could and aus. aro and asian aro be crossed?? so here is my thought process. if they can be crossed then the hybrid could be imported into the US becasue it is a hybrid species. yes some will have an aus. temperment but i am sure that some will have an asian temperment also. and also the colors of the asians would then be availbaly in the US. yes i do realise that this would take time but i also think if it was possible then it would be a cool idea.
austrailian x asian??
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Why would anyone bother even trying to do the hybrid and sell for half the price of a regular asian when asian aros are selling so great right now at full price? The market goes in the direction where the most money can be made, not in the direction that satisfies the majority of people.
More money would be made with the hybrid because it would be legal to sell.
And I have never heard of such a hybrid so I highly doubt it's possible.
You'd have to sell more than two hybrids to even meet the price of selling one pure asian unless guys in US like to pay the same as pure ones. They're not going to try and mass produce hybrids just so the market of one country can be satisfied lol, I doubt they would make enough back from it. Why try something new if what they're doing now is working and still growing. And yes, those are two difference species so i wouldn't expect them to be able to create hybrids.
Those greedy aro breeders in Asia wants to maintain the endanger status to keep the price up. If they truly wanted to do the right thing, they would release part of the captive breed fishes back into the wild and make a difference for the status. That's how they do it here for the white sturgeon. Someone should hybrid the aro and make them available world wide and destroy the market of the Asian Arowana. As long as the hybrid have a larger percentage Asian but with a noticeable difference, that is all is needed. If they can do the glow in the Danios, they can do it for the aro.
hybridization does not depend on species otherwise how is a flower horn made or any other hybrid for that matter?????? it depends on genus... but i don't think that that is an absolute, but if u go back any further i don't think it will work at all.
i am sure someone has tryed it before i mean it really would not coast much money if you could do selective breeding with them. now if gene mapping had to be done and all sorts of other things then no it makes no sense. but if one breeder started hybridize then they could start to offer the hybrids to other countries and if the hybrids were fertile then all sorts of breeding projects would erupt in the USA at least. sure call me selfish for wanting something like this but i don't really care i think it would be awesome
You're not even comprehending the situation correctly lol. Farms are not going to throw thousands of dollars into wild waters just to attempt to restore wildstock. That kind of thing is for the government to do, which they don't seem to have any intention of doing anyways. The fact is your government has not acknowledged that all asian aros in the market now are captive bred and has no correlation with the wild population. Thats your own government's issue. Greedy asian breeders? Give me a break, EVERYTHING runs on money. Unless you donate 95% of your paycheck to charity and live off the lowest possible amount, you yourself are greedy too...