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Badflash
05-29-2008, 9:12 PM
I recently got a couple of breeding colonies to produce nice red hybrid tilapia. Very cool system that produces all male fish.
Papa is O. hornorum.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/badflash/tilapia/hornorum.jpg
Moms are O. mossambicas.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/badflash/tilapia/mozambicus.jpg
SkidMark
06-02-2008, 4:41 PM
what are you going to do with them?
I recently got a couple of breeding colonies to produce nice red hybrid tilapia. Very cool system that produces all male fish.
Papa is O. hornorum.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/badflash/tilapia/hornorum.jpg
Moms are O. mossambicas.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/badflash/tilapia/mozambicus.jpg
I always thought talipia were just food fish but must say very pretty fish you have worth keeping just for the looks
Fatmantechno
06-14-2008, 1:46 AM
I was wondering. Have you tried breeding those male hybrids with any oreochromis feamales and what was the outcome. I have male red hybrids and a female nile tilapia and female oreochromis's think I'll get red from them?
Badflash
06-28-2008, 1:27 PM
These are intended for food, but I think they have potential as an aquarium fish too. The purpose of the two species is to produce all male hybrids. The hornorum us a ZZ-ZW sex combo where the males are ZZ. The mossambicas are XY-XX like people where XX is female. Cross a ZZ with a XX and all the offstring are ZX. about 95% are male and quite red.
Your red hybrids were produced from such a cross then crossed into the niles to produce the Florida reds. It is anyones guess what crossing them back to pure hororums would give you.