Meet George (Offically) Progress Thread :-)
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As for age I would say about 1.5-2 years from eggs. Hes pushing about 14' lol. He grew so big in the last few months its insane. He became the alpha and exploded in size because i got rid of the alpha.
A red devil often times is used to make flowerhorns though.
You have pearls and its been fading. It has strong RD genes but I would still classify it as a flowerhorn since its an unknown what it bred with. Even if its a vieja they're known as kamfa flowerhorn.
Your fish is going to have white eyes most likely a kamfa.
This is just my opinion I can't tell you the history of the fish I can only guess with my knowledge. It must have a fader gene and most faders come from RD or Midas. Then it has pearls on there and white eyes so it can be from texas/vieja and many more fish.
Okay after looking at the siblings some are BP shape.
This is for sure I would classify as some sort of mix with a blood parrot. Often flowerhorns are made by BPs.
Whatever it is its nice. I like it. my 14" "MIDAS" fader flowerhorn acts like my 15.5" Midas I used to have. Same personality same color minus my kamfa looks much bigger due its kok lol
Ohhh I think I see what your getting at now, although George isn't a Flowerhorn, he would be genetically on his way to being one, so although he may only be a two species cross, your suggesting I classify him as Flowerhorn, purely for ease to myself and when talking about him? Lol....
Also, would you think I would get a normal lifespan from him?
I absolutely love FH's but I don't get them because I don't want to become attached and then die after the 2nd or 3rd year
Thank you for your input, it's nice to spend time seeing things from others point of view and learning from their experiences
It has genes from many other fish and thats why people love hybrids and some people despise them and want to cull them. I have f1 midas to pure bred fish and then tons of hybrids. I bred them all and frankly breeding hybrids is fun you never know what the outcome will be. I've had fish that look exactly like the father but then I had some that look nothing like the parents just a random fish. The genetics of a hybrid is hard to decipher unless your the one creating it. Only one can guess like how we are. You can call it a flowerhorn or just a hybrid some sort of RD cross but at the end of the day all that doesn't matter. Its the personality and the unknown of the fish which makes it interesting to own.Ohhh I think I see what your getting at now, although George isn't a Flowerhorn, he would be genetically on his way to being one, so although he may only be a two species cross, your suggesting I classify him as Flowerhorn, purely for ease to myself and when talking about him? Lol....
Also, would you think I would get a normal lifespan from him?
I absolutely love FH's but I don't get them because I don't want to become attached and then die after the 2nd or 3rd year
Thank you for your input, it's nice to spend time seeing things from others point of view and learning from their experiences
I have 4 unknown fish right now. All have pearls and look to be f1 red texas. I have a fader who looks like a red texas with all the markings. Was labeled as African cichlids but clearly they had no idea what they are.
I'm growing them to adult sizes to see if in fact they turn into red texas or some sort of flowerhorn mix.
He hasnt got pearls you know? They're just lighter scales like alot of RD's. I think the camera makes them look more defined, my BP's used to have them too like these
The short body of his siblings would suggest BP might have been in the mix but that's not to say RD x Mayan wouldn't produce them. Great looking fish. I would have gone for the short body siblings personally. The one with the blotch on the dorsal is likely to be female.
I don't see any mayan at all could be but some people see bars and they think mayan or festae but there are hundreds of barred amphilophus species A. hoogaboomerum, A. Robersoni A. Flaveolus A. red isletus A. chancho any one of which could be mixed with RD to get a fish like this. For sure it has MIDAS gene cause as far as I know they are the only species that Peel and for sure it's got RD so Amphilophus sp. MiDevil. As far as the uneven pattern of red and white I don't think it's just a blotchy RD it looks to me like a reverse bar like this picture of a reverse barred midas
It's an amph hybrid of some sort we can all agree. Take a fin sample and send it to Jeremy wade lol
