Our first batch of fry from our Stendker Pigeon Blues

[Gixxert]

Hey Rick, we have sold off around 50 of them and are keeping 6 for ourselves to grow out. That was the last picture of the entire batch. This will be the first time we will have grown out our own fry.

Thanks

[nc0gnet0]

Hey Rick, we have sold off around 50 of them and are keeping 6 for ourselves to grow out. That was the last picture of the entire batch. This will be the first time we will have grown out our own fry.

Thanks

Very cool, interested to see how the 6 turn out! How may I ask did you decide on what 6 to keep?

-Rick

[Altum Nut]

Hey Rick, we have sold off around 50 of them and are keeping 6 for ourselves to grow out. That was the last picture of the entire batch. This will be the first time we will have grown out our own fry.

Thanks

Great job with them....
I had some quality grow-outs less than one hour from me and wonder how did I miss out on some.
Were they sold off locally.

...Ralph

[Rudustin]

Fantastic! They look great. Congrats. Rufus

[Tvd/Tlc]

Thank you everyone for the great feedback

Hey Rick, we have used the info guy's like you and John N. Have given out time and time again. We started by size. We had a bunch that grew so much faster than other. Then we went by shape. We looked for round fish with perfect tails and fins. Last we looked at the color. We wanted fish with the brightest most consistent color that would repress the pigeon blue strain the best. Now birth defects like short gills and deformed shape were culled long ago so that wasn't something we were worried about this time around. If you have some advice to help this process please share. We are far from experts. We love good advice

[nc0gnet0]

Thank you everyone for the great feedback

Hey Rick, we have used the info guy's like you and John N. Have given out time and time again. We started by size. We had a bunch that grew so much faster than other. Then we went by shape. We looked for round fish with perfect tails and fins. Last we looked at the color. We wanted fish with the brightest most consistent color that would repress the pigeon blue strain the best. Now birth defects like short gills and deformed shape were culled long ago so that wasn't something we were worried about this time around. If you have some advice to help this process please share. We are far from experts. We love good advice

Nothing wrong with that with one caveat. Is your ultimate goal to get a few pairs from this 6? Or are you just looking for 6 very nice fish, regardless of sex?


-Rick

[Tvd/Tlc]

You are correct. We would prefer pairs. Now that being said if we get one or two of one sex and the rest the other I am good with that but you are right sex never crossed our minds once. Lolololol. Live and learn. That is why we are on this forum. Lots to learn. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Is there any tips you can give us to help guess the sex of 3"-3 1/2" grow outs?

[adshark]

Great post. What was the fish feeding on that was a brown square in some of your pics? Thanks

[John_Nicholson]

Ya'll have done a great job.

-john

[musicmarn1]

any picture updates?

[Gixxert]

Thanks everyone, We have learned so much growing these guy's out. We also want to thank John N. he was always there when we needed good honest sound advice. We have kept 6 which we plan on growing out to adults. We will post update pics when we figure they have grown enough that there is a visable difference in size.

Oh and the brown squares are just Freeze dried black worms stuck to the glass. We have sort of moved away from them and almost feed our Discus stictly our Beefheart mix.

Thanks again.

[nc0gnet0]

You are correct. We would prefer pairs. Now that being said if we get one or two of one sex and the rest the other I am good with that but you are right sex never crossed our minds once. Lolololol. Live and learn. That is why we are on this forum. Lots to learn. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Is there any tips you can give us to help guess the sex of 3"-3 1/2" grow outs?

my one small concern might be by picking the largest you might end up with all males........hope not! Other than that they look great!


-Rick

[Gixxert]

Thanks Rick.

[Tvd/Tlc]

Update our babies are just about 3 months they are eating and growing well ))

[rdiscus]

They look great ...