Ap. Cacatuoides "Super Red"

[cacatuoides]

Hi folks,

Pardon the poor quality pictures. This is my pair of cacatuoides which produced 3 batches of fries since october last year. thanks :biggrin:

Male

Female

Fry at 8weeks old

 

[Mike Wise]

Very impressive! A quadruple (4X) Red Cockatoo! What next red pectorals??

 

[cacatuoides]

Thanks Mike. I've managed to pick up this fellow from a shipment from Peru, in your opinion, what may have caused the ventral fin to be red....something unique and rare in cacatuoides....:biggrin:

Its fries have also developed full coloration and a little extended caudal fin at such young age, only 8 weeks old...

 

[aquaticclarity]

Nice fish!

Mike,

Some of the offspring I'm raising that have come from stock from Ted are showing the same thing. Two of the male triple red cacatuoides fry that I kept back for myself each have a single red ventral fin. Each fish has the opposite fin of the other fish colored...one has a red left ventral while the other fish has a red left ventral.

cacatuoides,

It looks like that may be the case with your fish? Only one of the ventral fins is red and the other is "clear"?

Jeff

 

[Mike Wise]

I've managed to pick up this fellow from a shipment from Peru

I find it hard to believe that any wild A. cacatuoides ever looked like this. Wild gray morphs might have 1 or 2 black ringed orange ocelli on the tail, but no more. It has got to be a domestic strain.

 

[Zapisto]

I find it hard to believe that any wild A. cacatuoides ever looked like this. Wild gray morphs might have 1 or 2 black ringed orange ocelli on the tail, but no more. It has got to be a domestic strain.

actually
never see wild cacatoo with lot of orange on tail, and as mike said most of the wild shippement i had see are greyish or blueish.

even if wild shippement always reserve me surprise , i doubt it is a wild fish

 

[Genes]

I believe all cacatuoides "triple reds", "super reds" are all aquarium strain. The wild caught cacatuoides i have seen so far are all greyish or slight bluish in colouration.

 

[cacatuoides]

Yes, I agree with all too....this male is definitely aquarium-bred and never a wild strain....as for why the shop said it to be from peru, may not mean that it is wild caught but maybe it is bred there?

As long as the fish turns out great is more important....:biggrin:

This is the most recent picture of the alpha male from my first batch of fries, now at 10 weeks old

 

[pjvtrash]

Triple and 1/2 red cockatoos

<It looks like that may be the case with your fish? Only one of the ventral fins is red and the other is "clear"?>



I also have a male cacatuoides with one red ventral fin. He is the offspring of a male that I picked up at a gcca auction from "Tea", also in southern Wisconsin. I wonder how common that trait is, or if these fish have some common ancestor in that area from whom it all started.

 

[eklikewhoa]

Man!!! these guys are stunning!

 

[cacatuoides]

Man!!! these guys are stunning!

Thanks!! :biggrin:

 

[eklikewhoa]

If you are in the states and have male fry later on let me know! I would like to add some of that to my bloodline!

 

[cacatuoides]

If you are in the states and have male fry later on let me know! I would like to add some of that to my bloodline!

Sorry to inform you that I'm from Singapore.... :redface:
I'm sure there are good genes of cacatuoides in US too...
I'll love to share too! :biggrin: