Want to try breeding can't decide what

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richkid

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Ok. Like the title says. I have a male Thai silk. I want to give him a chance to breed. I have a few fish already that he could breed with can't decide what to try tho. So here are the options.

The flowerhorn is about 8-9" maybe.

I have a female jag 8" maybe.
Also a female loisellei 4-5" maybe. Still not 100% on the sex but been told it's female
Also a female calico con w beautiful narkings. She's still to small to be anything but food though.

Also considering buying a Texas to try w him.

Any thoughts? Also how should I go about introducing the female?


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I would do the jaguar as Im interested in what the fry would look like. or the texas.
 
I think the jag would be my best bet since she's already laid eggs a few times and size wise she could handle him hopefully. He would have no problem killing the others quickly. I'm just not sure what type of colors I could get from that combo. Jags are pretty drab color wise in my opinion. I also was hoping to come up w a fish that will max out at 12" tops. Maybe it will produce something nice though.


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cross out calico convict. The rest are all good interesting choices.
 
Why no convict? I'm looking to bring out some colors other than blue. Primarily red. What should I be looking to breed him with?
 
I think a jag cross would be ugly. Color and body shape on the majority of fry would not be desirable unless you like long grey fish. Find a stocky bodied pearly fish to match the silks pearl and shape. Texas may be good I almost tried that myself a few years ago.
 
Have you considered another strain of flowerhorn? Im growing out fry from my silk x srd. Ive seen colorful pearly fh from crossing those strains.
 
The only jag cross I've seen that was awesome was jag X jack dempsey, all the other jag crosses I've seen are either muddy brown or looked like a fader jag with no markings...in other words not that great.
 
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