Gold Traditional Plakat sibling pair from spawn 16-031, fish IDs: 16-031-I, 16-031-6.
Introduced: 11 October 2016.
Spawned: 13 October 2016.
Hatched: 14 October 2016.
Dad removed: 18 October 2016.Line Notes:
Parents are the F1 generation after re-acquiring my Super Gold PK import line. Copper was introduced two generations back to correct fading metallic coverage and body color. Results are that about 60% of spawn 16-031 show varying amounts of copper coverage, ranging from copper sides to pineapple-like copper scale edges. Other genes introduced include butterfly pattern and red-dot fins (approx 3% of the spawn showed one or the other).Father of this spawn shows slight butterfly pattern but is clean of copper, female shows no butterfly nor copper. Female is the better formed fish here.
Small Spawn. Male was excessively aggressive, body slammed female alot. Female only released maybe half her eggs, if that. Probably around 30 eggs.
Full hatch out, great father so far.
Second Try- 16-033
Reset: 26 October 2016
Spawned: 28 October 2016
Hatched: 30 October 2016
Dad Removed: 1 November 2016Much better this time. They spawned within two hours of releasing the female (I missed it because I left the house for an hour and came home to him running her off). The male is still SUPER aggressive! Its funny, he doesn’t go for her fins, he just nails the living daylights out of her side like a missile. I know in the fighting world they do talk about the fight-style of the fish, I guess that was my demonstration. Its kind of a nice difference though, despite his bad attitude I could still show her on this very day.
Great hatch out! Its amazing how much mixing my water with RO water helps things. No bobbing babies this time.
I also think covering the male helped this time. He’s a really protective dude, so making the world less threatening for him made things better.
Post count: 10I ended up taking some lovely photos of the parents of this spawn before they went to their new home with Auntie Liz in Hawaii.
Starting to get interested in inert foods @ 3.5 weeks old. Right on track. Size is little smaller this last week than normal for me, my BBS hatchery has been producing very poorly, so they haven’t had meals big enough to make fat bellies much. Heidi Burkle is sending me some grindal worms to save my buns but with the holiday weekend its taking a bit. They ought to see me through till they’re more reliably taking inert foods.
A few of them checking out a chunk of Rapashy Spawn N Grow (day 4 of offering it).
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