lionchu lunch

Lionchu munching down on sakari purple. It's amazing how they go for this when the water warms up. 

SxK rejects from David L.

7-26-2014

Reject S x K ranchu from Goldfish Garage. Not very many nice tails in here but I'm going to use these for an experimental cross to see if I can get good spawn from these fish. My guess is that when I re-shuffle the genomes of these fish by crossing I will "hit the jackpot" with some of the offspring.

SxK spawn

A small batch of SxK hatched today.

July 17th, 2014 - Adult lionchu in the greenhouse. The amount of wen has grown tremendously since putting these fish in the greenhouse. I think that the green water may have triggered this growth. These fish are ~ 3.5 years old. 

Lionchu Spawn

7-1-14

Lionchu spawn. I moved the adult lionchu into the greenhouse on the first of June. The first spawn produced about 150 fish. A subsequent spawn produced 25 fish. There are a lot of dorsal fins showing up in this cross. I wonder if this is due to these fish being hybrids and there not being complete redundancy in the mutation(s) that knocked out the dorsal fin.