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RE: NFC: Rosy reds
>Well I am about 2 hours straight north of you Mark
Oh yeah? Where abouts?
>->Did you breed your own Oscar stock?
>No I purchased small 2.5 inch Oscars from the local pet store. Hopefully I
>will get a pair or two out of them.
I have been working with a group of oscars for years. I've finally got to
the point, just this week actually, where I'm getting a decent amount of
viable fry. I was trying to spawn albinos, which I've learned, have a lot
of fertility problems. I crossed a wild type, Rio Demini, male with an
albino tiger female. I now have adult offspring from that cross. These
offspring are the ones that spawned this week. I'm really anxious to see
if I get a straight Mendelian ratio of 1:3. This would be really nice
because there are so many mixed up, ugly looking oscars out there. If I
can get good separation of the albino gene(s), I'll really have something.
This spawn also seems to be having some fertilization problems, but it
looks like I have more developing than fungusing. Hoping for a hatch
tonight.
I know oscars are anathema on this list, but hey, Ron's working on an
oscars for food project! Maybe he'll want some wild breeder stock from the
everglades! :)
And I'm using cichlid fry to feed darters, so show us some mercy!
Mark Binkley
Columbus Ohio USA <))><
mbinkley at earthling_net
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