There's definitely a right female. Knowing how that female genetic wants to display itself is a matter of how it wants to play with the male's genetic. You can breed a double row female with a single row male and produce countless numbers of double row. Or breed a double row female with a free marking and 90% are free marking. And this will yield a constant number/ratio as well. But to know that right female, is to do a trial and error from breeding. Everything overseas is set like a pedigree not on papers, but by their own note and connection from one to another. What genetic it contains, what is dominant, what isn't, and etc. But fortunately, USA hobbyist buy fish by how they look. Not by the building blocks on the DNA alone. Which is why I said in the first place that while USA hobbyist can breed some nice fish, consistancy of the nice fish isn't comparable to overseas. And we're talking about 1 pair to 1 pair ratio of consistency here. Not our numbers of pairs v.s. gazillions of theirs. Just can't compete against something that they do as a living...not as a hobby. Kind of like saying you can catch more numbers of bigger fish than commercial fisherman...really? You decide...
But I will tell you guys something about breeding. While your pair may breed consistent offspring, those offspring will not breed what your original pair throws out. Look at the trend of Tan King, Golden Apple, King Diamond, and etc. All those fish have either one or two pair at most. Every single batch is about just the same as one another. But those offspring doesn't throw out the right combination to keep the trend going. This is why I said - good females are all over. But finding the right female is a different story.
