Crowntail Doubletail Project Genealogical Chart
To zoom on genealogical chart (so you can read it!) - Click on the picture to go to my photobucket page, where you can magnify it using the small magnifying glass in the bottom-right corner of the picture (TWICE).
My favorite triband CT female to date :)
So far, I am pretty happy with the direction that this line is going. I will be updating this chart as I add more crosses to it. Right now, I am debating whether to continue with the branch on the right (which essentially has lost the DT influence) or to put all focus on the line on the left. The red and blue cross ray on the right is a magnificent CT, however, and I think I might cross him to one of his daughters just to have more CTs by him.
After thinking about it for a while, I'm actually going to cross the CTDT from Justin to the RBOS daughter from the right hand side. I hope that she passes on her good qualities (smooth topline, impressive webbing reduction, balance in the unpaired fins) as well as her sire's qualities (impressive thick crossrays, caudal spread). I hope that the waspish waist is balanced by the robust body of the CTDT. I would like to preserve the genetics of the fish on the right hand side, and there is a chance they will produce CTDTs as well.
I am very excited to watch the lines develop on the left - I am getting closer and closer to a nice CTDT. The black and red CTDT obtained from Justin at Ocean Aquarium was the perfect outcross, and that spawn is coming along very nicely.
I somewhat serendipitously incorporated the striking triband coloration (see female at left). Although I did not originally intend to have a line of tribanded CTs, I now like the color pattern so much that I can't let it go. Onwards to a triband CTDT!
After thinking about it for a while, I'm actually going to cross the CTDT from Justin to the RBOS daughter from the right hand side. I hope that she passes on her good qualities (smooth topline, impressive webbing reduction, balance in the unpaired fins) as well as her sire's qualities (impressive thick crossrays, caudal spread). I hope that the waspish waist is balanced by the robust body of the CTDT. I would like to preserve the genetics of the fish on the right hand side, and there is a chance they will produce CTDTs as well.
I am very excited to watch the lines develop on the left - I am getting closer and closer to a nice CTDT. The black and red CTDT obtained from Justin at Ocean Aquarium was the perfect outcross, and that spawn is coming along very nicely.
I somewhat serendipitously incorporated the striking triband coloration (see female at left). Although I did not originally intend to have a line of tribanded CTs, I now like the color pattern so much that I can't let it go. Onwards to a triband CTDT!