I am planning on getting some Red Koi Angels from work and I was just wondering what size and/or age angels generally need to be to start breeding. These guys are around 5cm.
Cheers Ben
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Mon Jan 15, 2007, 03:33 AM #1Hi, I'm New Here!
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Mon Jan 15, 2007, 11:26 AM #2Hi, I'm New Here!
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I am still hoping someone can help me. I have never kept angels and this is something i am having trouble finding out.
Ben
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Mon Jan 15, 2007, 11:45 AM #3Eternal Moderator
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Phew, a little patience Ben. Some of us have day time jobs as well
Angels need to be around 4 to 6 months to breed, size ranging from slightly larger than a 50 cent coin and upwards.Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P
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Mon Jan 15, 2007, 12:27 PM #4Hi, I'm New Here!
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sorry abut the impatience lol, Thanks for that merrilyn. I really wanted to know before tomorrow so I can get a few nice ones from work. I move the fish out to the shop front tomorrow and wanted to get the pick of the bunch. There are a few with a nice shape and quite alot of red
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Cheers again ben
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Tue Jan 16, 2007, 02:42 AM #5Eternal Moderator
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Go for the redest ones you can find Ben.
Line breeding them will increase the amount of red on the body. You may even be the first to breed an all red angel. Now that would be something :P
Love to see some photos when you get them settled in. I'm pretty keen on the red kois myself.Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P
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Tue Jan 16, 2007, 11:16 AM #6Hi, I'm New Here!
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I have picked a few with the most amount of red there was. I'll let them settle for a week or so before I post a pic, although I put up a pick in my gallery of one.
Ben
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Mon Jan 29, 2007, 04:56 AM #7Hi, I'm New Here!
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if your angels are true koi, you'll find line breeding tends to lose the red, out of 400 young only about 50 will show the original koi colour the rest will be gold marbled or black and white. you must breed koi with a orange headed black marble to maintain 100% koi coloured young which will maintain all the red colouring.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007, 09:18 PM #8Blue Diamond Discus
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you are realy a big kill joy fishhead all we can do is give things ago and see what happens
Good luck fishnben!
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Tue Jan 30, 2007, 03:29 AM #9Hi, I'm New Here!
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Oh I don`t know I think fishnben joy would be a lot less when his beautiful reds turned out black and white young.I just saved him a lot of time and effort and gave him the info to produce hopefully even better more coloured young.I thought that was the idea of the forum.To help sorry if I`m wrong.
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Tue Jan 30, 2007, 07:19 AM #10Hi, I'm New Here!
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Cheers for the info fishhead, I have never seen any of the orange head black marbles available from wholesalers or the forums in the country, do you know of any around. Although like discusmad said I can only give it ago.
Also does anyone know of any sites with some good angel genetics info or do they wish to post some genetics stuff in this forum?
Cheers Ben
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