MonteSS
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From what I've seen the Orange Flash strain has had the color emphasized more than the finnage. There is a photo by Koji Yamazaki in Matsuzaka (1997) that shows one of the original Orange Flash strains. This fish lacks the intense, pure, orange colored fins of modern Orange Flash and it even shows pale ocelli in the caudal. It is a young specimen, but does show long front dorsal spines. Hopefully, now that the color is so good, breeders will try to bring back the high dorsal spines.
Hi Mike, im new to line breeding if you call it that, but how would someone get orange flash to bring out the high dorsal spines?
would it be just chancing on an orange flash that shows this trait and breeding him?
Hi Mike, im new to line breeding if you call it that, but how would someone get orange flash to bring out the high dorsal spines?
would it be just chancing on an orange flash that shows this trait and breeding him?
From my limited experience I have had cacs that took several months of high quality NLS food and live daphnia to see a marked growth in the dorsal fin. I'm not sure if the reverse is possible but I'm sure that a dry food diet saw the extension drop somewhat or maybe just less flaring at least.
hmmm, ive got a wild cross orange flash male with a large extended dorsal fin, i will grow on some orange flash and pick him a good female to breed from as im unsure if the female he bred with at the minute is pure orange flash as she could be cross with a triple red.ive always bred mine back to wild caughts or f1s to get the high dorsal extensions and then back to an unrealted orange flash a bit like i did with the quad reds