Possible Mates for Salvini?

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brz said:
What about a leucistic hrp

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I know this sounds hypocritical coming from a guy who plans to create hybrids, but I'm really not sure how the genetics work with leucistic HRP's. Is the trait dominant, recessive, whatever? Is it able to be passed along well enough that breeding the offspring together from a Salvini/leucistic HRP pair could cause it to be expressed? Could it cause unforeseen problems down the road? I feel like I'm going to be rolling the dice quite a bit as is, so I'm not sure I want to toss in an extra variable.

Zion and Cichlids is all said:
Well what ever you cross her with will be nice. Will you be selling any fry because I will buy a few?
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I'm going to have to part with quite a few random hybrids as I do this. I plan to be pretty thorough in culling the offspring down to what I personally think is worth keeping for out-crossing/inbreeding/line breeding. I only plan to keep 2-4 offspring from each pairing, whichever ones I find the most appealing. I highly suspect that a lot of what I don't consider worth keeping will still end up decent looking fish. Any offspring that looks too similar to any of the non-hybrids used to create the hybrids won't be spread around under any circumstances. They'll either be painlessly euthanized or become feeders. The offspring that are obviously hybrids I'll happily pass along as long as the person getting them knows what they're getting.

I don't have any experience shipping fish, but between what I can learn on here and from the excellent LFS I go to, I'm sure I can figure it out by the time I choose my male, get them to breed, and grow out the fry enough to start determining what's worth keeping around to grow out more and what's not. I'm going to go about this whole project slow and steady.

Right now my priorities are setting up a couple more tanks and finding and choosing a mate for my Salvini. Once that's done I'll still probably spend awhile growing both fish out before I start letting them breed.
 
when he and my female con bred the offspring were 50/50. pink con could work also?

might try the salvani/lrhp if i can get a tank together
 
brz said:
when he and my female con bred the offspring were 50/50. pink con could work also?

might try the salvani/lrhp if i can get a tank together
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Keep in mind that Convicts and HRPs are closely related, whereas HRP and Salvini are not.
 
I tried the two good LFS's and neither one can get in Cryptoheros sajica or Thorichthys ellioti. :(

Looks like I've got some extra time to set up the tanks I'll need, cause I'm just going to wait for the weather to warm up so I can safely order the Sajica online. Then I get to grow them out until I can figure out which are male and which are female. May as well pick up some Ellioti while I'm at it. I hope my patience holds that long so I don't end up with a Firemouth and/or HRP.

Ah well.
 
Contacted the third LFS in my area to try and get Sajica or Ellioti, and they're going to call me back once they know if they can get them. While I really don't like that store, they're my last option for not having to pay for overnight shipping on top of the cost of the fish. Here's to hope.
 
I've thought about creating mini flowerhorns too but decided to focus on my RT project. Fry from either fish sound like you could get some good looking fish. My suggestion would be to keep all of the fry for as long as you can in case you have some late bloomers.

Btw, the pink or leucestic is a recessive gene so both parents need to carry it but with hybrids you never know.

Good luck and hopefully you can get your project going.

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