I just bouight two red wag (I think) platies, female too young to breed. The female is lightly calico on the top of her body. The male has only a spotty black area in the tail area where there is usually solid black.
They are from two different breeders, so genetically diverse. I'm hoping to get an interesting lightly speckled variety that I might want to try to breed true through inbreeding - which I know weakens the fish, but at least i'll be starting with a very robust gene pool, hopefully.
Can anyone recommend stuff to read - or a place to discuss this (which might be right here...). I hear from other osts that it tkes years and lots of genetic knowledge to perfect and breed true a new color strain. I'll probably bore of the effort way before that, but I'd like to try something fun like this. Would it be better to breed the red wag to a totaly different color and hope for something a lot more unique than I'm likely to get with these two?
How often do people combine two different colors and search fro unique offspring? I've heard the new colors often skip a generation ???
Thanks
Jim
thanks
They are from two different breeders, so genetically diverse. I'm hoping to get an interesting lightly speckled variety that I might want to try to breed true through inbreeding - which I know weakens the fish, but at least i'll be starting with a very robust gene pool, hopefully.
Can anyone recommend stuff to read - or a place to discuss this (which might be right here...). I hear from other osts that it tkes years and lots of genetic knowledge to perfect and breed true a new color strain. I'll probably bore of the effort way before that, but I'd like to try something fun like this. Would it be better to breed the red wag to a totaly different color and hope for something a lot more unique than I'm likely to get with these two?
How often do people combine two different colors and search fro unique offspring? I've heard the new colors often skip a generation ???
Thanks
Jim
thanks
