Why are platinum bichir not farmed?
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I think they are farmed and breed in captivity, its just controlled and not massive. Of course the market will not allow it to be massive breeding cause of the price. If they do that then the fish will not be rare anymore, price will drop. Its all about the $$$.
Not only that but they have to grade them and sort them according to quality.
I have heard the opposite from some other people, so I am not sure you are correct.
What have you heard...please share. I’m also curious since I have several platinum bichirs of both sexes.
From what ive heard and seen from other breeders “not bichirs” but other platinum fish. It dont mean that you have both platinum parent you’ll have platinum babies, you’ll only have 3%-10% getting a platinum babies, ive seen it on rays and aro.
I have heard that it is just something that happens with each batch you get so many if your lucky....
I don't think that the parents being platinum effects the amount of platinum in fry. I hope somebody can tell us for sure.
Maybe you heard that if you breed a platinum and regular brown bichir, then all of their babies will all look normal brown, but they will have the hidden recessive platinum gene in them. So if you breed those normal looking but hidden platinum gene babies back to the platinum parent, then half the babies will look normal and half will be platinum. Then if you breed those platinum babies to each other or to the original platinum parent, then 100% of the babies will be platinum. The platinum gene in fish is definitely classed as recessive, and that's what animal breeders do to get a recessive gene trait that they want to keep and breed, if they are starting with only one specimen of an animal with the recessive gene they want.