Who Owns The REDDEST "FIRMOUTH" ???

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I don't want to highjack this great thread but thought this would be a great place to ask. I have a small firemouth in my 125. It is not quite 2 inches and is showing no real signs of any red. This was LFS purchase so I don't know how great the genes are. I was wondering at what size would the red throat appear?

-Cage
 
Basically RED IS BEST in Firemouth IMHO....

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Yep thats what we should all be looking towards... We should all be breeding our FMs and culling to the best quality and then breeding those fry and culling to better quality still. I've seen FMs where most of there heads were red... thats what we should be aiming for guys! ;)
 
Cyberman said:
Yep thats what we should all be looking towards... We should all be breeding our FMs and culling to the best quality and then breeding those fry and culling to better quality still. I've seen FMs where most of there heads were red... thats what we should be aiming for guys! ;)
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Should really be aiming on getting some new wild caught fish and breeding those.


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Here's my contribution. Not the reddest but he looks OK to me. Grabbed the photo on the fly so had to resort to flash and washing out his colours but you can see his general chilled out red coverage. He gets a lot redder when he is posturing or looking for a date. His tail is a bit torn up currently....

<-------------- Carpinte is digging pits all over the substrate and generally giving everyone a bit of grief at present. My salvini is copping the brunt of it and and has lost most of it's colour atm :(

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I am curious if they gain more red on the throat with age? Can diet create this desirable trait over the fishes life?
Here is a pic of my little guy. I do feed Hikari Red color enhancer, as well as NLS, bio-gold and Freeze dried Krill.
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