Martinismommy

Do these look like possible DT fry to you?

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Shawnie

omg look at their bellies! LOL ...too funny..did u see my dt boy I found awile ago ?

Martinismommy

NO when did you have a double tail? They aren't fat are they? lolololol Post a picture of him if you can..

Shawnie

ah honey, they arent fat yet because they have weeny teeeny bellies but you can sooooo see they are on their way LOL

heres my boy
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Martinismommy

He's gorgeous!!!!!!!! Do you still have him? Do you see the split in the babies tails or am I going Coo Coo? lol

Shawnie

oh yes I still have him...just got him a month or so ago...hes amazing ...and I sure did see the splits...whats the chances they are dt?

Martinismommy

I know Vanitas line carries the DT gene just wasn't expecting it in this MG litter...

That boy of yours is gorgeous! Where in the world did you find him?

Shawnie

LOL pet paradise... A fishstore near where I work...just had to have the poor fella...he thanks you for the nice comment

how will you ever watch these tiny two among the hundreds? im curious how they fill out

Martinismommy

I'm sure if there are 2 like this that there are more....My eyesight is so poor I can't see them unless I take a photo and blow it up! lol

Pandora

I don't think those guys are... usually when they're dt they look like they have a hm spread at that age because the doubling gives so much extra fin. It looks like mickey mouse ears lol.
Are you able to count the dorsal rays on the parents? It should give an idea of whether you're likely to get dt fry... I think it's if there's 12 or more they probably carry dt. Or 10 or more. I'll look it up in a bit for ya.

Shawnie

awww darn...was hoping she said "yessssa those are dt's"

Pandora

Sorry!
I could be wrong too... much harder to tell from pictures!
Anyway, couldn't find the page on dorsal length again... but my trad pk's who definitely don't carry dt have 10-11 dorsal rays... so 12 + is probably carrying it.

Martinismommy

Thank you Pandora..I know nothing about DT's but thought it was interesting to see the edges on the babies tails..I'd never seen anything like this before..

Pandora

Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of dt's, but they really help get nice hm's with full dorsals, etc. so I kind of had to learn a bit! Most of my hm's carry it now, since wide dorsals are one of the things I've been trying to select for more recently (kept getting annoyingly thin ones), so I've been doing a lot of dorsal ray counting. It's easier if you can take a clear picture of the dorsal than trying to count as they're moving around. In a few weeks, though you'll know for sure if they're dt's or not! No need for annoying ray counting if so.

Martinismommy

I'll just wait it out.....I'm in no hurry they aren't going anywhere anytime soon lol....I'm hoping to get something to show at the IBC in June...So far I have my halfmoon Mercy......

Are you planning on attending?

Pandora

No, I'll be off in Australia by then. I'll have to look into the chapters there. I know there's a few shows, I think there was one in Sydney not too long ago, so I may get to finally get to a show there.
That would be wonderful if you could enter some of your lil ones!