The photo is of a young (about 3.5 - 4 months old) male Skyblue OB Peacock Cichlid. This is a domestic (commercial) strain we developed around 2005 from a couple of males that appeared in our Gold OB Peacocks. I gave those two males about 40 Gold OB females. I then mated the resulting females ... Read More
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Gold OB Peacock Cichlid
The photo is of a young (about 3.5 months old) male Gold OB Peacock Cichlid. This is a domestic (commercial) strain we developed starting in 2003 from fish we acquired from a Florida fish farm. From those original fish we have developed several color varieties. In our Gold OB line, we are able to ... Read More
Blue OB Peacock Cichlid
The top photo is of a young (about 4 months old) male Blue OB Peacock Cichlid. The bottom photo is a young female, probably the male’s half-sister, of the same age. This is a domestic (commercial) strain we developed starting in 2003 from fish we acquired from a Florida fish farm. From those ... Read More
Pigeon Blood Sailfin Molly
The photo is of a mature female Pigeon Blood Sailfin Molly. This is a domestic (commercial) molly strain we developed in 1999 while our hatchery was still in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The strain resulted from a cross of Poecilia latipinna, San Antonio River, a population of wild sailfins I collected ... Read More
Particolor Dolphin Cichlid
The photo is of a mature male Particolor Dolphin Cichlid. Our Dolphin Cichlids, which presently come in several varieties including Particolor, Royal Blue, Blue OB, Gold OB, Red-Finned Blue, Skyblue OB, and Blue & Gold, are aquarium strains we’ve been working on since 2006. To develop these ... Read More
Green Sailfin Molly
The photo is of a mature male Green Sailfin Molly. This is an aquarium strain fish we’ve been working on for quite some time. To develop this strain, we have crossed three wild sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, P. petenensis, and P. velifera and have selected for large, colorful males. We ... Read More
Black Sailfin Molly
The photo is of a mature Black Sailfin Molly. What doesn’t show well in the photo is the thin orange stripe on the top edge of his dorsal fin. We started raising mollies commercially in 1998, starting with Gold Sailfins, Red Leopard Lyretails, and Poecilia latipinna, San Antonio River. During ... Read More
Blue Empress Peacock Cichlid
The photo is of a mature pair of Blue Empress Peacock Cichlids. It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, the top fish is the female and the bottom one the male. This is an aquarium strain fish of questionable origin and parentage; therefore, I don’t provide a scientific name. My ... Read More
Young Pair Goldwag Sailfin
The photo is of a young pair (about 3 months old) of our Goldwag Sailfin Mollies. This strain was one of the first we developed from a cross in 1998 of a male Gold Sailfin Molly we bought from a customer in Albuquerque, New Mexico with female Poecilia latipinna, San Antonio River which I had ... Read More
Red Tuxedo Plumetail Platies
We have been busy transferring the plumetail characteristic to all of our platies, both maculatus type and variatus type. For an idea of what a plumetail is, see the photo of a male. Then compare it to the photo of a male without a plumetail. Plumetail is a dominant gene. I originally raised ... Read More