Blue Velvet Cherry

[michael]

Hi all just thought id share a couple of pics of sone of my blue velvets from my colony these are only f3 originally breed from red rili blue gene but the colour coming alone nicely.

nice big saddled female

her young mate

[BlueBolts]

Very nice....great to see your persistence paying off ! Well done mate.

[Squiggle]

Very cool pics dude, colour looks sooo good, well done mate! :encouragement:

[michael]

Thanks guys thats why I wanted some of your blue cherries (chocolate line) marcus to cross with this line to see what comes of it.

[Heavyd]

You've made some good progress with your blues. Nice work!

[Kev]

Love these blue!

Looking good, thank you for sharing.

[michael]

thought id update some pics of my blue velvets

[michael]

a couple more pics

[Gbang]

Oh that's niiiiiiiice

[blackcat]

Tried to pm but ur msg inbox is full

[michael]

Thanks so much gee. Im seeing the colour get stronger and more solid every generation.

[ineke]

They are very nice Michael. Well done. :encouragement:

Just as an after thought is it OK to mix the Blue Velvet with the Blues from chocolates? I am just starting my line of Blue Velvets and as F1 they are quite pale although there is one male with a reasonable blue colour. I have quite a few light blues from chocolate but wasn't sure if I should mix them or not. Any thoughts would be welcome

[michael]

I have got every intention of crossing mine with some blues from chocolates. I am going to put a couple of females with some males to try it in a contoled environment. That way it doesnt ruin either line. Thats my opinion anyways

[ineke]

I might see how my first babies turn out and by then my Chocolate blues will have matured a bit so I can give that a go myself. It just means keeping that lot of crossed shrimp separate until they breed true. I think BB said his had been breeding true and then suddenly had chocolates coming through instead of or as well as blues. My problem with my Chocolate blues is they will change colour depending on the ph of their water. They are much better in low ph around 6.5 than they are in anything over 7. But my lines are all very early days yet.

[michael]

Let me know how u go with that. These guys have really nice solid colour and im very happy with it. Hopefully it keeps getting stronger. I currently have 4 tanks of blues im working on 3 different lines each with different colouring.

[ineke]

Sounds very interesting Michael . Hope you keep us updated with the results. It would be good to hear how you go. The Blue Velvets you have are a very nice colour.

[michael]

Mine are currently in a ph of 6.5 but that does fluctulate slightly. I do want to get a colony of choc blues to play with. I found one of my blues with a very light colour and a white saddle so im holding out hope that it might be a snowball. But i thought they were breed from something else.

[ineke]

Yes I thought so too? I've just moved a heap of blue chocolates into a higher ph tank today . They were a reasonable Blue but it will be interesting to see how they look tomorrow once they get over the stress of the higher ph. So far only a quarter of the blues I have moved on other occasions have stayed blue most turned black or dark chocolate. Maybe I need to keep them in the lower ph to develop the colour and then change them to the higher ph. It's just most people keep cherries above 7 so I want mine to stay blue at the higher ph.

I have heaps of babies coming on in the Chocolates in various depth of colour and the breeding females that are my main stock seem to drop one lot of babies and berry up almost straight away. I will need to do another big clean out pretty soon so maybe we can do a swap instead of you buying some.

[michael]

For sure i can bring some back with me to adelaide for u.

[ineke]

Let me know when you come to Adelaide again and I will sort some out for you to look at.

[michael]

Im coming back this week. Ill bring some back how many would u like

[ineke]

I will pm you as I don't think we are supposed to do swaps outside of the classifieds area.

[michael]

Sorry mods i forgot we werent ment to do this please delete any posts that arent ment to be

[blackcat]

Aweeeesommmmmeeeeee

[michael]

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A few new pics of some of my blues