Endler Strain Campoma Nr.7

Well, one of the wild endler strains I'm keeping and breeding is the Campoma nr.7.
In September 2015 I had my first pairs of this strain from a slovenian friend of mine when I was judging during the international endler championship in Germany. This strain is still with me and they're doing well. Last year, I let another group of these endlers join the exsisting colony of mine. It turned out that this new group were later generations of offspring from the ones I've distributed before. Despite of the blood relationship, I could still use them for they became a bit far related. This addition made the bloodline stronger.
It's a colorful and slender build wildstrain. And also very reproductive...

 

Wow! Can you post a video?

 

When I've got more spare time left, I'll try to make a video of them....

 

Gorgeous!! I especially love the male in the foreground in the second picture--that pale iridescence, black and then orange streak on the tail is quite eye catching when it's as distinct as that!

I did a massive netting yesterday, to reduce my mixed lot of hybrids down to barred chili/scarlets (and one lime-bar and one cobra who I couldn't catch). All the others are headed to the lfs tonight. Wish I had access to as pure of wild-stock as you do there in Europe--here everything I've found in fish stores are hybrids, and even ordering to have them shipped is chancy. Ah well--my chilI hybrids are lovely and I have enough that my foundation should be pretty firm.

 

Gorgeous!! I especially love the male in the foreground in the second picture--that pale iridescence, black and then orange streak on the tail is quite eye catching when it's as distinct as that!

I did a massive netting yesterday, to reduce my mixed lot of hybrids down to barred chili/scarlets (and one lime-bar and one cobra who I couldn't catch). All the others are headed to the lfs tonight. Wish I had access to as pure of wild-stock as you do there in Europe--here everything I've found in fish stores are hybrids, and even ordering to have them shipped is chancy. Ah well--my chilI hybrids are lovely and I have enough that my foundation should be pretty firm.

Well, shipping fish from abroad is always a risk. You have to keep your hopes high that they will reach you safe and sound. They may even get lost during shipment.
In a way it's weird why you guys have more problems to get pure endler strains into the US while you're way more closer to the source than we in Europe are. But it's true that we have way more wild strains overhere.

But I do have both wild strains and fancy strains (wether fancies are hybrids or just linebred from a wild strain). A lot of people do forget that even wild strains that are linebred (take staeck endlers for instance) are officially fancy straisn as well. The wellknown linebred staeck endler has a short tail while the wild phenotypes have single or doublswords. But there are more linebred wild strains.

I do have to admit that most lfs's overhere are also selling hybrids (mostly random bred hybrids). They like that more because of the diversity and just the fact that they've got endler blood in them. It's a kind of a hype overhere to keep endlers. So most people just purchase those random hybrids because of the lower price tag in comparison to the pure ones or even in comparison to the fancy strains.

Breeders like us will get their hands on the pure strains through other networks.