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Originally Posted by Scott McD
It is only a small tank, and i'm gonna stick to just some nice guppies etc to start out with and see how i go from there.
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On our fourth generation of inbred guppies and cool offspring!
Finally got from the current lot 1 guppy out of 6 babies (or whatever baby fish are called) that survived the phenotype the kids were looking for - fluo-blue body with fire orange tail. Took four generations to get that crossing male fire orange tail guppies with a dull blue female (the males of hte blue were fluo). Took the males from that that were either fluo body and crappy yello tale or vivid fire orange tale and crappy blue body and crossed them with their father "fire tale". This gave females that the majority were fire tales and a dull blue body that we then crossed with and old male fluo blue body and 1 out of 6 guppies now has a fluo blue body with a fire tail.
Kids are stoked as it was their first lesson into dominant/recessive genetic alleles, shit genetics really.
My first home experiment too!
Pictures to come of that guppy once he gets out of the creche.