Batch 2 2009 contest fish(apd) x F1 (ogon yellow white x ARSG)

[nc0gnet0]

Pair is one of my F1's (albino Red Spotted Green x Ogon Yellow white) x one of the 2009 contest fish purchased from Chad Hughes. Be interesting if these make it, as I not only can document the developement of the fry, but the parents as well. There are about as many fry on the other side of the mother and I apologize for the color, I played around with it to display the fry a bit better. Interesting that 90% of the fry are attached to the albino parent.



Dad is showing a lot of pepper as he has darkened up for the fry. Typically he shows virtually no pepper. There should be 50% albino's in this group, but to hard to tell at this stage. Here are some better pictures of the parents:

Dad:



Mom:

[DiscusDrew]

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Should be an interesting batch, ill be following this one, at some point hopefully I can learn some from you about the albino gene and start playing around in that direction. Dad really darkened up for the fry there, I find that a very unique aspect of pigeon breeding.

[rdiscus]

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interesting to see how the fry grow out, specially the albino ...

[nc0gnet0]

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Day 3:

[nc0gnet0]

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Day 6

[nc0gnet0]

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Week 2:





Quite the assortment of fry these two have thrown. Although it doesn't show in the pictures I am guess at least 4 maybe 6 types of fry ranging from Pb's to albino's to white/yellows to even what I think (hard to tell at this stage) might be some non-pb's. My guess at this stage is that the 2009 contest fish were Pb crosses heterozygous-only one pb gene).

This picture also reminds me that I need to stop procratinating and put a background on that tank

I am going to grab my SLR and try to take some better pictures of the fry to show the differences in types later hopefully.

Rick

[nc0gnet0]

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[nc0gnet0]

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[rdiscus]

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Looking great

[Eddie]

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Super nice! Crazy how much Dad changed after the spawn and fry rearing. You did a phenomenal job growing him out. Such a wide range of fry as you mentioned there were some non-pb and non-albino. Maybe RSG? Will be quite the story to watch them develop out!

[nc0gnet0]

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Thanks Eddie! Admittedly Dad wasn't my first choice to breed with this female, but she has proven to be most difficult to force pair with another male APD I had selected for her. I liked the novelty of having a representative of the 2009 contest in this contest, so I allowed her to choose her mate. At least he does have some yellow in his genetics so it could be interesting to see what kind of fry they throw.

Rick

[ockyra215]

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All I can say is Jealous lol. Rick looks good I like the combination should be neat to see the outcome!

[nc0gnet0]

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[Chicago Discus]

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they look great my friend............Josie

[nc0gnet0]

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Looking for food:

Currently getting fed Al's FDBW's as a staple(two feedings) Super beaf heart flake (1x), cobalt Flake (1x) and some NLS growth pellerts intermittantly. Feedings are typically at 6:30 am, 4:15 pm, 7:30 pm, and 11:00 pm. Two 60-80 % water changes a day, one at 5:15 pm and one at 11:00 pm. I have one HOB filter and one sponge filter in the tank. temperature is set to 82.5. I use 100 % RO water with just enough RO waste water to bring my TDS up to around 70 ppm. PH is typically at or about 7.6-7.8, but I honestly don't monitor this much at all.

Getting fed Al's Freeze Dried Black Worms ran through a coffee grinder: