Red Zebra babies?

[Fish_Man_Dan]

do baby red zebras have vertical stripes when really little? my female red zebra has a habit of ignoring the male zebras and mating with my male kennyi. I saw the male red zebra (blue) courting her, and thirty minutes later, she was egg laden. the thing is, the kennyi didn't show interest in her until after the breeding, and the new babies look like hybrids to me, but i've never raise pure red zebra babies w/ blue males... here are pictures :


this is the father (suspected)


suspected father again


this is the mom.. she looks a little skinnier than usual in this picture... she's pure

is the dad a wild type red zebra? i'll also post pictures of the babies soon, but they're so small...

 

[Fish_Man_Dan]

Here are the babies:





This was taken without flash



this is what the orange ones look like normally...

the picture below is of a kennyi x red zebra from a previous spawning, same mother; this baby was almost 2 cm:


these pictures were all taken today (except for the hybrid baby), and all the babies (again, except for the hybrid baby) are just under 1 centimeter...

PLEASE HELP!!! some of the babies i'll be distributing and i want to be sure if they're hybrids or not, to be able to accurately tell the prospective new owners.... and for myself....

 

[Red Devil]

Here are the babies:





This was taken without flash



this is what the orange ones look like normally...

the picture below is of a kennyi x red zebra from a previous spawning, same mother; this baby was almost 2 cm:


these pictures were all taken today (except for the hybrid baby), and all the babies (again, except for the hybrid baby) are just under 1 centimeter...

PLEASE HELP!!! some of the babies i'll be distributing and i want to be sure if they're hybrids or not, to be able to accurately tell the prospective new owners.... and for myself....

i would say you have a nice breeding pair of zebras and you have purebred zebra babies.. the light ones are females the blue ones are males... most species will only breed with a different species if their own kind is not around.. i say your two zebras are parents..And it looks like your kennyi bred as well ,..do you have males and females of Kennyi?

 

[Fish_Man_Dan]

no female kennyi, the hybrid came from the red zebra's mouth, and i saw the kennyi courting her before... the hybrid i'm sure of, it's the others i was wondering about... i didn't know baby RZs had blue stripes though...

Thanks for your input! makes me more confident

 

[Fish_Man_Dan]

hmmm, just noticed, the baby RZs have 8 or 9 stripes (both the blues and the oranges); the hybrid only has 7... could that be the giveaway? pure kennyi only have 5 stripes... ( at least mine does...)

 

[Red Devil]

hmmm, just noticed, the baby RZs have 8 or 9 stripes (both the blues and the oranges); the hybrid only has 7... could that be the giveaway? pure kennyi only have 5 stripes... ( at least mine does...)

Its really hard to tell with the count of the stripes.. yes you probably do have some hybrids mixed in with the pure ... how many babies all together.. keeping a few hybrids is not a biggy .. just as long as they do not breed... some turn out astonishingly beautiful...

 

[Fish_Man_Dan]

well, i have about 20-25 babies all from one batch (the one in question) and a few hybrids from other batches... the newest babies (the original ones i was asking about) are in their own tank only with some duboisi fry.

 

[mike dunagan]

If your unsure I would ditch this set and get the kenyi out and then you will be sure.

 

[fox3]

When our blue male zebra spawns with the female we get both orange and grayish black fry. I think the greyish ones are males. When our orange male spawns with her they are all orange fry. And when our kenyi or bumblebee spawn with her the fry have dark bars.

We leave her to spit in the tank and the champsochromis makes a quick meal of most of them over a few weeks with sometimes one or three surviving to adults.