Hi Ari,

I agreed that if you start with a good quality fish (as breeder), you do tend to get good quality fries.
Are those the blackbelts you bought from Joe? If they are, they pretty good looking...second only to the batch Joe brought in years ago from Jeff Rapps.
As for the green algae, try it.....especially if the CA colors faded. It works for me at least.
Breeding female turning black.....based on my experience so far(which is not alot), almost all turn white and black except Bocourti and Melarunus. But then maybe I am wrong. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that even after breeding, I don't find the breeders to have their color fade. in fact, I find their colors brighten up. Well, at least, my breeding pairs do.
Breeding CA is easy?! How about you passing me some hints and pointers, please...hints and pointers to breeding Argentea, Regani and Bocourti? Not having much luck with these chaps. Well I guess breeding CA is easy, once a pair is found.
Joe brought in some Pearsi a few months ago. I think about the same time as the Blackbelts. Not sure if his farm had started producing Pearsi.

BTW, which CA have you bred?
Cheers