celestialdude
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Hi L777,
Thanks for your post. To answer your questions :
1) does anyone know of any organized effort to “register” or otherwise track the lineages of the fish now in tanks?
Yes, one of the purposes of this site is to coordinate formalized breeding for this new species. However, no formal system is in place. In all honesty, even though I set up this site, I have no experience in breeding, but understand the concepts (from biology classes, covering genetics). At this point my own “wild” stock has had fry and I’ve given away the first batch. Am waiting for subsequent batches of fry.
I’m hoping that more experienced fish breeders will take the lead and suggest any kind of tracking system that would work as a “breeding program”. What is standard practice? Let me know and I will figure out the Web application for it.
At this point, with no formalized program in place, my gut feel is that individual breeders will (hopefully) track their own generations and swap young fish among themselves to maintain a healthy gene pool. However, it would be a good idea to put a formal program into place. Since we are still in the early stages of discovery of this species, it would be opportune to do this.
2) in terms of trying to maintain a stock that remains as true as possible to the wild caught populations, how much variation have you all noticed among your fish? I have noticed quite a bit of individuality among the color patterns in the males’ anal fins in particular… should I be selecting for a certain body shape and coloration?
That is another purpose of this site — to visually record as much as possible of this fish’s physical traits, to use as a reference point for breeders. One of our members Glenn has posted some excellent photos of this fish. I hope to see more photos of the “wild caught” generation posted, so if anyone has them, please do so.
Again thanks for your post, and I hope that you can suggest any ideas you have on breeding programs.
Welcome aboard!
Well, I got mine from Lucky Aquarium at Market Village / Pacific Mall (Steeles & Kennedy N.E.) but I haven’t seen them stocked since then.
These are small fishes, so 8 in a 10-gallon will be more than fine.
I’ve been able to breed 4 in a 5-gallon. Took about 2 months for it to happen though.
Your setup sounds just about right… have lots of java moss and you’ll set the mood.
Good luck! I am in Toronto too. Where did you get your stock?
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Ah yes Anabantoids… also known as the labyrinth fishes. They are awesome, I’ve thought about them… for later when I have more space. I especially like the Blue / Opaline Gourami. Also like the Giant Gourami, but again, space constraints for now.
Yeah, I think this happens when more than one person replies, and too much time has transpired between when people hit Reply and when they actually post.
So what I’m recommending is, if you’re going to be taking a long time to respond, then do it in Notepad first, BEFORE hitting Reply and posting your response. It should be real quick — reply, paste, and submit, so your window of time is really small.
Do NOT hit Reply, then take forever to write your post, then submit. This will likely cause a recurrence of this problem.
Sorry… don’t have much control over this, it’s how the forum software works! At some point I’ll look into upgrading to version 3… tx guys!
Hahaha… yes… there is definitely some truth to that… focus on your research and information exchange skills with regard to the fishkeeping hobby.
