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Hi all, I have a group of fish which were sold to me as Red Zebra Minos Reef variant. My understanding is that the males are blue and the females are yellow/orange. I have 2 blue ones with 6 of the yellow and it now looks like two of the yellow ones are males. They certainly dominate the colony and are showing some egg spots. Just wondering if anyone else has kept these and if this is normal for them. I guess otherwise they may have been hybidised somewhere along the way. Any feedback would be appreciated.

thanks, Glenn

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Hi Glenn

Ps esterae AKA Tangerine Zebra AKA Red Zebra Minos reef

males are blue females are orange not pale orange /yellow and

definitely no black marking, but they do throw red males and

there was a period that the red males were preferred

thankfully the blue male is now the preferred option

having said this there is no telling the history of what we still have

you just have to pick the brightest orange females to breed from

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Hey Chris, thanks for the comments.. The you tubes I have looked at certainly back yuou up, my "females" are nowhere near as orange yet. The blue ones are a bit drab too but i think this is because of the two dominanat yellow males. Will pull them out of the group and see how it settles.

Cheers, Glenn

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I have a colony of red zebra, blue males orange females. I get the occasional light brown female come through and the breeder I got them off has had some ob females come through. I thought some of the females might be orange males as they had egg spots and were dominant but when I vented them they all vented female and have since held mouthfuls.

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I am interested to hear this, my fish are still too young to breed but I was wondering about the egg spots as some of the smaller orange ones are showing them too. Unfortunately i don't have the best eyesight so venting is difficult for me, it looks like I should wait a little longer before i pull out the two big orange ones.

thanks for the info.

Glenn

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Mine took a lot longer than 'normal' to start to breed consistently. And I lost a couple early on to aggression but they seemed to have sorted themselves out now and have started breeding well. If they are the same line as mine I wouldn't put much chop into egg spots I think all my girls have them to some degree

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Damn, I wish I could find some one with quality blue/orange And-Or. Solid deep orange morphs,,, willing to ship to Perth.

Everything here is all interbred losing the vividness with a odd nice one. (Pulu crossed with estherie).

Checked out some blue male morph type here,,, males looked as light as cobalt blues and females were a light apricot yellowy color, not good at all.

Seems to be heaps in QLD, but no ones willing to ship,, even if I buy bulk with other stuff included.

Looking for ages COL,,, (cry out loud).

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Females can show egg spot like Cobalt's do, so you need to vent sex

Buccal you are very right regarding the diluting of these with Pulu and

what ever else was sold as red zebra with hazy past linage

this is the problem with the hobby,popularity varies and fish are sold off

new people come into the hobby with nil knowledge and are only considered

a cash cow by a lot of LFS that are run and staffed by people that don't

have product knowledge of the livestock also

it comes down to a handful of fishkeepers that kept a species

long term that pulls those fish back into the hobby

I'm a firm believer that fish can be that common they become rare because they

are perceived to have no cash return

there are just too many species that need work to keep in the hobby compared to

people that have time, space and funds especially in the limited market we have

compared to overseas

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Females can show egg spot like Cobalt's do, so you need to vent sex

Buccal you are very right regarding the diluting of these with Pulu and

what ever else was sold as red zebra with hazy past linage

this is the problem with the hobby,popularity varies and fish are sold off

new people come into the hobby with nil knowledge and are only considered

a cash cow by a lot of LFS that are run and staffed by people that don't

have product knowledge of the livestock also

it comes down to a handful of fishkeepers that kept a species

long term that pulls those fish back into the hobby

I'm a firm believer that fish can be that common they become rare because they

are perceived to have no cash return

there are just too many species that need work to keep in the hobby compared to

people that have time, space and funds especially in the limited market we have

compared to overseas

I've even seen selling as cobalt blues with faint barring and forehead lines,, and that's a worry with cobalts to.

"So common they are forgotten about and lost". Yes I've seen this to many times,,, I woke up to this ages ago and have kept stashing species away,,, and wait till the time is right.

Unfortunately if a shop isn't a true specialist in this,,, then the cheaper fish by non-experienced breeders (not always) make it into there for sale tanks instead of the quality stuff by organized breeders.

It's a shame really but it happens.

The two main shops here in Perth has got this under wraps pretty well now.

The other raggity shops around here don't stock to much these days as they killed themselves with shady stock,,,, and the people traffic has well thinned out,,, they may say bad economy, lol, maybe partial, but a specialist can adapt and very on the ball with a eye for quality to attract the limited audience.

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Sorry buccal, I would love to help you out,hopefully i won't be so busy soon and have a chance to ship some over to you. My pulus have started breeding solidly. The colony was a very slow starter I have mixed it around a lot and seems to be the right mix at the moment. I will have pulus well before red/blues as they have been such a pain to get hold of I would like to grow a few out to hang onto.

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