my blue acara and green terror had eggs what will the baby’s look like and will aquarium stores or anyone any to buy them
Blue acara and green terror eggs
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Some will look like GTs some will look like Blue Acaras, some will be a varying combination of the 2.
What ever they look like, they will still be hybrids, and cannot be legitimately ID'd as either.
Whether a LFS buys them or not, will depend on how ethical they are about selling mutts, or if some individual buys them, on how anti, or pro unidentifiable hybrid mutts they are.
What ever they look like, they will still be hybrids, and cannot be legitimately ID'd as either.
Whether a LFS buys them or not, will depend on how ethical they are about selling mutts, or if some individual buys them, on how anti, or pro unidentifiable hybrid mutts they are.
I wI’ll defenetly tell who ever I sell them to that’s they are green terror cross with blue acara and just wondering do you have any pics and will they look nice
Here in, lies the problem.
On this and many other sites, I see "please ID my fish" posts every day, by people wanting to know if they have this, or that Andinoacara by simple photos.
Is this a GT?
Is this a Gold Saum?
is this a Blue Acara?
And the only real way to know, is an expensive DNA analysis.
Add hybrids to the equation, and ID becomes even more impossible.
Aquarists allowing and perpetuating different species to hybridize contributes to the problem, and making it worse, by selling or giving the mutts to LFSs, who in reality, have no clue, and will state any ID that they think will contribute to their bottom line.
The proper thing to do with mutts, would be to destroy them.
I realize this goes against many peoples sensitivity, but in the "long run", this would be the best thing to do, in trying to legitimize species ID.
And not just with Andinoacara, but Vieja, and Parachromis, and on down the line.
Just consider what has happened with many African cichlids as far back as 40 years ago, it has been and is nearly impossible to know what you are buying.
On this and many other sites, I see "please ID my fish" posts every day, by people wanting to know if they have this, or that Andinoacara by simple photos.
Is this a GT?
Is this a Gold Saum?
is this a Blue Acara?
And the only real way to know, is an expensive DNA analysis.
Add hybrids to the equation, and ID becomes even more impossible.
Aquarists allowing and perpetuating different species to hybridize contributes to the problem, and making it worse, by selling or giving the mutts to LFSs, who in reality, have no clue, and will state any ID that they think will contribute to their bottom line.
The proper thing to do with mutts, would be to destroy them.
I realize this goes against many peoples sensitivity, but in the "long run", this would be the best thing to do, in trying to legitimize species ID.
And not just with Andinoacara, but Vieja, and Parachromis, and on down the line.
Just consider what has happened with many African cichlids as far back as 40 years ago, it has been and is nearly impossible to know what you are buying.
Are you talking about regular blue Accra or electric blue Accra crossing with green terror.
My EBA female crossed with my male GT and laid eggs. The female pushed the reluctant male to mate. The eggs were fertile and hatched into free swimming fry. The female guarded the fry fearlessly, but the GT male played no part of it. I have no clue what the fry will grow up to be, but searching the web convinced me that they won’t be spectacular, losing the electric blue of EBA, and likely also losing the orange edge of GT. I don’t object to hybridizing fish to achieve superior color like many live bearers do, but cichlid hybrids are rarely improvement over the original breed in my research. I don’t want them to grow up not able to find takers in auction or lfs, so I net the fry out to feed my other fish.
My EBA female crossed with my male GT and laid eggs. The female pushed the reluctant male to mate. The eggs were fertile and hatched into free swimming fry. The female guarded the fry fearlessly, but the GT male played no part of it. I have no clue what the fry will grow up to be, but searching the web convinced me that they won’t be spectacular, losing the electric blue of EBA, and likely also losing the orange edge of GT. I don’t object to hybridizing fish to achieve superior color like many live bearers do, but cichlid hybrids are rarely improvement over the original breed in my research. I don’t want them to grow up not able to find takers in auction or lfs, so I net the fry out to feed my other fish.
