German Blue and Electric Blue Rams!!

Ive got around 40 young from a spawn from a while ago, the parents were 1x German and 1x Electric, anyone had this before? will they be fertile?

around 40% of them have coloured up full electric blue so far

ill take some photos tonight, looks like 99% are either electric or germans, only have two that ive separated out that have a kind of wild colored patterning to them. Really interested to find out if they are fertile.

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Electric blue are just a colour morph of a standard blue (or german blue) ram so the offspring should be viable, and unless the standard ram carries the electric blue genes (ie it is also an electric blue X) most or all of the offspring will be normal. If you breed offspring between each other you will get a split, or breed offspring back to the electric blue parent to get a larger split.

Rad, thanks a lot, so they will either be one or the other? not some kind of new hybrid colour morph mix? Pics to come, sister was not home to lend me her SLR :tears:

They're probably not going to be either as you've crossed two different strains. The fry will most likely vary with some looking more like one parent than the other and some looking like a mix. Should be interesting, but you've got to do a lot more than cross a couple of different fish to create a new colour strain/morph. You're probably on the right track though, I'd hang onto the fry and grow them out to a decent size to see what they turn out like, and pick the best/most interesting if you want to continue breeding a new strain. Probably the best thing to do if you get some that are pretty close to the electric blue strain is cross them back with another electric blue (not their parent) to add a bit of genetic diversity to the strain.

Youve read my mind

I put dibs on 2 of the fry....

I might keep all these ones for now, sorry about not having photos up yet, just in the process of moving, once i have them settled in, should be all go.

I might keep all these ones for now, sorry about not having photos up yet, just in the process of moving, once i have them settled in, should be all go.

All good, bought two pretty well priced ones. Might also get some German Blues also.