hi my severums have had fry about 2 and a half months ago now and still havent got any colour.they are crossed between a gold severum and a red headed severum i got told it should have only takin a month 2 get colour.any ideas or answers would be helpful thanks.
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How are we meant to answer a topic that isn't a question?
So you have two Severum, a Gold and a Rotkiel, and they've interbred (Tsk Tsk), and two months on the fry aren't colouring up?
What size are they? What are you feeding them?
So you have two Severum, a Gold and a Rotkiel, and they've interbred (Tsk Tsk), and two months on the fry aren't colouring up?
What size are they? What are you feeding them?
what exactly do you mean by "coloring up"? Some gold severums have very little other colors when as adults.
pictures of parents and the fry?
pictures of parents and the fry?
Sorry Japes, I know your the sev man, but I don't understand the tsk tsk? Gold are gold from birth, period. Your green/red heads will be a mix. I rather doubt you get much in the way of gold spotted red sevs. Of course this all depends on these fish heritage, which you don't know.
To try to answer the question directly: the golds should be 100% gold now, the greens/red heads should show "slight" colors in about 3-4 months.
This all depends on your care of course.
To try to answer the question directly: the golds should be 100% gold now, the greens/red heads should show "slight" colors in about 3-4 months.
This all depends on your care of course.
The 'tsk tsk,' I am sure, is becuase gold sev's and rotties are differant species of sev's at this point and time, thus it really should be in the hybrid section.
Bobears;2831818; said:
I'm hardly the Sev man, I keep a couple of Severum and that's it.
The 'tsk tsk' is a personal issue I have with interbreeding Severums. Heros sp. 'Red Shoulders' (aka Rotkiels) are currently a different species of Severum than your typical Heros efasciatus line-bred Gold colour morph (What's referred to as a Gold Severum). I may not exactly be up to date with the exact genetics, but currently in Australia we have a lot of Gold Severum breeders mixing greens back into their Gold Lines (which at a guess would end up with 50/50 fry) to get some new blood and hopefully a higher quality.
Unfortunately this means that getting your hands on a quality (and by quality I don't mean aesthetically pleasing, I mean pure with the correct characteristics and features) isn't easy - and probably not possible.
Take my green for example.
Nice looking fish, can be pretty green when he wants to be as well - but it's not a 'natural' Heros efasciatus.
japes;2831999; said:
I certainly agree with the rationale here, 100%. At this point I'm not sure a clear seperation with severums will ever occur in the hobby to the point we can easily go buy each as an individual, rotkeil, heros e., with ease. One can dream. My questioning your statement was more about my own lowered expectation concerning the crosses. By that I mean it's so widespread, even by breeders, I've become more tolerant and guilty of the same 20 times over.
However, I am not ready to put them in the Hybrid section yet.
We have to agree on the definitions of these terms before a meaningful argument can be made.
- "species"
- "subspecies"
- "hybrids"
- "species"
- "subspecies"
- "hybrids"