Breeding Question

[BettaBum873]

If you VT/CT you'll get 25% VTs, 50% Combtails, and 25% crowntails, is this correct??

 

[fawnmodel]

No you will not get any crowntails.
You will get all veiltails, some with mild combing or fringe.

Cross breeding tailtypes is a real waste of time, as your spawns from this breeding to produce fish with finnage that is not 'desireable' under either true type, really.

 

[BettaBum873]

errg I meant cross a male CT with a female VT/CT I thought i wrote that, sorry

 

[splashluff]

What kind of finnage does the female VT/CT have? It really depends, and it's a big gamble. You could easily end up with all comby VT's, which IMHO is not really worth the space/time/money, and I'd think it would be easier to just buy a female CT.

How are the kids you got from me? Any spawning action?

 

[BettaBum873]

They're all doing great! nope no spawning yet, I wanna give the male some time to grow up. I do plan on breeding one of the girlies to a MG SD I'm getting next week

 

[splashluff]

Sweet! A really cool guy from my Betta club just spawned one of my ladies with a MG HM boy, they had loads of eggs and the babies should turn out VERY pretty. Good luck with em!

 

[Synirr]

If the female is CT geno, yes, your numbers are correct. The only way you could possibly know this, however, is if she came from a breeder who expressly told you one of her parents was CT. Many non-CT fish have a little bit of combing, but it doesn't mean they carry the CT gene.