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Posted 11 Months ago #1
well I have about 16 fry now but i'm confused....both the parents were orange and there are some black and some orange fry...??
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Posted 11 Months ago #2
the live barer type of fish can hold a males "stuff" in them for like 4 births even with no male so if any other male was introduced even in the petstores a long time ago she can have there babys but that should fade after a few time breeding with your male
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Posted 11 Months ago #3
Okay I thought it was pretty funny....
I think the mom had something going on with the "mail fish"...
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Posted 11 Months ago #4
Ha Ha, that's pretty funny. Yep, dad was likely a different color.
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Posted 11 Months ago #5
Quite often, fry do not have the same colors or markings as their parents. Did you mean mail man or male man?
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Posted 11 Months ago #6
mail man but as a fish

but I did hear about that happening with chocolate labs.
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Posted 11 Months ago #7
Some fish also change colors as they mature.
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Posted 2 Months, 4 Weeks ago #8
Could this also be a result of both parents carrying recessive genes? (I don't even know if black is recessive or dominant or if it's a matter of codominance, but it just makes me wonder.) Though I do still think the more likely cause is, in fact, seperate fathers.
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Posted 2 Months, 4 Weeks ago #9
it very well could have to do with that KristinAnn. probibly more likely than there being a "mail man" in the tank.
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Posted 2 Months, 4 Weeks ago #10
It could be recessive genes or even two absentee fathers. It does happen.

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