Your thoughts on breeding BATMAN rays?

BATMAN rays breeding?

  • Yes, lets learn more and see what happens!

    Votes: 85 57.0%
  • No, we dont need this in the ray industry!

    Votes: 48 32.2%
  • Depends on the offspring created....

    Votes: 16 10.7%

  • Total voters
    149

Gr8KarmaSF

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This has never been done before so lets say a ray keeper had BOTH an adult male and female batman ray. What would be your thoughts on them breeding?

Would it depend on the offspring? What if the offspring were normal rays? What if they were all batmans? Would it be ok just once to see the outcome? Perhaps you dont care?

What say you? ;)
 

Kwazy

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I hit yes.

I do however, thing it is extremely important to maintain the best gene pool possible.
If the "batman" rays are defected, that doesn't help.
 

cjfrontlovr

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no for me..
 

Gr8KarmaSF

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Kwazy;3424655; said:
I hit yes.

I do however, thing it is extremely important to maintain the best gene pool possible.
If the "batman" rays are defected, that doesn't help.

Not sure what you mean? Care to clarify? :confused:

What makes a batman ray "defective"?
 

Kwazy

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Well,
I'm not sure if its a defect or just a strange feature or something.
If its a defect (like twintail bettas and arowanas with drop eye) that can harm the species/ weaken the gene pool I'd say no because its important to me to keep the genes of all fish strong.

I don't know enough about the batman thing, and I'm most likely wrong about it being bad. I hope I'm wrong and the batman thing is just "normal"
 

dingoofus

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It could be natures way of evolving a species?
 

Tom500

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I think it would be a great thing to do, it has crossed my mind before to try and find a pair and have a go. I wanted to click Yes and Depends on the offspring because i think it should be done to see what the outcome is and learn more but if the result is a deformed animal that can have no quality of life then its not fair to keep doing it.

I deffinitely think someone should have a go, id love one in my tank!
 

vamptrev

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i wonder why we have never heard about people trying to breed their bats :confused:

i havent seen very many adult bats either :confused:

i say do it to see what happens.
 
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