as the title says, let me introduce this projec.
Im from NZ, no onehere as i know is selectively breeding FHs.
probably cos market is small.
I am doing this project cos i love FHs - doing it for money is deluded lol im doing it for love baby!
anyways.
I have some questions.
i know that when you breed FHs, eventualy to add colour and traits, cross breeding will need to occur.
What i have avail here are the following.
Parrots
texas cichlids
red devils
to work with. these are relatively common.
i have jaguar cichlids also but i doubt they can be crossed with the FHs.
I have purchased recently (actually 3 days ago) a adult pair of flowerhorns. these are known to breed - currently they are settling, took their first meal today small one, and doing a circular dance and then the female slowly swiims away to her hide hole.
the male approaches her and she comes out, they do the dance and shake and she leaves. nver seen that before.
these arer basic flowerhorns, compared to some of the awesome ones on here. these are all we get! we dont know 100% but we are pretty sure that these two are from the same parents. and are true offspring from two hybrid parents making them FH.
anyways, my questions are this:
Genetics and selective breeding questions.
1: when these two breed. i will grow out the fastest and nicest specimens out of that batch of fry.
Do i breed the two offspring together, to narrow down the traits? And keep doing that with the next batch and so on. OR do i get the best female form that batch - then cross it with the papa FH, one in the pic. ?
2: when you breed fish like this - does the genetics o thw two parents randomly splice and pass on to the offspring? or does one parents generally pass on more trait than the other?
example;
does male give more prediction on the traits or female of the babies?
3: another project to coincide with mine is breeding red devils and texas chiclids together to get a red texas
http://images.suite101.com/536678_com_red_texas.jpg
then we can maybe cross some of those offspring with my flowerhonr babies that are selected with the right dots on the side and colours and then get a purer and refined gene pool.
when breeding the texas and red devil - should we have a male or female red devil and male or female texas?
or does it not matter?
i know males are usually more vibrant and colourful - but females of the same batch of fry, do they contain the same genes roughly but it does not show as much? so in essence, crossing them wit another fish, nd getting males would mean those males benefit from the females genes despite the fact it is not showing too much on that parents female.
i would really appreciate some feedback from experienced breeders.
Im from NZ, no onehere as i know is selectively breeding FHs.
probably cos market is small.
I am doing this project cos i love FHs - doing it for money is deluded lol im doing it for love baby!
anyways.
I have some questions.
i know that when you breed FHs, eventualy to add colour and traits, cross breeding will need to occur.
What i have avail here are the following.
Parrots
texas cichlids
red devils
to work with. these are relatively common.
i have jaguar cichlids also but i doubt they can be crossed with the FHs.
I have purchased recently (actually 3 days ago) a adult pair of flowerhorns. these are known to breed - currently they are settling, took their first meal today small one, and doing a circular dance and then the female slowly swiims away to her hide hole.
the male approaches her and she comes out, they do the dance and shake and she leaves. nver seen that before.
these arer basic flowerhorns, compared to some of the awesome ones on here. these are all we get! we dont know 100% but we are pretty sure that these two are from the same parents. and are true offspring from two hybrid parents making them FH.
anyways, my questions are this:
Genetics and selective breeding questions.
1: when these two breed. i will grow out the fastest and nicest specimens out of that batch of fry.
Do i breed the two offspring together, to narrow down the traits? And keep doing that with the next batch and so on. OR do i get the best female form that batch - then cross it with the papa FH, one in the pic. ?
2: when you breed fish like this - does the genetics o thw two parents randomly splice and pass on to the offspring? or does one parents generally pass on more trait than the other?
example;
does male give more prediction on the traits or female of the babies?
3: another project to coincide with mine is breeding red devils and texas chiclids together to get a red texas
http://images.suite101.com/536678_com_red_texas.jpg
then we can maybe cross some of those offspring with my flowerhonr babies that are selected with the right dots on the side and colours and then get a purer and refined gene pool.
when breeding the texas and red devil - should we have a male or female red devil and male or female texas?
or does it not matter?
i know males are usually more vibrant and colourful - but females of the same batch of fry, do they contain the same genes roughly but it does not show as much? so in essence, crossing them wit another fish, nd getting males would mean those males benefit from the females genes despite the fact it is not showing too much on that parents female.
i would really appreciate some feedback from experienced breeders.
