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Snow white Cobalt snakeskin fry
Hi all, my snow white male and Cobalt (solid blue) snakeskin female with red eye, have spawned and fry have hatched, around 30 or so.
Does anyone have experience mixing a snow white with a blue discus like this? How might the fry turn out looks wise?
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions and advice!
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Re: Snow white Cobalt snakeskin fry
Daniel,
Any pictures of the fry and parents can be helpful in determining their color.
Cliff
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I'm very lazy and bad at taking pics of fish. Top link below is exactly how the male looks, bottom is red eye blue scorpion female. Mine has very solid metallic blue body with only fine line markings in the face and some markings in the fins
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They've bred several times now and becoming better at it. Few fry did attach to female the last time, but she gave up prob cos they were too few. Been keeping them in very nonideal community tank. Will be moving them to a white back and sides breeding tank soon. Problem is the fry will not be attracted to the totally white dad!!
I may ask expert discus breeder in town to artificially hatch and raise the fry in future if I and these two parents fail to do so!
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My question to all you experts out there is: any chance to get solid white fry with blue face and fins for example?
I'd love a phenotype with a 50:50 blend of mother and father...
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The only one I can think of who might know is Cliff.
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The future color of your fry are determine by their genetic history. If don't know their history raise the whole batch. Later separate the batch into 4 groups, group one snakeskins these have 14 stress bars, group 2 will be anything with 8 or 9 bars, group 3 will be light yellow and group 4 will be the whites. Group 2 will be the quickest to develops color, these are anything from browns to solid blues,
group one with the fine line snakeskins will be the longest to color up, usually the finer line take longer to develop unless they are hormone. You'll just have to see what other combination of color comes up.
Cliff
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Wow. I will be interested in watching this thread if Daniel let us know how things progress. PLease post pics, Daniel.
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Thanks so much for this valuable info, Cliff! I have moved the pair to a breeding tank. Plus I have the brine shrimp eggs ready hehe. Fingers crossed. The female snakeskin discus is an absolute stunner but still young and small, only about 4.5 inches, this is my only concern as the fry will be very dependent on her. Dad is a perfect snow white and huge by my standards at around over 6 inches.
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Will do, Liz, thanks for your interest.
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Finally, I have eight very healthy fry growing well. They spend most of the time grazing on the better parent. the snow white male parent! I will try to post a video from today here. It is a bit dark but you can see the fry
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