lionchu lunch

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

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. 

Lionchu grow out - 7-25-11

Top view of the lionchu. Some are starting to develop nice wen.



Side view.

Lionchu grow out - 6-25-11

A few of the lionchu. The vidoes are a little funky as I'm playing around with lighting.

Lionchu Grow out

Lionchu 5-6-11. A little slow growing but I have been holding back on feeding as they have had some buoyancy issues. These are intended as seeds so I don't mind the slow growth. I really like the colors and head growth that some are starting to get. There are a few with good side view tails and a few that are good lionheads. I plan to take and split this group and select in those two different directions.

Lionchu Growout

Lionchu growout 4/10/11. Fish were placed in a 125 after this was taken.

Lionchu Growout

Lionchu grow out 3-20-2011

Lionchu Growout

2/28/11


3/7/2011

SVR standards

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Lionchu

New lionchu fry day 1. They are getting ready for a pp treatment and then into their quarantine tank for a few weeks.

Lionchu seeds

Images and video from ranchumaniax

Male 1
Female 1
Male 2
Female 2

I have ordered a group of babies (you tube video) which is a cross from one of the females above and mixed milt from the two males. Cross your fingers.