saddlesoap
New Member
This is my first spawn. Althought I have done tons of recherch prior, and even during, I don't think I've ever heard of this.
My pair is Mosaic, my VT cambodian butterfly w/ dark eyes x Dove, my VT opaque w/ white eyes
(I'm fairly sure on that she is an opaque... But there was so much variation in peoples' labeling of opaques and pastels that this is pretty much an estimate. But she is very white with just a little blue tone at certain angles on her fin.)
Anyway, the spawn went well, although, the female ended up ripping out almost all of my poor boy's anal fin
I stopped the two from spawing after about 50 or so eggs where put into the nest. I am spawing in a 5g, so I didn't want too many fry.
Everything went wonderfly, eggs hatched and everything. There where about 30 fry. I have been feeding decaps and just now at about 6 weeks they are reciving crushed betta bites and freeze dried tubifex worms. All are very helthy and active, althought there is quite a gap in size, which I understand is normal.
I hope that there colour starts to come out soon, I can't wait
But there is something strange in a few of my fry. I have confermed that there are at least two of them who have one dark eye, and one white. I have never heard of this before. At first I had only seen one, so I thought it was just a freak (not in the mean sense... just as in messed up genetics). But than I spotted a second one. Is this just a genetic quirk? Has it ever happened before? Is it a marble trait or something? I'm very currious about this. Also, even with all the research I did, I found very little information on eye colour genetics. Only two sites mentionned the white eye gene, and one said it was ressesive, and the other that it was dominant. Compleate contradictions. Either way, I would say about 30% of the fry have dark eyes, but I'm not too sure.
Thanks for all the input in advance!
(parents pics bellow)
My pair is Mosaic, my VT cambodian butterfly w/ dark eyes x Dove, my VT opaque w/ white eyes
(I'm fairly sure on that she is an opaque... But there was so much variation in peoples' labeling of opaques and pastels that this is pretty much an estimate. But she is very white with just a little blue tone at certain angles on her fin.)
Anyway, the spawn went well, although, the female ended up ripping out almost all of my poor boy's anal fin
I stopped the two from spawing after about 50 or so eggs where put into the nest. I am spawing in a 5g, so I didn't want too many fry.
Everything went wonderfly, eggs hatched and everything. There where about 30 fry. I have been feeding decaps and just now at about 6 weeks they are reciving crushed betta bites and freeze dried tubifex worms. All are very helthy and active, althought there is quite a gap in size, which I understand is normal.
I hope that there colour starts to come out soon, I can't wait
But there is something strange in a few of my fry. I have confermed that there are at least two of them who have one dark eye, and one white. I have never heard of this before. At first I had only seen one, so I thought it was just a freak (not in the mean sense... just as in messed up genetics). But than I spotted a second one. Is this just a genetic quirk? Has it ever happened before? Is it a marble trait or something? I'm very currious about this. Also, even with all the research I did, I found very little information on eye colour genetics. Only two sites mentionned the white eye gene, and one said it was ressesive, and the other that it was dominant. Compleate contradictions. Either way, I would say about 30% of the fry have dark eyes, but I'm not too sure.
Thanks for all the input in advance!
(parents pics bellow)
