Producing fertile melano female, part I

Continuing our discussion about fertility in melano from the previous post. This time we have the chance to do another experimentation, perhaps in 2 months time anyway, of testing melano fertility.

What difference this time is the source of melano. Current line produces some melanos, despite parents only inherit melano gene indirectly from their ancestries. There are currently about 5 melano males, 2 melano females, and 2 steel blue lace females. Other siblings are multi colours, therefore it can be said that the majority of the spawn is fertile.

So, the question is whether the crossing of 2 melanos from the majority fertile F1 will yield to a fertile F2? We hope that this type of crossing to be slightly different from the typical melano spawns (most melanos are produced by crossing a melano male to either steel blue, blue, or green females that yield to all melano females in the spawn infertile).

It seems, even the melanos produced in this spawn have hint of black orchid or steel blue lace. Perhaps there is a chance after all to produce a fertile melano female. Fingers crossed....We'll continue this topic to Part II in about 2 months time, when they're ready to spawn.