Question about breeding Agassizii Double Red

[tolstoy21]

Quick question:

Can or will Apisotgramma Agassizii double red spawns pop out fire reds?

I had my first spawn of double reds a little while back, and now that I am growing them out, what I thought were females actually are beginning to look to me like super or fire reds.

The adult female of my pair is yellow/orange in color with a lateral stripe. While the young fish in question are overall reddish colored with a ting of purple under the dorsal fin (they look a lot like the fire reds I have).

I know these are color variants of the same fish, but I was just wondering if they are like caradina shrimp, in that mix-genetics lines can pop out a range of color variants.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mike Wise]

These are different color strains of domestic forms produced most likely from different forms/species of the agassizii-complex. If the strain that you have is not 'set', then any number of color forms are possible. Most populations of A. agassizii-like forms are polychromatic in the wild.

 

[tolstoy21]

These are different color strains of domestic forms produced most likely from different forms/species of the agassizii-complex. If the strain that you have is not 'set', then any number of color forms are possible. Most populations of A. agassizii-like forms are polychromatic in the wild.

Thanks for the reply Mike.