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Old 09-22-2013, 02:51 PM
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Well done! Nice looking fish too!

Paddy is right though, two Black Ice make Black Ice babies. It is "proper" to keep the naming consistent, but you can add your "brand" ahead of the name. You can use "Astro" as your brand name in place of "SA" or "ORA". If these ones are "Astro Black Ice" then future fish might be "Astro Picasso" or "Astro Clarkii". That is the "proper" way to name fish so that lineage isn't lost. If you're just a hobbyist breeder, and not a producer then it really doesn't matter much though since you would just be supplying your local market.

I'm not sure what your intentions are in the future, but I would like to warn you that continually producing large numbers of "designer" fish that normally sell at high prices you will flood your market and will be forced to either sell below value and then devalue the fish in your area which just hurts the captive bred market as a whole. If you can't sell them, they will get too big and will start to kill each other. Please don't ever produce more fish than you can sell at fair market price.

Keep up the good work, and keep in mind the big picture.
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