Hybrid 08

Goals

This is my first time pairing half sisters to the same male.  (H09) I am very curious to see what traits will show with each of them.  The male's head shape has a lot of room for improvement.  I am hopeful that it will be ok since the females family has been pretty nice so far.  With Prim , I am hoping to get a lot of nice iridescent fry with strong orange and yellows.  Perhaps we'll get some koi since she carries the gene, but I'm not too worried about that.  With Zinna I am hoping to get some similar looking fry to Yarrow, but expect that they'll come with pineapple or other wild traits.  This is also my first time pairing a hybrid back to a koi so I am unsure if we'll fully lose the spadetail gene, if it'll be subdued, or if we'll get a variety of fry.  

1. Strong iridescent mask 

2. Yellow or orange bases

3. Some koi or marble 

4. Some spadetails

The Spawn

Hatched : 02/19/26

Amount : 15

Deformities :  Some odd head shapes as expected from the male, but nothing too bad.

Colors : Green, Blue, Red, Bicolor, Pineapple 

Goals Met : I got one female with the bright orange body of her mom, and a lot of beautiful forms!  No koi, but there were two muddied marbles.  

Continue : Yes! 

4 Months Update

I have begun rehoming some of the ones I know I won't be keeping.  It's a lot earlier then I normally would rehome as I was hoping to wait until their spade tail points developed, but I need the space for the upcoming bettas.

  I am so excited about how well they've grown and the colors they produced, such a great spawn!!   

3.5 Months Update

Still growing amazingly! 

2.5 Months Update

Started jarring the biggest few males to encourage fin growth.  They started flaring after an hour!  Normally my wild mixes take a week or so to get comfortable in the jars so this is a great sign!  

The rest of the spawn has some good growers as well.  I have some equally sized females to the jarred males, then others that are smaller.   The stragglers just aren't thriving so I decided to do a large cull to focus on the ones that are.  I am thinking the smallest may be from my Wild Female mother who's own spawn was also extremely slow to grow.   I am thinking there may be a genetic component from her side.  

The remaining fry look good though.  I haven't kept a good record of how many I have left, but I'm guessing between 35 and 55 fry.  It's hard to count them in such a large pond!

1.5 Months Update 

These spawns are doing very well!  I've narrowed them down to 75 fry, and plan to cull a few more once they hit 2 months.  I've started moving the biggest fry to my 100g growout pond so the smaller ones don't have to compete for food.  I also took out a majority of the live plants so the food can be distributed easily.  

Larger ones are already moving to shredded blood worms which should accelerate their growth even more.  Smaller ones are still on tubifex worms and live Moina.