Black Angelfish

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Black Angelfish A Versatile Addition to a
Breeding Program

• A presentation for The Angelfish Society February
  17, 2008.
• By Tamar Stephens

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Black Angelfish can be used to make several
popular phenotypes.

• In this presentation we will look at some
  attractive and popular varieties that can be made
  using black angelfish.
• If you dont already have black angelfish in your
  breeding program, this presentation may give you
  some ideas to expand the number of varieties you
  raise through simply adding black angelfish to
  your home hatchery.

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Simple Crosses

• The first crosses we will look at involve simply
  crossing a double dark black (D/D) with another
  variety.

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Black x Silver ? Black Lace

• Many people consider black lace to be one of the
  more striking varieties of angelfish.
• Double dark black (D/D) crossed with silver
  (/) results in a black lace (D/). We show this
  cross as
• D/D x / ? D/

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Black x Zebra (Z/Z) ? Zebra Lace

• Many people consider zebra lace to be even more
  attractive than black lace. They are similar in
  appearance. Zebra lace has one more stripe, and
  has more ornate patterning in the tail and fins.
• Double dark black (D/D) crossed with zebra (Z/Z)
  ? zebra lace (D/ - Z/).

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Zebra can be double or single dose

• Zebra is a dominant trait, so a zebra might be
  either Z/Z or Z/.
• Homozygous (double dose) zebras (Z/Z) are often
  slower to grow than single dose (Z/).
• Chances are that if you have zebra angels, they
  might be single dose (Z/).
• What happens if you cross a single dose zebra to
  a double dark black? (next slide)

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Black x Zebra (Z/)

• If you cross double dark black with a single
  dose zebra, you will get 50 zebra lace and 50
  black lace, both of which are beautiful and
  striking angelfish varieties.
• D/D x Z/ ?
• 50 D/ - Z/ (zebra lace)
• 50 D/ (black lace)

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Black x Smokey ? Smokey Lace

• Here is another beautiful variety you can create
  by crossing black with smokey.
• D/D x Sm/ ?
• 50 D/ - Sm/ (smokey lace)
• 50 D/ (black lace)

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Black x Blushing ? Black Ghost

• A black ghost will is a pretty variation of
  black. The color is lighter and stripes are
  absent or incomplete.
• The cross is
• D/D x S/S ?
• 100 D/ - S/ (black ghost)

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More complicated phenotypes

• We just looking at some phenotype that can be
  created by simply crossing a double dark black
  with another phenotype.
• Now lets look at some phenotypes that might
  require 2 steps to create.

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Turquoise Blushing (D/ - S/S)
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Turquoise Blushing (D/ - S/S) (continued)

• Turquoise Blushing can be made with more than
  one possible cross. Here is one way.
• We saw how to create black ghost on a previous
  slide. We can cross black ghost (D/ - S/) with
  blushing (S/S).
• D/ - S/ x S/S ?
• / - S/ 25 Silver Ghost
• / - S/S 25 Blushing
• D/ - S/ 25 Black Ghost
• D/ - S/S 25 Turquoise Blushing

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Black Velvet (Black Blushing)

• Black Velvet is a black blushing angelfish.
• It has a smooth velvety appearance, with no
  stripes and no lace patterning in the tail or
  fins.

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Black Velvet (continued)

• If you cross two black ghosts, you will get 6.25
  black blushing.
• D/ - S/ x D/ S/ ?
• / - / 6.25 Silver (wild)
• / - S/ 12.50 Silver Ghost
• / - S/S 6.25 Blushing
• D/ - / 12.50 Black Lace
• D/ - S/ 25.00 Black Ghost
• D/ - S/S 12.50 Turquoise Blushing
• D/D - / 6.25 Black(dd)
• D/D - S/ 12.50 Black(dd) Ghost
• D/D - S/S 6.25 Black(dd) Blushing (velvet)
• Now you can cross two of the black velvet
  offspring to 100 black velvet in the next
  generation.
• (Did you notice that you can create black lace,
  turquoise blushing, glack ghost, and black velvet
  all in the same spawn with this cross?)

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These are a few attractive varieties that are
possible with the black allele.

• If you are a novice at breeding angelfish, you
  might want to consider trying your hand at
  raising some of these varieties.
• You can explore the phenotype library and play
  with the genetics calculator for more possible
  varieties.
• What black varieties have you raised?

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Thank You!

• All of the photos used in this presentation came
  from the TAS phenotype library.
• Thank you to all of you who have contributed to
  the phenotype library either through
  participating in photo contests or by directly
  donating photos!!!

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The End

• Now back to the chat room for discussion!