We crossed a BP and Esondio texas to stert some red texas and I am wondering why none of the juves are short bodies. Does it take more crosses to the parrot to create them or are they just occasional happenings.
What creates a shot body hybrid
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From what I've seen on other FH forums, you will get a mix of traits in the fry. A small percentage should have the right combo of traits you are looking for. Some breeders (from what I've read) recommend crossing one of the offpsring back to the parent to get a stronger expression of the traits your looking for.
You could always setup two pairs of BP/Tex and breed the offspring from two separate pairs to keep the gene mix varied, and avoid the awkwardness of watching a fish do the deed with it's parent.
You could always setup two pairs of BP/Tex and breed the offspring from two separate pairs to keep the gene mix varied, and avoid the awkwardness of watching a fish do the deed with it's parent.
Check your fry very carefully, in my experience fully 50% of an sb to regular spawn will be sb. The catch to that? That 50% will range in length, so perhaps only 25% will be extreme sb as in parrot fish size. As soon as you see suspected sb fry remove them to a separate tank immediately or their longer siblings will out compete them for food. If they don't canniblize them first for being weaker/slower.
The males from these fry may not be fertile but I assume you already know that.
My strain of sb Texas, like 75ish% pure (definitely fertile!) Green Texas...
[video=youtube;pZuS9gjtA2U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZuS9gjtA2U[/video]
The current generation are from parents that are siblings from an sb to wild/regular type spawn, the very fish in my vid. They were carefully chosen and separated into their own tank for grow out. An odd thing about the current generation...even though 100% of the fry are sb, some are actually quite long...longer than either sb parent! Only a few like that and they seem to all come from only one of the two pairs I allowed to spawn. I have 2-3 hundred nearly 1/2" fry right now; )
The males from these fry may not be fertile but I assume you already know that.
My strain of sb Texas, like 75ish% pure (definitely fertile!) Green Texas...
[video=youtube;pZuS9gjtA2U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZuS9gjtA2U[/video]
The current generation are from parents that are siblings from an sb to wild/regular type spawn, the very fish in my vid. They were carefully chosen and separated into their own tank for grow out. An odd thing about the current generation...even though 100% of the fry are sb, some are actually quite long...longer than either sb parent! Only a few like that and they seem to all come from only one of the two pairs I allowed to spawn. I have 2-3 hundred nearly 1/2" fry right now; )
Your sb texas look great we are not really looking for the sb but a few would be nice. Really want to breed for the rt's but some of your fish there look good too. We new that very few males wil be fertile do think as you bread back closer to a sb texas that the percentage of fertile males increased.