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
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