Breeding Journal, Species: A. percula (Picasso variant)

Beautiful!

Doni Marie~

Went and picked up some offspring that my partner has been housing so I could fill an order. Took a few pics.

 

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Very nice Tal!

In the latest batch I have a high percentage of Platinums. Not sure how many for sure but, quite a few. These are about 3 weeks old.

 



 



 



 



 

 

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Nice!!!

Doni Marie~

Ok- yours look WAY bigger than mine lol....... what are you feeding them? Superman Otohime, lol
Looks great! Thanks for sharing your photos and experience Tal

Michelle  
 

Nice pic's Tal.  Looks by the photo's like maybe a 1/3ish are platinum's?

Thanks Dave. They are hard to count, as I'm sure you know. Not sure if it's 1/3, there were more fish that aren't in the pics but there are a lot of them. 

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Looks like ours hatched at about the same time   Mine are at about day 23 I think.  I need to get my journals going...

New pics from today. These hatched in early March and have been fed TDO and frozen cyclopeeze.





 

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Very nice coloration Tal.  I don't think I have ever seen that much black on percs/picasso's at 5 months   I am feeding almost exclusively TDO now except for a few experiments that I am doing on the differences of regular otohime vs. TDO.  Randy showed a couple of photo's of them at the MBI workshop.  I am really excited to start a batch of onyx percs next week with TDO. 

I don't want to get off topic here but, I've noticed a huge difference in the black coloration of my Darwin offspring by using the TDO. They are fully black, and white, 2 months sooner than in the past.

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Another video of 2 more: 

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While I am not a big fan of the uglyfish, these are pretty darn cute. Very mature looking for 5 months percula.

Here are three left from the latest batch
 

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Here are some interesting offspring that I think are about 9 months old and still small, ~3/4" with almost no orange.
 




 
I'm calling them Pico Panda Platinums.

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 I was gonna say, Panda!  I love the pictures you take of fish on a rug….

Panda was the first thing that came to mind too. FWIW, that isn't a rug. I take these pics in my bathroom and the counter top is white so I place the plastic container on a blue washcloth to create some contrast.

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Wonderful looking Platinums there, Tal. Very cool.