painted fire red cherries. In australia? or not? opinions please, i say no

[Gbang]

Discussion time!!! and yes i might offend some people but facts are facts. if people claim they have painted fire cherries...why don't they ever show people their males? particularly in Australia, i have never seen anyone show me a MALE.

to this day i have seen many amazing females but not one single male.

Open to discussion and please, PROVE ME WRONG, cause i wanna buy painted fire red cherries ;) so if you do prove me wrong, please be prepared for a friend and pm notification :P

please see this link with male painted fire red cherries.

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/showthread.php/73993-Advise-on-Breeding-Quality-Fire-Red-Shrimps

[Gbang]

personally, i feel that as proof, all claims of people with painted fire red cherries should include a photo of a male with their female counterpart or at least in the same tank

[Kaizen088]

Male or female??

[blindfisherman]

Male or female??

Going to have a guess at female. I think I can see what looks like a saddle forming.

Very nice shrimp whichever sex it is.

[Kaizen088]

Hmmm...

Gbang's got me on a mission to find at least 1 male.

Surely I can't have all females...

I did do a major cull recently and only kept the strongest reds though.

About 10 out of about 400 mixed grade Cherries.

[Ziek]

Not sure if this would qualify? Sorry for the bad shots first time taking macros and using my new 100m lens and flash

[Gbang]

Wow ziek that is an amazing cherry!!! It's it of painted fire quality but again. It's the male that proves painted fire genetics and bloodline. Any pics of the male?

[smicko]

A pic of my best male (middle) thinking sakura or painted. Definitely not painted fire as I can just see the saddle on the females. Come to thinking about it this is the best male I have ever had and I haven't seen any painted males. Could they be line bred or would you need some of the original strain? Maybe that can be a new project for someone.

Cheers Mick

[Gbang]

Very nice mick! I think it's a case of us just line breeding them to overseas level. If we want to do things the legal way

[Naraic]

This project was a pet of mine but was stalled by genetic stock and no market, I can speak for at least one other who is EXTREMELY interested in line breeding Australias own PAINTED reds though.

[Gbang]

we all do mate. it's gonna take a while :(

[Naraic]

Hopefully the more people trying the sooner we see results eh.