My question is how does the MCA define a hybrid? I mean, if I had a Troph tank, and I only had Trophs in it, but each one was from a different collection point, They are all still the same species, so no hybridization would occur, since a hybrid is created by breeding one species with another to create a new man made species... A troph is a troph regardless of what part of the lake it came from.
-Popcorn-
Intentionally breeding of different collection points is incredibly frowned on. A troph isn't just a troph in fact many of them wont even inter breed at all.
There are 6 types of tropheus so far and they are still finding new ways to identify them and placing them in different groups. The 6 groups will not interbreed and even in the groups it seems to be a challenge to get them to interbreed for some species. Im sure if you tried you could get the three types of Duboisi to interbreed although I doubt you could sell a single one unless you lied about it.
Annectens
Duboisi
Brichardi
Sp. Black
Moori
Sp. Red
"since a hybrid is created by breeding one species with another to create a new man made species"
Hybrids occur in the wild so there not just man made, also I guess breeding of collection points wouldn't be considered hybridization, just irresponsible. No one does this on purpose at least not anyways that cares about the hobby in the slightest.
