The Tropheus Duboisi "Maswa"

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Hey Gang,

I have been growing out a group of fry from my 2 best females and another group of F1 from a different lineage. My plan it to produce two breeding groups by taking only the best few males and females from each group and swapping the males out to only allow unrelated males to spawn with other unrelated females... I have 3 linages that I'm working with at this point. Looking for another group. I know that I don't perfection here but I'm working with what I was left after the bug that I got from a known source. It is what it is.

They're not a whole lot to look at this point but you can see some nice stripes coming through slowly. I'm hoping to get quite a few females from my group and to use the nicest male from the smaller group.

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Looking awesome Drew...some great looking bands coming through for sure...you will end up with a few lovely groups there with great genetic diversity...good one...is there a female or 2 holding in the bottom tank already?

[ben]

Top marks for effort, lfs here are full of tank bred to death Dub's with broken or next to no bars but if you go to a good importer they are stunning like you said in the reply on YouTube closer importers get the cream of the crop so to speak.

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Feb 8, 2016 14:02:28 GMT -5 ... said:

Looking awesome Drew...some great looking bands coming through for sure...you will end up with a few lovely groups there with great genetic diversity...good one...is there a female or 2 holding in the bottom tank already?

Thanks. yes the ones in the bottom tank have held for some time now. I've only kept a few that were ready and threw in with the Regani fry.

Feb 8, 2016 15:00:37 GMT -5 ben said:

Top marks for effort, lfs here are full of tank bred to death Dub's with broken or next to no bars but if you go to a good importer they are stunning like you said in the reply on YouTube closer importers get the cream of the crop so to speak.

Thanks. Yeah it's crazy the ones you see out in fish stores.

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Ah cool man, that's sweet...how many & how big are the F2's you got in with the Regani?
So 1 F1 group is from your wild stock, what about the other? This is a great project Drew. Be great to get decent fry back onto the lfs scene. Well done mate!

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

They are SUPER Tiny. Like 1/4"...

yes, F1's from my group and the others are from *********** stock. I was told they are nice but I will probably only get 3-4 out of 10 that are decent... But I have to work with what I got. I paid WAY to much for them to for the quality. But oh well. I'm not worries about that anymore.

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only 3-4 outta 10...bummer for you mate...maybe super good for me...maybe... ;D

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Feb 8, 2016 22:47:03 GMT -5 ... said:

only 3-4 outta 10...bummer for you mate...maybe super good for me...maybe... ;D

lol- I know. Sucks I paid so much for them too. $20 each from SIC in NJ... Figured that they'd better than they were for that price.

They'd make a good Halembe Colony though. Which are Narrow Yellow bands. These are the reasons that the dominant narrow genes are coming out of them. Stronger Halembe genes in those other ones than Maswa genes...

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Gotcha...maybe I can raise some fry from them for ya as a home school project with my boys and sell some fry here in Toledo to recover some of your initial expenses...

[ben]

Feb 9, 2016 10:10:54 GMT -5 Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7 said:

Sucks I paid so much for them too. $20 each from SIC in NJ...

That's about £13 here which isn't too bad, I can get 5cm f1's for £9 each which is about $13 and the parents look like this :



Image from Mike at riftvalleycichlids.com