ejg Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Just after some info on the type of Estherae that have the blue male and orange female. (Seen some at the auction on the weekend) Cheers Eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViS Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Yeah I'd also like to know a bit more about them. I didn't know we had the variant here. I thought our estherae pool was the puulu and metangula. Do the blue / red estherae have a locality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I think there are 7 locations where M. estherae females display the O morph. Some locations only some females show this particular morph whereas at Minos Reef and Nkhungu the entire female population are completely red. There are also some populations that also have the OB morph. It is quite possible that the fish at the auction were from Metangula gene pool as it is one of the populations that O morph females are found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camo Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Hey Ask squidfish as he has some of the dimorphic type estherae. I am interested as well. Cheers Cameron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViS Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I was under the impression that the Tangerines (from metangula) we have here are the light orange for both male and female? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejg Posted March 10, 2006 Author Share Posted March 10, 2006 Does anybody Besides Squidfish have these ? Cheers Eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishfreak Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 The fish from last weeks auction were mine i put two colonies in of 2 males and 3 females, i do not know the location i thought they were all the same.They are rare, as the estherae we have or had were all orange but were originally the blue morph but orange males started turning up and people prefered to breed just the orange colour. These would be F2 as far as i know, only 1 colony came in i think??. John Back to nature guide. Pseudotropheus estherae Minos Reef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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