Breeding Help

[Sean]

I'm not saying that I would be selling them. I said if at all. meaning that I most likely wont be.

[danielratti]

Looks like I'll have lots of weird hybrids. I'll still raise a couple out of curiosity but the rest will be sold as hybrids; if at all

Reread that statement

[Sean]

That's not how I meant it. I meant that if I decided to sell them (which I'm not) they would be labeled as hybrids not as pure breds. After hearing all this, I understand why you guys are against them.

[TrailerParkFishTanks]

So now that someone mentioned the word hybrids and got off on a tangent, what was your question again? Oh yea how do you get the male to start breeding again? It'll take some time for the next female to get ready but i noticed a little more protein in there diet helps speed things up a bit. If you want to raise your hybrids to see what they will look like go for it, don't cull them because someone thinks hybrids are evil. You enjoy your hobby how ever it makes you happy.

[danielratti]

pretty sure he was talking about selling them... only reason it was derailed.

[NsweAandeguk]

I would like to know why all the bigotry against hybreds? Nature creates all kinds of them, and some are most beautiful in fact we are hybreds, It has been geneticaly proven that for the majority we all have some neanderthal blood in our veins, and their genetics give us the immunity we need as a species to survive. Show a little more understanding and allow nature to do what she has done best for millions of years

[lilscoots]

Eventually all these threads turn into an argument over whether hybrids are good or bad and both sides chime in.

To answer the actual question, it'll be the females that will determine when the next breeding will take place as it all depends on when they're ready to spawn.  Some people say that a slightly colder temperature water change can trigger spawning too.  I've found stress, more the removal of stress to be the best precursor to spawning.

[Sean]

Thanks guys. I shouldn't have even mentioned the word hybrid. evertime it's mentioned on here someone has something to say about it

[danielratti]

If your purpose in a hobby is to make a living off of it as a full time job it is a very poor. Creating and selling hybrids shows you literally have no care or passion of the hobby other then to make money let alone being part of keeping the hoby alive and going.

[African cichlid Keeper]

If your purpose in a hobby is to make a living off of it as a full time job it is a very poor. Creating and selling hybrids shows you literally have no care or passion of the hobby other then to make money let alone being part of keeping the hoby alive and going.

^ I agree

[NsweAandeguk]

Yeah. get rid of all us hybreds. Lets do away with nature while we are at it so there will be no more diversity.we can't have any evolution going on here.

[Regalblue]

Yeah. get rid of all us hybreds. Lets do away with nature while we are at it so there will be no more diversity.we can't have any evolution going on here.

nature's evolution & playing God with a fish tank are two different things. Don't get it twisted.

[danielratti]

Yeah dude you're not evolving anything when trying to Frankenstein a fish. Lets leave up to the Chinese to engineer new fish not someone who lacks common sense and throws a bunch of fish in a tank. Not taking a stab at anyone just making a statemnet.. if you cannot figure it out by now hybrids in the hobby are frowned upon if you look into all the problems they are having in the lakes in africa you might be able to do the math and figure out why people want to keep pure species in the hobby.

[NsweAandeguk]

It is the same. it doesn't matter if they are in a lake or in a tank, nature decieds if they will mate and what becomes of them. MAN will deciede to keep the bloodlines pure. I do think some should remain pure but killing hybreds just because they are is stupid and it  is playing god, who knows what beautiful breed might someday come from them. Nature has made EVERY type of life on this planet from hybreds, nothing is like its first ancestor was. When I think of ridgidpurity of the species the first thing that comes to mind is Hitler and the KKK. I know this is fish but they have a right to live and evolve.

[danielratti]

I have something long typed up but forget about it. Good luck playing darwin.