Copper red update

This guy has developed a fair bit, though still not as grande or large as his dad. About 3 months at the moment. He has nice branchings, though certainly weird caudal. Somehow the caudal branches like he's having feathertail or CT gene. None of the parents is known to have CT gene, but the dad had feathertail, so that may explain it (this lot seems to be stronger feathertail gene though).





There are only 10 fry from the whole spawn, due to the extreme size of both parents. Most eggs just gone fungusy. This makes this spawn one of the most expensive successful spawn that we had. It was so rewarding to finally had the parents "make out" and the joy that we've got when we saw *some* fry! Out of the spawn, some die off (about 6 dead?). There are only 4 males in the lot but currently the count down is going to 3 on last count. The other 2 weren't developing as nicely, more like "reject", which is very disappointing.



2 females (1 having health issue) are similar to this boy, awesome colouring and branchings. 1 of the females is stunted. She grows and behaves quite normal, but the fins had been collapsing or at least isn't growing as beautifully as it should be...The others are quite great with very promising size, some are 2-4 branchings if not more.

Interesting to see that they had initially very fast growth rate but seemed to get slowed down on the age of 3 months onwards. With this kind of rate, pessimistically we may only dream for them to get the size of their parents in the age of 1-2 years old, if they ever be continue growing!

We've got long plan for this spawn. Thinking of keeping them all till they're large and see if we can strike better luck on them. Was considering to offload these guys to some breeders too (they were fully booked; sorry), so we'll see how it goes...