I heard about that.. don't recall where. They very with more red or more blue depending on collection point (but honestly, who's collecting meeki). My opinion calls for a strong balance of both colors. I really enjoy the blue spangling against the grey coloration. As well as strong red along the whole lower portion of the body. Its very pleasing to me. I like what the op is doing, although, I think its hard to "perfect" the species. But the idea of bringing the species back to having strong colors, good genes, and healthy shape is absolutly something that I love. I feel that with the thousands of fry I have produced from my pair, I have helped in this manner.
I actually have a good friend of mine who has been pestering me to spawn these guys again. I plan on doing it soon, and raising up a fair number of fry. I would be more then happy to swap some fry with the op, so as to keep blood lines of strong specimen, breeding together. I would like to take a handfull of my fry, and a handfull of each of his pairs fry, and spawning them together. And then letting genes pick the best traits of the now much more diverse genes. Just a thought.
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