Anyone heard/seen hybrid?

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I know that the asian ones have been hybridized...what about the south american ones?
 
spring007;2617537; said:
I know that the asian ones have been hybridized...what about the south american ones?
No, but i dont see a point in trying, silver+black=grey maybe? Whats the point lol? I mean no special color or special scale patter or body shape would come out so whats the point?
 
doesnt G1.5 red have yellow tail? and G2 red have redish tail? O_O
 
sodenoshirayuki;2617592; said:
No, but i dont see a point in trying, silver+black=grey maybe? Whats the point lol? I mean no special color or special scale patter or body shape would come out so whats the point?

Silver has a nice pink/green color to it...the black one has blue/gray/black to it...what IF by some luck we get an arowana that has all these colors??
 
spring007;2618193; said:
Silver has a nice pink/green color to it...the black one has blue/gray/black to it...what IF by some luck we get an arowana that has all these colors??
well they still have the ugly body shape so to me itd still look like crap XD. Might be interesting to cross an asian with one though.
 
sodenoshirayuki;2619029; said:
well they still have the ugly body shape so to me itd still look like crap XD. Might be interesting to cross an asian with one though.

hehe would that happen? asian and south american?
 
spring007;2619355; said:
hehe would that happen? asian and south american?
Nope, itd take too long and its not worth it even if it suceeded.
 
All strains of Asain aros are considered as a single species, but fishbase considerd them as different species. If they are different species only green aros would be the only illegal asian arowana to own without CITES approval. Even farm still considered them as a singles species.

If asian and south american would breed or australain perhaps, not sure whta they would look like, as no one have done it yet. My guest maybe for asain red aro x black aro would have a blue fins and a red body and slighty elongated with broader tail and fins.
 
Bderick67;2617455; said:
So there are more then one species of Scleropages formosus? Or different strains which would not be considered hybrid if crossed.

There is debate as to weather there are one species or four species of "asian arowana", check the wiki page for more info. So I guess it depends which side of the fence you sit on as to weather crossing a red with a green is actually hybridising two different species, or just inter-breeding different colour varients of the same species. Someone should try crossing a red with a jardini, because the offspring of such a cross would not be true S. formosus and wouldn't be covered by the laws restricting the importation of aros into the US!
 
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