German Blue and Electric Blue offspring

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Chewy

Discussion Starter · #1 · Sep 9, 2013

Hello Everyone, new to the forum, but for the past 3 years I've been doing experiments with mixing the two strains of the German Blue and the Electric blue rams and about 8 months ago I had my first successful batch of colors, traits, and smaller size I wanted to achieve!

The Experiment:
For my personal reference I wanted to see if I'd be able to get the the black markings and pink belly from the GBR and get more intense electric blue iridescent spects.

Result:
Out of the 15 frys that survived I got 3 true electric blues no markings, 10 regular looking GBR's and 2 that was really close for what I was going for. The two that I'm keeping have the black markings of the GBR with a pale body with intense electric blue scales, fins are also a vibrant blue with red tips, the overall size of all 15 frys are about 1/2in smaller then my other 8 months GBR and Electric blues, i did breed the size down 1/2in after doing some selective breeding after my first couple of spawning 3 years ago.

I'm Also in the works of trying to breed a new color strain for these rams! I've notice that I have alot of females that are nearly a purple color and I've been working on a year long experiment trying to get that strain so I'll keep you guys posted on how that goes maybe i'll be able to get some electric purple rams!!!!!

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#5 · Sep 9, 2013

here are a couple of my 2 1/2 month old German Blue Diamond longfins.

The electric blue is a female and the GBD is a male, they are brother and sister.

This GBD strain was developed by Matt13/Mark on this forum. I purchased a pair in June and bred them successfully three times, resulting in 40+ surviving babies of different ages growing out right now.

I have noticed golds, electric blues and the incredible blue diamond in the offspring. This blue diamond has more blue sparkles on the body/fins than any other German Blue ram I have seen anywhere else.

I am hoping these two will spawn and I get an even more unique coloration out of the results.

Pics of your offspring would be great so we can compare colors.
I love the electric blues a lot. This color with black markings would be spectacular.