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plumetail hifin platies
By josh117 from the lol department, Section Diaries Posted on Sat May 24, 2008 at 06:56:39 AM PST Tags: (all tags)

My platy had babies a few months ago and there was one plumetail.

I separated that plumetail and it got pregnant with a hifin platy, hopefully most of the babies will have both genes and will create orange/black hifin plumetail platies

Ps: my albino mollies are about to drop

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plumetail hifin platies | 5 comments (5 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

That is interesting about the plumetail/hifin (none / 0) (#1)
by unclescott on Tue May 27, 2008 at 08:32:30 PM PST

cross. The plumetail, coming from regular parents likely had one gene for regular fins and one for plumetail. Plumetail is dominant over the regular gene, something a bit unusual in fish sports.

So only some of the off spring might be plumetail. It will be interesting to see. Probably available somewhere on the net is whether regular fins are dominant over the gene for highfin. My guess is that they are and that you will have to wait until the second generation (back crossing the youngsters) to see hi-fins. If you were using a 100% plumetail, that might still be the case.

Having been out of town five days and still sorting things out, I've not been keeping up here. (Delighted to see the maintenance here though!) How about if both of us look around for platy genetics and hi-fin x regular fin platys?

Re: That is interesting about the plumetail/hifin (none / 0) (#2)
by josh117 on Wed May 28, 2008 at 03:22:31 PM PST

she was apparently the only one out of all of the babies to have the plumetail when her dad was a nice full red mickey mouse plumetail.

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But Dad may have been one part plumetail (none / 0) (#3)
by unclescott on Wed May 28, 2008 at 07:18:47 PM PST

and one part regular. Also, had the female been with other males back at the shop? Maybe there was another gene involved in the tails. One out of 10? 30? when the gene is dominant is hard to otherwise explain.

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Re: But Dad may have been one part plumetail (none / 0) (#4)
by josh117 on Sun Jun 01, 2008 at 09:50:30 AM PST

I dont know but i found the regular female and the plumetail male in the plumetail tank with only plumetails, but who knows, maybe.

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Would you know how long they had been there? (none / 0) (#5)
by unclescott on Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 06:10:38 AM PST

What we don't know is who was she with (at the wholesaler's or fish farm) when she last dropped and would be most easily impregnated. Still the math probabilities are puzzling on this one.

In my modest experience plume tails show their extended tail rays pretty young. Was that your experience with that one? Are there some young siblings of that fish you could still keep an eye on?

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plumetail hifin platies | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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