Friday 19 June 2009

Some pix from last few days

Having cleaned up, sort of, the tanks, we took the opportunity to take some shots.

This one is an interesting one. He is one of the smaller spawn with a few melano marbles. He is a giant geno, but by the look of it he's only carrying the gene of 25%. What's fascinating about these melanos is watching how they turn their colour from a complete black melano to some patchy one. This one is the extreme version where he only has some dots left :)
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This one is coming from old line of copper mixed with lavendar. Not surprisingly the colour comes up as multi with lots of copperish. Nice ray branching though, starting to feather.
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Again coming from copper line, this one is copper giant geno crosses. He's the only survival one from the spawn unfortunately as the parents, particularly the female, were extremely large, hence a difficult spawning. The beauty of this boy is on his colouration, a mixture of gold and red intertwined throughout the body and fins, pretty consistently. His spread isn't bad, body is pretty thick, but the boy is very naughty and managed to had a good fight with another male, hence all the torns in his fins.
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Finally, still admiring this boy, he's a very nice breeder-quality one...We've posted his pix when he was small till the size he's now, overall it's nice to see how they form and grow. Here are the pix again from small to big, just another flash back and waste of your bandwidth :)
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