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#Post#: 1594-------------------------------------------------- |
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Hybrids ... |
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By: Jennifer Date: October 23, 2014, 7:33 pm |
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Here's a hairy tank talk topic for you, John. I thought of it |
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when I ran across this article on the internet. |
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http://www.biotopeone.com/plight-of-the-purist-amid-designer-species/ |
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Just FYI, I dabble with domestics (read hybrids) and location |
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wild populations with the live bearers. I actually went to live |
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bearers because unlike cichlids, there wasn't the big stigma |
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with hybrids. There are some purists as far as people who like |
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to only keep the location wild species and they don't apply any |
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selective breeding to their lines, but I find cichlid purists to |
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be much more harsh. |
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If you ask me, the second we start putting the fish into our |
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glass boxes with their limited genetic pools and no means for |
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true natural selection (there are no predators in my mollie |
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tanks, we alter the population in a way that wouldn't happen in |
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the wild anyway, so I don't see the huge fuss over hybrids. I |
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do keep a few species that way when I can but more because I |
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like to watch and see what sort of natural variants pop up in an |
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unguided wild population than any feelings of obligation towards |
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preserving the natural state of the species. |
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If I recall, you like hybrids as well as the "wild" species too. |
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But anyway, I thought it could be a very interesting topic. |
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Re: Hybrids ... |
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By: GaryJewett Date: October 24, 2014, 9:17 am |
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I agree with you. As far as hybrids go if I buy a fish and the |
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seller says these are from this male and that female, I'm fine. |
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They can be very nice looking fish. I also feel we need to stop |
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buying wild caught. Marc, of the African Cichlid Hub posted a |
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video of releasing fish to help replace depleted natural stock. |
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When you can get beautiful fish from a reputable breeder or farm |
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why not let the wild populations build back up. I think some |
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people want bragging rights to say I got this F0 zebra |
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whatever, when a tank raised one is just as nice and is used to |
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a tank environment. I hope I don't offend anybody, just my |
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opinion |
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Re: Hybrids ... |
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By: kgtropicals Date: October 26, 2014, 3:00 pm |
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This topic is already in the works folks:-) It should be the |
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topic of next weeks video:-) |
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