Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => Old World => Topic started by: danielratti on June 03, 2012, 08:58:10 AM
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Ok so with all these new man made fish its made me confused with something. Aren't all of these fish the same? I mean they look different kinda I got one from my work that's a deep orange with blue fins I'm not a big fan of the color pink so that's why I took him when I noticed him.
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Ok so with all these new man made fish its made me confused with something. Aren't all of these fish the same? I mean they look different kinda I got one from my work that's a deep orange with blue fins I'm not a big fan of the color pink so that's why I took him when I noticed him.
From what I have seen it all depends on what someone wants to call them. I've seen people call the more redish ones Dragon Blood and the more Orange ones Fire fish...and the other way around too. Basically whoever breeds them makes up a name to make them sell better is what I figure..."This one is really red with deep blues, Ill call it a Superman Red Dragon Blood"....Makes it hard to tell what the heck you are getting. None the less they are beautiful fish in my opinion.
What it comes down to is that they are all hybrids or some form of tank raised strain. Some Peacock mixed with something....what that something is I dont know...I looked it up a while ago and it seemed that there is no for sure answer.
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They are all man-made peacocks. People put their own slight twists on them and give them a special name. Along the way other people probably screw up the naming at some point, which then breeds future confusion as to what is really what.
If you've got a particular color preference, you'd probably want to buy a young adult/adult fish of the color you desire.
A second option would be buying young fish provided you've seen the parent(s), but then you're trusting the previous line-breeding to be reliable/stable at throwing mainly the traits of the parents (which IMO is also a gamble because not many people seem to breed enough generations to establish this).
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I've read elsewhere its about 3 generations of linebreeding to get established traits you want. Does anybody know if this is correct? I'm trying to start up some linebreeding on these fish soon
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I've read elsewhere its about 3 generations of linebreeding to get established traits you want. Does anybody know if this is correct? I'm trying to start up some linebreeding on these fish soon
My impression has been that you shouldn't breed more than 3-4 generations back to each other.
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Yeah you don't want to make hillbilly fish. Or could be a new marketable species.