bad bar demasoni question

[LilBabyEmma]

Hi. I got a group of 16 demasoni in my 55g tank and some have bad baring. I was windering will the bad bard dems make bad babys?

 

[mike dunagan]

often they will make bad babies...

 

[emptyhead]

They can, but you can get a wide variance even from good stock.

Are you planning on breeding and selling?

Don't thin out your group of 16.

 

[dookie]

bad bars are from inbreeding. try getting some new blood lines in there.

 

[LilBabyEmma]

my dems started breeding today. I havnt had them long there diff blood lines there f1s and others

 

[mike dunagan]

I would worry about F1 stock with bad lines...Where are you getting them?

 

[LilBabyEmma]

my local breeder trades and buys for tanks and fish all the time and i bought n traded for them from him. I think the f1 male is going to be the daddy of the holding females fry

 

[mike dunagan]

Where does he get his Wild caught stock from? I am wondering because they should not have bad bars if they are of good breeding stock.

 

[KevinB]

bad bars are from inbreeding. try getting some new blood lines in there.

That's not correct. Wild caught demasoni often have intersecting bars. A lot of breeders are selectively breeding the perfect bar demasoni. I learned this from a talk by Laif Demason at the Ohio Cichlid Extravaganza a few years ago.

Kevin

 

[BioG]

it is a genetic trait but not all their fry will show bad barring. However, if you want to stop the trait then only breed ones that don't have it