Sunday, May 13, 2012

Chocolate Updates

Got some time today to record the updates of my 3-month-old Chocolates...


Moscow Chocolates






and also an experimental strain of Chocolates x Moscow Blues.

Experimental strain - unstable geno



Sunday, May 6, 2012

Outcrossing to Albino Full Red (AFR)

To experiment on my Milk Chocolate Moscow, I acquired a stable strain of AFR from a local hobbyist last November. This is supposedly a stable Taiwanese strain with good solid red and big dorsal. I have done F1 inbreed with no sign of deterioration. 

Next, I have also crossed the pure AFR strain into my Milk Chocolate strain. As per best practices, the following are the combinations:

A: AFR (Taiwan line)
M: Milk Chocolate

1) A(male) x M (female)
2) M(male) x A (male)

while continuing the pure lines:

3) A (male) x A (female)
4) M (male) x M (female)

1) and 2) is expected to produce greyed-eye progeny as is usual for out-crossing of two unrelated albino strains.