HRP fry - several different colors?

[jruss]

Hi All,

I'm new here, so I apologize in advance if I break any etiquette.

I have a breeding pair of HRP's, and their first successful batch of fry is about 2 months old. There are 4 different color variations -- "normal", "blue-ish", and two variations of white/leucistic. I'm just wondering if this is common or if I have something rare/strange going on here . All of my searching on HRP's shows leucistic, but I've never seen the "blue-ish" ones or the more translucent of the leucistic varieties. I would say the fry are about 50% normal, 25% white, and 25% blue.

Attached are some pictures of the parents as well as the different colors of fry.

Thanks much,
Jason

 

[Modest_Man]

Those don't look like HRP's to me.

 

[convicts94]

Yooooooooo i want my cons to give birth to frys like that. Anyone know how can u breed them to get these kinds fry?

 

[izzy_here]

I want several of your fry, or do you have any of breeding size (3in or more) available from this line?

pm me if any are for sale.

I don't know how pure they are but I do know what color's the hrp's you have are producing. Normal, high blue normal, luecistic as in pink convict luecistic gene, and Platinum luecistic gene. Never saw any that produced so many color's.

 

[Dom Shabil]

The same thing happened to my Convict pair about 7 months ago. I 2 would like 2 know why this happens!!!!!!!!

 

[Jmart159]

That is pretty awesome. Congrats.

 

[Jason_S]

I agree with modest man...those aren't HRP. they are most likely cons crossed with HRP which are commonly sold as "blue convicts" or sometimes I'm sure passed off as HRP's. This would explain the resulting fry.

the normal color for HRP's is a bluish color. They look like elongated blue convicts and the males have red finnage/tail.

 

[Sab_Fan]

I agree that they don't look like HRPs . . . as to color differences, I have juvies from a Carpintis x Pink Convict, and some are greyish-blue, others are yellowish . . . my guess is your fish may also be hybrids of some sort

 

[jruss]

Hi All,

Thanks for the responses. I guess I wasn't aware of how uncommon it is to see this many color variations in one batch of fry. It seems like the parents are always guarding a batch of eggs in the main tank, however I don't pull them out or separate them so the eggs usually don't last long (I think it's the pleco that gets them). I'll try to pull them out into a separate tank and see if I get another multi-colored batch.

Also...they were sold to me as HRP by the lfs -- what characteristics of HRP are you not seeing? From everything I can find, the major difference is the red in the tails and fins, plus more colorful overall (blues, oranges). The camera flash washed the red out pretty bad, plus it comes and goes depending if they're breeding or their mood or who knows what. Just curious.

THanks!

 

[MonteSS]

Ya. I dont think they are pure HRP. The female looks totaly Con to me. Her parents may have been regular and pink so she may have both genes causing the multicolored fry.

The fry should have all the genes and produce similar looking fry.

Still cool though.

...Bill