My main goal is to work with the strain and line breed them, removing the golden gene. However, a few crosses are still a possibility.
Amazing! Canīt stop looking at them. Congratulations. Please keep the updates coming.
I almost forgot there is a few random browns in there from a different cross, ignore them (they are the solid browns).
Rick
Awesome looking fish Rick, I'd love them even more in my tanks.
Len
hey rick are you still working with the curipera.have you been successful in line breeding the strain or crossing something else to improve the strain.i am curious because i have a breeding pair of curiperas that breed true and would like to try and keep the strain going but only have one pair.any suggestions on what might make a good strain for crossing with the curipera offspring to keep the strain going as the strain is rare in australia.the fish in my avatar is the female curipera.regards lawrence
Very nice.
Darren Burgess
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These are all nice fish including the browns. What is the end result without the golden gene?
Coree
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Any updates?
Mark
No updates to speak of, though I did keep three of the offspring (full adults now). A lot of my breeding projects were put on hold during the contest. I have tried crossing one of the females with a male golden to see if the curiperax female was a carrier of the golden gene (heterozygous). While not succesful with the batch, I did get a nice hatch (they got eaten at free swim) and was able to determine that she did not have the golden gene. I have another female from this batch that developed an odd pronounced 6th bar (much like the heckel, but the wrong bar) who I currently have with a heckel cross. The one male I kept is nice and big (although not that colorful) and has not yet been put to use.
As to my future plans, to tell you the truth, I am a bit skeptical on just how much "wild" lineage there actually is in this variety/cross, and if these fish are just the result of a brown turq crossed with a golden resulting in a wildish looking partially straited brown based turq.
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Perhaps Kenny or Forrest could answer or research that question if there are any interest of course.
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