, there’s less than I hoped for, especially the white SBs but they’re in there.

I’ve seen one guy on YT breeding these, he’s a lot further along but I’ll catch up.

I eventually want to mix in my rainbow cichlids and cutteri. Also need to pick up some nanoluteus

 

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Nice. I did the same thing but with a SB pink con female. Although I'm pretty sure what you are calling a parrotcon is a SB HRP (or HRP con mix). The offspring of mine look mostly like regular striped cons with slight SB. However the fry from SB Hrp to regular con were SB. I have a load of them in my pond.