Aquarama 2015

I am elated with 5 winnings this Aquarama 2015, all with my self-bred fishes. One of the winners is the magenta mosaic - one that I worked on for a few years from scratch using the short tail magenta and lace lines. The delta tail shape and the mosaic pattern are proving quite challenging to maintain.

Unfortunately, my brown moscow was not timely to enter into the competition due to its small size . I still maintain these browns and hope to field them for future competitions.

The 5 winnings out of 8 entries I sent:

1st Prize: Group (10 Males) Tuxedo/Bicolour
1st Prize: Trio Open
1st Prize: Trio Bicolour
2nd Prize: Trio Solid Colour (Moscow)
2nd Prize: Lace/Snakeskin

Here are some videos:


Trio Bicolor 1st Prize

Trio Open 1st Prize

Aquarama 2013 Guppy Competition

Aquarama 2013 Guppy Competition had been very competitive. I was lucky to win 4 out of my 6 entries, all of which are home bred by me. The Open class first prize Chocolate Moscow was my new strain creation that had also won in the Trio (2nd Prize) and Group (1st Prize) in Aquarama 2011. Nothing beats the thrill of seeing the fruits of my labour and winning with my self bred fishes.

I would like to thank various Guppy experts like Mr Yap Teo Tee, Mr Henri, Mr Chris Ng and Mr Lok for sharing and guiding me in the Guppy hobby.

1st Prize - Trio Open Class

2nd Prize - Trio Open Class

3rd Prize - Lace/Snakeskin

2nd Prize - Solid (Non-Moscow)

Wild Red

These are the F1 of the AFR Male x Moscow White Chocolate Female. All are grey eyes, some females are blonde. They look more promising in terms of finnage and size than the other combinations. 

Next plan:

a) Inbreed this subline. 

b) Backcross this sub-line to the AFR.

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.

Chocoholic

I love most kinds of chocolates, each flavour has its allure and I hate it when presented with a box of chocolate with many flavours to choose from. In actual fact, I would love to savour each and every one of them... it is very seldom that a box of chocolate survive a week in my fridge.

I faced the exact same dilemma for my Chocolate Moscows too. Sometimes, I am at a lost of which morph of Chocolates to focus on. There is the lighter brown to chestnut colour, the reddish tinge cherry brown to the maple tone and the very dark Oak tone like dark chocolates. There is also a morph of albino thrown out by the Moscow Chocolate which I candidly dubbed the "Milk Chocolate".

Due to the AFR ancestry, the Milk Chocolate Moscow exhibit tones of red but they are more towards orange in colour. Naturally for most Guppy hobbyists, the first thing that came to our minds is to back cross to the AFR to see if we can achieve the best of both Worlds - The scarlet red of the AFR strain and the big body and broad finnage of the Moscow strain :)