OMG

I have obviously stopped thinking like a fish owner and started thinking way too much like a fish breeder...I didn't think interest in my fish would be so frantic!

Yesterday I made it known publically that I was offloading my excess F1 Black Orchid CTPK. I had kept a pair aside for me to further the line, a pair for a friend I had promised a breeding pair to, and two females as a thank you to the wonde3rful couple who loaned me their boy to start the line in the first place.

So five were already taken, leaving only six left: one boy and five girls.

They lasted all of about 20 minutes before they had been snapped up.

So, one spawn down, just the green spawn to go...well, I was going to wait a fortnight, allow those still in the growout to have a chance at joining those on show, but stupid me just went on impulse and made them public as well...11 girls and 5 boys this time.

I was keeping one boy and two girls, leaving 4 boys and 9 girls up for grabs...all gone, in less than two hours. My laptop got so confused I had to reboot it!

So all up, I had 27 fish from these two spawns. I'm keeping five of them. Everything else has a new home. It will be a busy day on Monday at the post office. 7 new Fishrooms/tanks will house some of my fish in different states all around Australia...that is so cool.

I have one spawn of F1's still in a growout tank. There's about a dozen fish in there. No idea on males or females at this stage but if the ratios stay true, then it should be light on males :(

This last F1 spawn is the important one. It carries my recessive genes for removing red wash and black influence. I hope to be able to develop this into a Cambodian CTPK line and a yellow CTPK line come F2 and beyond. I'm also hoping I can introduce a double tail influence into this line sooner rather than later. Not sure how many of these I will be giving away...might give the CTPK project first dibs (other than a promise I made to someone else...).

So, the fish who will be staying and continuing my lines...

Black Orchid CTPK Line

Green II CTPK Line

Black Orchid CTPK F1 - 2014

Tonight I jarred the last of the Black Orchid F1 CTPK - a big thing for me. First time I've cleared a grow out tank...first time I've raised a spawn from fry to maturity! Yay me! Only eleven from the spawn made it this far, but that's okay, what I do have is not a bad start for a black orchid CTPK line.

Judge for yourself...

A couple of the boys

 

 

A couple of the girls

 

 

The top boy and the top girl will be paired to progress the line :)

Pictures of all who will be looking for new homes will go up in a Facebook album hopefully before this coming weekend.....problem is two girls are already spoken for, and a breeding pair is waiting on a decision from another person I promised something too...after I take my breeding pair, that only leaves five girls...so if you're in the market for females for the cost of postage, stalk my Facebook page :)

There will also be some from my green line looking for new homes soon. Thirteen of these have been jarred and there is still six or so growing out. Haven't fully decided on what will be progressing the line forward, but there will be marble girls, royal blues, and some males looking for new homes (and quite possibly breeding pairs)...these will also be in an album on Facebook very soon :)