Fwd: Re: What does a agassizii really look like.

["Ed Pon" <edpon@hotmail.com>]

Bob wrote:
>Aggies come in as many color morphs as Pseudotropheus zebra, at least.  
maybe
>more.  The first ones I owned were plain brownish in the body with 
brilliant
>orange tails.  At that time (early 80's) there were commonly seen 
red-tails
>and purple-tails as well.  But over the past several years, as the ful 
range
>of the aggie's natural habitat has been explored, multitudinous 
variations
>have been found.
>
>Bob 
>

When Uwe Romer spoke at the San Francisco Aquarium Society meeting one 
to two years ago, he mentioned that all the color morphs of aggies are 
in the genes of all aggies (my translation of what I though I heard).  
In other words, if you get any pair of aggies and bred them through 
enough generations, you should be able to isolate all the color morphs 
by using various selection methods.  

Some years ago, I remember reading in Aquarium digest that Bitaeniata, I 
think they were still being called Kleei at the time, will throw both 
red and blue individuals in their spawns.  Perhaps this is also true of 
Bitaeniatas.


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