Any interesting African hybrids?

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viejafish said:
Majority of the designer fish were created in Asia. One reason you don't see many African hybrids in the trade is that Asian aren't interested in creating them, perhaps because Africans lack the morphological and behavioral traits that can be improved upon. For example, Africans don't interact with pet owner as much as CAs and there are no African glass bangers. Africans lack the massive size and hump except for Frontosa but there is no opportunity to hybridize Frontosa with something else. The only hybrids came out of Asia are the OB and Dragon Blood peacocks that add red to the predominantly blue Malawian fish.
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A Boulengerochromis microlepis will bang your glass. The emperor cichlid is the world''s largest cichlid and comes from the big lake in Africa.
 
gutted said:
Any interesting African hybrids?
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How do you define interesting? Unique color, unique body shape, unique behavior?

Is the point of this thread to bash African Hybrids or Africans in general as compared to CA/SA?

I started on CA/SA, was drawn away by Africans for a peroid of time and am now switching back moreso to CA/SA. Within each group, you can find some similar fish, but you can generalize about each as a whole. Some of the Africans fit better with CA/SA's than they do with each other, like Butti's.

Just trying to understand where the OP is trying to go with this?
 
Boulengerochromis microlepis is a Tang, not hap, and is an egg layer. Only egg layers bang glass, an instinct to guard the nest and fry, never mouthbrooders. Once mating is done, mouthbrooders go separate ways. Frontosa don't bang glass, but tiny compressisep will. I am not talking about tangs, which originated from multiple bloodlines and exhibit diverse body shape, breeding habit and behavior, but not much color variation though. Haps lack diversity in shape and color, including many accidental hybrids. Only a few species out of a thousand exhibit unusual body shape, such as the Malawian trout, compressisep and Moori, and that's all.
 
interest is relative btw,only in someones opinion is something interesting or not.I would think anyone who appreciates hybrids would think ANY hybrids are interesting
 
What makes fish keeping interesting and unique from other pets is variety. No one in his life can own all variety of fish in the trade. When one group of fish has been kept too long, it becomes less interesting. Even ugly fish that are new generate more interest than pretty fish that are common.
 
My eureka red X ob peacock fry show the best of both parents. The
Two best males out of the batch of fry have blotches, lines, and broken lines and are starting to turn red on half of their body. They bring out some uniqueness to me. everyone's opinion is different. Lets just post some pics of our african hybrids whoever has pics and stop debating whether CA/SA cichlids look better than africans or not. Can we just stay on topic:confused:
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ecoli73 said:
Problem with African hybrids are that they tend to diminish rather than enhance the uniqueness of the different fish.


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so you're sayin the hybrids make the original fish look not as good.I agree,check these out-I'm goin' tribal on ya!

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