Othello Dragon Eye Pearlscales 『オテロ』 出目パール!

不管黑猫白猫，能抓耗子就是好猫。

~邓小平

Black cat, white cat - the one that catches mice is a good cat.

~ Deng Xiaoping

Othello 黑白配

Last weekend, I was elated to discover a few jet black Dragon Eye Pearlscales amongst the batch of majority grayish-green fries. Finally, after 4 years, I got the black colour that I wished for in my Dragon Eye Pearlscales! Black fishes process a mystic charisma that never fails to captivate me.

This particular sub-line of black Dragon Eye Pearlscales is derived from a stable bloodline of Chinese Short Tail Dragon Eyes, a strain that has very stable black and capable of achieving a good size. I hope that there are both sexes in the few precious specimens and their black colour would not fade to orange eventually. If I am lucky, I should have more black fishes in the next breeding season.

Pearl-fection ~ my favourite Crown
Pearlscale bred in 2003
03 年繁殖的黑皇冠珍珠

Breeding livestock is like juggling - if we become too focus on one feature, we may risk losing another feature. Luck also plays a part because there is always a limited number of combination that the breeder can attempt.