Black Orchid CT Male (above) x Black Marble HMPK Female (below)
And...
Marble Dragon HMPK Male -deceased (above) x Turquoise DR CT Female (below)
...into bigger accommodations. To the naked eye, they all seem to be benefitting from the move and growing nicely. According to my measurements, not a whole lot has changed...we'll see.
Moving the two spawns left me with two spare spawn tanks. One, I'm leaving empty for now. It may come in handy as a separate growout for a few females, or as a hospital tank. The other I've decided to setup an F2 spawn from:
Marble HMPK Male - deceased (above) x Turquoise DR CT Female (below)
The brother x sister pairing looks like this:
Turquoise (Metallic Green even...) Marble Combtail Male (above)
Royal Blue with Red wash (Marble Geno) Combtail Female (above)
They are only in the conditioning stage at the moment, being fed an increased diet of frozen blood worm. The male is taking claim to his new territory (which he's been in for the past three days). The female has been setup in a beanie box beside him. They are carded. They'll have their first view of each other just before bedtime tonight.
He has remarkable colouring with the dragon influence of Dad possibly adding to his metallic modifiers. The turquoise looks much more like a metallic green than anything I've seen in front of me before. He also has a good start to a dorsal, nice masking, single point ventrals, and nice top line. All his unpaired fins show the influence of mum's long fins.
She has an okay top line, a narrow-based dorsal, good masking, single point ventrals, an even anal and better webbing reduction all over than he does.
Hopes: As both carry impartial penetrant genes and the plakat genes of the father, and the DR CT long fin genes of the mother (who also had a nice dorsal), I'll be looking for plakats with better webbing reduction and who carry on the metallic green.
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