Gold x silver gt grow outs

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MrsE88

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I have a male and female that have stood out from the group of fry I’ve been raising.
The male is at 3” and the female just under that.
Some pictures of the male
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Caught him sleeping when I turned the light on.
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And got a decent side shot. I think he has good potential to get a nuchal hump like his dad. Just waiting to see if his fins will start trailing or not.
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Now for the female.
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The two together
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You can see her egg tube is coming down. They have been flaring and wiggling the past two days now. My intent is not to breed these two together, but they seem hell bent on it.
 
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Jexnell said:
Great looking little GT's. Funny how fish change our plans all the time.
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Thank you. Yes, they do have a way of changing things up.
As much as I don’t want them to breed, I think it will be good for my males development. Since the female has gotten eggy his overall appearance has improved. No fry will be kept though.
 
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astrocreep said:
Dude they look great. Mine do not show much color in fins at all, and my biggest is pushing 3" for sure.

Im jealous
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Thank you.

I just took the two out of the group that I felt had the best possibly at having white seams. I knew the one was a male, but the female kept me guessing for a bit. And their seams aren’t white, but I’m kinda liking how they look. Not a mix I will do again in the future though.
Keeping them separate from everyone else has paid off. They have improved so much.



My male is reminding me more and more of his dad. I think he’ll have the nice tall body too.


On another note...
I’ve been trying to ask myself what I wanted out of the silver/gold pairing. All it really did was muddy the lines. Pretty pointless.
If you want silvers just breed silvers.
If you want golds just breed golds.

So what was it?

I guess partly the curiosity if you’d end up with a mix of silvers and golds from one pair.
Now that I think about that it’s like breeding a lab and poodle and expecting to get a mix of pure bred labs and pure bred poodles in the same litter. That’s just not how genetics work.
And I honestly have never been able to fully understand genetics, just Incase that wasn’t already clear;)

This has made me feel guilty.
So I will not be breeding my silver and gold anymore.

The only thing that breeding the two did accomplish for me is giving me a male that I feel is *nicer* then the males my other female produced. Even the female in my opinion is better. But I’m sure the same thing could have been done with a better quality gold female. I just have yet to see one in my area.

I’m going to stop with myself now, I’ve ranted enough. Haha.
Its just something that’s been on my mind.
 
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MrsE88 MrsE88

I agree with you 99.9% ^^ but.......

What if the white seam is just a recessive gene? In that case, at least in my opinion (knowing nothing about genetics either), the pool would only be muddied with more possibilities of passing on the recessive gene. I don't think the DNA of a white seam vs. gold seam would be as different on the level of a lab vs. a poodle.

That being said, I do agree with you as far as if you want white seams then just breed white seams. But what if you do that and Gold seams still pop up? Then one could argue that the gene is recessive because despite having white seamed parents, you would still have a dominant gene of gold seamed fry prevailing.....

Thats why I need your white seamed female and we can settle this right now!!
 
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astrocreep said:
MrsE88 MrsE88

I agree with you 99.9% ^^ but.......

What if the white seam is just a recessive gene? In that case, at least in my opinion (knowing nothing about genetics either), the pool would only be muddied with more possibilities of passing on the recessive gene. I don't think the DNA of a white seam vs. gold seam would be as different on the level of a lab vs. a poodle.

That being said, I do agree with you as far as if you want white seams then just breed white seams. But what if you do that and Gold seams still pop up? Then one could argue that the gene is recessive because despite having white seamed parents, you would still have a dominant gene of gold seamed fry prevailing.....

Thats why I need your white seamed female and we can settle this right now!!
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Haha. Perhaps if we were closer I’d let her visit for a couple months. Lol Don’t think I could give her up:p

Since I haven’t bred two silvers before I’m not sure if golds would pop up. That is something I hadn’t thought about. Now I’m horribly curious......

I don’t suppose anyone reading this has bred silvers, have they?
Now I’m really wishing I would have scooped up the male. Grrr....

Maybe I’ll get lucky and find a nice silver male again.
 
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