As we all know, most convict crossings result in offspring that just look like a convict's skin stretched over whatever the other parent was. Except when they cross to peeling amphilophines, then they make miniature amphilophus that peel and everything. Sometimes color of the other pairing comes through. Have we figured out why this is?
I also have some weird findings in terms of convict crossings. Any idea why the same species, but different individuals, when used in hybrid crossings would throw out different offspring?
I have seen cutteri/nigrofasciata crossings 4 times. HRP crosses now count because HRPs are now known to be a nigrofasciata locale. One crossing resulted in a yellow spilurus looking thing, leaning more to cutteri. One resulted in this big grey monster that was like an intermediate between a convict and cutteri in shape with convict coloration but no stripes and blue eyes. One was an HRP crossing on here that pretty much resulted in lime green HRPs with blue throats and lips. And then there's mine, where I had a female from the TUIC line of HRPs spawn with a male cutteri, and I got cutteri with thicker stripes and rainbow colored fins. I will get pictures later.
I also have some weird findings in terms of convict crossings. Any idea why the same species, but different individuals, when used in hybrid crossings would throw out different offspring?
I have seen cutteri/nigrofasciata crossings 4 times. HRP crosses now count because HRPs are now known to be a nigrofasciata locale. One crossing resulted in a yellow spilurus looking thing, leaning more to cutteri. One resulted in this big grey monster that was like an intermediate between a convict and cutteri in shape with convict coloration but no stripes and blue eyes. One was an HRP crossing on here that pretty much resulted in lime green HRPs with blue throats and lips. And then there's mine, where I had a female from the TUIC line of HRPs spawn with a male cutteri, and I got cutteri with thicker stripes and rainbow colored fins. I will get pictures later.
