trav Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 hey guys 2 of my electric yellows have just had babies and 1 unknown fish and have 2 more electric yellows with babies in there mouth and 1 more unknown :bounce: realy excited!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Awesome news What other fish were in the tank though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 will upload some pics . 40 or 50 others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 congrats! that's really awesome. :bounce: I was super excited when my yellows and dems bred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLB Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 :bounce: :bounce: Congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 will upload some pics . 40 or 50 others Don't mean to put a damper on your buzz or sound mean... But if you have a mix of zebras in those 40-50 fish then you most likely have hybrids in your powder blues mouths or at the very least you cannot call the fry powder blues because you do not know.. Yellows may be ok in a mixed tank but they can and do cross quite often with zebras (mainly red zebras). Disclaimer: I am not telling deetrav what he can or can't keep in a tank, what he can or can't breed or sell I am just telling him what he is likely to be producing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 hi here are my tanks sorry could not get a good photo of the ones with babies :bounce: :bounce: what do you think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 hi here are my tanks sorry could not get a good photo of the ones with babies :bounce: :bounce: what do you think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish_fingers Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Grats dude :bounce: And nice photos also. Hope they are doing well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 yup al healthy there colours are coming :bounce: :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Tanks look awesome, do you have polystig and livingstonii in there too? Is this the tank you are breeding in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 yup that the tank and i know about poly and livingstoni can cross breed. i wouldnt call it a breeding tank . my main thing about the tank is to look after the fish and keep them healthy and breeding is a bonus. it is all for the care of the fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Yeah the nimbos can and will cross breed... As will all of your mixed zebras you have in there, if you do take any fry from those tanks then you should probably sell/give them away as mixed or hybrid fish because you would have no idea who spawned with the zebra females. Zebras are really good at crossing the dominant male zebra in your tank will breed with all the available zebra girls regardless of their species sometimes even several males of different species will breed with the same girl. Obviously if you don't plan to sell or pass on any fish then it wont matter When people breed in these mixed tanks and give the fish pure names then it causes issues later on when other people buy them expecting something and get ripped off, or the fry are spread around and mixed with pure stocks ruining other species. Again don't want to sound mean or stir up the hybrid debate again but it is one of my pet hates and one of the things that brings the quality of the africans in NZ down alot. If you are going to breed in mixed tanks at least be honest with buyers or people who get the fish about what they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 ok thank you i got tolled by a friend that they were powder blues but thank you soo much for telling me they are not i could get in alot of trouble thank you :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 I have no idea what they are exactly (hard to know unless you got them off a breeder with proper names etc) but it does appear you have some ice blues in there, a peach or red zebra male some sort of melanachromis, some sort of peacock and some yellows, again it is hard to know how pure any of them are.. Can you get better photos of any of the fish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 ok wich fish do want beta pics of? hey guys sorry i said that i had powder blue babies they were not i am realy sorry and can i please had some identification on the brown fish in the pic thanks :bounce: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 If you take better photos of all of your fish then we can all give you some idea what you may have.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 here you go more pics more to come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ryanjury Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Hard to tell from blurry pics but here are some guesses.. 1. Melo auratus male 2. unsure because of the photo but looks like what is usually sold as a blue zebra which means it is a zebra and it is blue of unknown parentage usually hybrid. 3. Male Ice blue (Greshaki) 4. Male Bumblebee 5. Another male ice blue 6. Peach/red zebra male 7. Unsure due to pic can't make out detail in tail or dorsal fine but could be powder blue.. 8. Same as no. 2 HTH as you can see you have a wide assortment of fish there is no guarantee any of them are what I have posted as they could all be hybrids that have thrown back the only way to tell would be if they came from a descent place with a good name and were bred in species tanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav Posted January 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 thanks that bumble is the female the male is hiding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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