Neffy Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 and then they will have blue babies just to really throw you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadoh Posted November 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 The way this lot is, they'd just about throw ANY colour. I would like to try and set that pinky/purply butterfly pattern though. It is worth a try I'd have to call it my Migaloo BF strain :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 I like that name. Wonder if the pink-purple BF will set. It is good there are a few fry with similar patterning. At least one will have to be a girl! Now, I really should get back to school.. I'm having a 'break'.. must find diagram on water desalination plant.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadoh Posted November 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 I think it is worth a try. I imagine the first generation or 2 will only have a few that look the way I want, but as the generations progress, I should get more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 How cool would it be to have a strain of purple-pink BFs?? You think you could ever get the marble out.. and if you can, would you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadoh Posted November 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 I think it would be near impossible, but with selective breeding the number of marbled fish would be reduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 You could always introduce a non-marble BF or something. But why would you? Unless you really want the Bf to set and stay put. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 The problem with butterfly is that genetically speaking, it's supposedly the same as marble. It seems that in a butterfly spawn, some will be marble and vice versa. I've read of lines which tend to be able to maintain a majority of fry that are BF, but they still get marbles in those spawns. So potentially, spawning Migaloo and Missusloo could result in the same extreme variety in fry that you have now. I guessing though that Migaloo (and partner) might be a Cambodian - if so, you'd expect ALL light bodied fry from this pairing. If he and missus are just clear body as a result of the marble gene though ... the colour range is likely to be as extensive as the current spawn (perhaps even moreso if they are both royal blue irid over - as you would then get all three variations of "blue"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadoh Posted November 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 (edited) I don't expect to get a line exclusively of BF, I just want to be able to tell people down the track that if they buy a pair from this line, they will get a certain percentage that will breed true to the strain. As I don't know what else the parents of this spawn were carrying, I guess it will take a couple of generations to find out. I have been assuming that half the fry are cambodian based due to the fact that from the moment they hatched, half were light bodied - marbling doesn't show until they start to colour up. Where does the pink colour come from? Which layer/s cause this? It sits over the flesh layer. Is it a mix of the blue and red layer with the black layer "turned off" ? (see overhead view below You can see a patch where it doesn't cover.) Edited November 24, 2010 by shadoh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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