been wondering for a little while if anyone has managed to breed the super reds yet, or is it just bikerman so far.out of the 6 i have looks like ive got 2 male and 4 females ,colin.

He is the only one i know of but im sure it wont be long before someone else does.... if you do have 2 males and 4 females thats a nice group you have and im sure it wont be long before they spawn for you

I'd be getting some more imported from germany so you can diversify the gene pool in the UK , sounds like everyone has fish over there from the same lineage - could be a disaster waiting to happen.
J

I'm hoping to get some longfin reds this year .......... well, if things go the way I hope I will

hiya if they all came from the same gene pool how do we manage to get new blood into the uk , or do we try and breed with normal browns and try and improve the blood line,im sure i read some where that it maybe possible. colin.

hiya deano do you know the sexs of te ones from germany yet cheers colin.

5 males 1 female

i do remember reading somewhere that you could improve the red blood line by breeding with a brown and crossing back , but for the life of me i carnt remember where i read it. did you import straight to yourself with the ones from germany deano ,colin.

no mate through a lfs that my son works at

cheers deano for the info will have to see if i can get some imported in sunderland ,colin.

Steve (Bikerman) told me that the Reds where spawned from a pair of Common BN for some reason the fry turned out Red would be good to know if this was actually the case

found this http://www.tiere.de/Fische/Ancistrus-Red-Fire%252C-A.-Violett%252C-A.-Schleier%252C-unbekannt_530226.html

looks like the link doesnt work try searching for red fire lda16 some german sites should come up colin.