Anyone Seen An Amazon Arowana Hybrid? A Silver and a Black?

[toffee]

I create this thread about hybrid Aros http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56351 sometime ago because I think a jardini asian hybrid would be the only way we can enjoy something similiar to an asian aro in this country.

Come to think of it, if that can be done. Asian fish farms, the home of hybrids and land of quick bucks would have done it. If the Asian aro farms haven't done it, it's probably very hard to do.

May be the asian aros just didn't find jadinis sexy or vice verse.

 

[angeladay]

Just because they are in the same genus doesn't ensure that species will interbreed as animal classifications are based on developmental features & physiological characteristics, excluding a very important factor such as 'mating behavior/ritual' which is what we are interested in in this discussion (Pheromones may also play a role in sex recognition too).

Aren't blacks and silvers caught within same region? If two distinct species are present in the same habitat, hybridization would definitely be a NO.

 

[T1KARMANN]

anything is possable in asia if it will make someone loads of money

 

[vanimate]

Wait, isn't interbreeding is possible among different species of the same genus? Blacks and Silvers are both species of the genus "Osteoglossum" (spelling could be wrong). Think of cichlids that interbreed, for instance hybrids produced from Amphilosus Trimaculatus & Amphilosus Citrinellum.

Yes "interbreeding" is between different .sp. Thats using the word "breed" as a verb which means to reproduce.

But breed as a noun refers to animals within a species.

 

[MistirE]

hmmmm...... A hybrid would be called a "hei yin long" ? silver/black

 

[AwolAngler]

I see no reason why this would be IMPOSSIBLE... a lot of us have hybrid cats (I have a rtc x tsn) some fish will interbreed naturally some need to be induced and others can be forced... Whether or not the male will take care of the babies as they do to their own is a whole another debated... but I see absolutely no reason why these species couldn't interbreed, they're from the same family. Getting them to might be a bit harder though... But if you could squeeze out some eggs from a silver and extract some some spermies (how ever they might do this) from a black (or other way around...) I'm sure you could get a forced man made cross... I know that they cross blue cats with channel cats by putting a fertile female ready to breed (cloaca is red and swollen) in a small corral with a larger ready to breed male blue cat. These hybrid cats grow faster and utilize nutrients more efficiently.

 

[stotty]

Osteoglossum ferreirai crossed with Osteoglossum bicirrhosum Mmmmmmmmm

well closest relative to the silver is the slightly smaller Black arowana, the people can cross all these cats now like the TSN RTC cross so why not.

 

[dr01d]

actually i juz checked with the breeders here in indonesia and it doest exist...its black in color when it small but grows to similar like silver without the drop eye....thats the only discription i get frm them...

 

[Miguel]

Would not surprise me, since both are Osteoglossums and weve seen more distant related fish breed..but I would think it not a veruy interesting cross. I go with JardiniBoy..More colourfull jardini's or leicardi's would be interesting...

and a snow silver...

 

[MistirE]

Would not surprise me, since both are Osteoglossums and weve seen more distant related fish breed..but I would think it not a veruy interesting cross. I go with JardiniBoy..More colourfull jardini's or leicardi's would be interesting...

and a snow silver...

actually i juz checked with the breeders here in indonesia and it doest exist...its black in color when it small but grows to similar like silver without the drop eye....thats the only discription i get frm them...

True a MORE colorful jar would be great, but I still would not mind a smaller, slightly black , sleeker black/silver with NO droop eye.