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Calilasseia    *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003   | After the thread I posted on variant Pandas, it's time for another one ... variant Cardinals! The last surviving Cardinal from my old batch has completely clear fins. The new ones? They've got white rays in the dorsal and anal fins! Thes white rays are the anteriormost rays - bit like those seen on Glowlights - and pretty conspicuous when you look at the fish against a dark background such as the Java Moss forests I have in the Panda Fun Palace™ ... Plus, we've already had another variation in circulation - the so-called 'goldback' Cardinal (I had one of these before my October wipeout), whose back scales, instead of being a dark brown, are a shimmering brassy-gold colour. Wonder how many more variations we're going to get among Cardinals?  |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:38 |      |
Bob Wesolowski  Mega Fish Posts: 1379 Kudos: 1462 Registered: 14-Oct-2004  | I wonder about the source of your mutant fish. Are these wild imports that are showing species differentiation or are the fish the result of breeding in the Czech Republic or the Far East? __________ "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." researched from Steven Wright |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:38 |  |
| Calilasseia *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003 | Don't know the ultimate provenance of their ancestors, but this latest batch were local bred. What the parents were, though, is anyone's guess.  |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:38 | |
Natalie   Ultimate Fish Guru Apolay Wayyioy Posts: 4499 Kudos: 3730 Votes: 348 Registered: 01-Feb-2003   | Usually about half of the Cardinals my store gets in their shipments have the white in their fins you mentioned. Whether is has to do with sexual dimorphism or is just natural variance I'm not sure, but they are pretty common around here. I haven't seen any Gold Back Cardinals in a couple months though. I gave the two I had to some good customers with a huge planted tank and a school of about 30 other Cardinals.  I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash. |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:38 |   |
| Calilasseia *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003 | I'm still on the lookout for some goldbacks. Though getting some goldbacks and finding out if they breed 'true' is definitely a long term project for the moment ... |
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