Maybe just a genetic thing. There are midget (or whatever the PC thing is to call them) humans. Aren't albinos in general missing some sort of chromasone (sp?) ? Just stabs in the dark, I really don't know, but it sounds logical.

Woe:

It would be neat if she is a genetic dwarf. If she would breed with my smallest male BN, the offspring would then carry the gene and eventually, I could produce Octo sized plecos.

Or, not. That's the real challenge with fish. Will they live? Will they spawn? If so: will the eggs be fertile? Will they hatch? Will the fry survive?

It's easier with the horses. It take a lot longer to see what you have, but at least they breed literally on command. LOL!

It may take a few breedings to make this hybrid. If you do it I'll buy a few. One thing I do want to find is zebra oto's they are really cool looking. I have had tons of Platy's, just standard reds, started with 4, 3 female one male. With in 3 weeks one female changed sex to male. A few matings later a sunset platy appeared, then 2 more later another sunset. Guess if I just isolated the sunsets "liter" after "liter" I would only get sunsets?

Have fun playing Dr. Moreau (sp?)

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I have a similar problem with Clown loaches .None are near potential size but one is still under two inches lol
The other three are around 5 .In my experience most stunted fish don''t sexually mature . Don't know if that would be true with yours .Might be worth a shot..
Woeisme. I got two pair of red wag swords in 82 and placed them in my pond. Today I have somewhere between 3 and 4 thousand off spring. Have only tried to cull them in one pool .Wanted red jet swords .Half black half red . After 25 years that is the one strain I do not have lol.
The majority are still red wag, red velvet ,yellow. pineapple,green all with or without the black fins .
I find this interesting as obviosly inbreeding does not lead to sterility or deformity. Even if you only figure 3 generations per year that's still 75 generations!!
Another point to this is the original red sword was a green sword x red platy because red does not occur in swords. Since the original was a hybrid to start with why have thet all not reverted back to green swords or red platies?? Those are still way in the minority.
I realise that swords and platies are obviously not two species but different forms of the same . Any thoughts on this??? gary

Woe:

Someone was offering zebra oto's on Aquabid last week.

Right now, my seemingly unlimited breeders are Gold Endlers. I spotted some golds in with the wild normals, so I isolated them and the next thing I knew, I had several tanks full of them.

But my next attempt will be Galaxy Rasboras. I have a long 20 set up for them, with sand over flourite, very densly planted and currently being made ready with some Indian Almond leaves, a bunch of sex happy Habrosus corys and a colony of red cherry shrimps, even more sex crazed than the cory's.

I get a real kick out of trying to get my fish to breed in more natural conditions. Yanking a pair out of their happy homes and dumping them into a breeding tank bores me, and probably pis--s the h--l out of the fish.