Yup that's how I get information from these two men on NANFA about warmouth hybrids being sterile and also do projects on hybridizing with different species.
Breeding/Hybridizing Sunfish
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Yup that's how I get information from these two men on NANFA about warmouth hybrids being sterile and also do projects on hybridizing with different species.
Been on their site, its definitely a wealth of information, but I have never checked out the forums.
+1 on the info about the warmouth stuff...thanks for that.
Also - anyone have any other cool colorful species they can recommend and add to my list?
Captive bred is easier - as long as I can get paper work for it then I can get it into my lab. So if you are breeding let me have some of your stock!
Need me to run out to my pond tomorrow and scoop out a few dozen small sunfish? It's pretty thawed out at this point, but it's going to freeze over again after tomorrow.
I'm pretty sure that they're just plain bluegills although I have yet to catch an adult; preliminary IDs of the babies indicate that they're bluegills, though.
Very pronounced verticle bars on bluegills are one of the easiest traits to observe on the fry.
As far as local sunfish go, I can easily get: L. gibbosus, L. macrochirus, L. cyanellus, and possibly even L. gulosus - but obviously not really interested in that fish at this point.
As far as local sunfish go, I can easily get: L. gibbosus, L. macrochirus, L. cyanellus, and possibly even L. gulosus - but obviously not really interested in that fish at this point.
Found more info concerning hybrid sunfish involving redear, greens, bluegill. Its been found that most, if not all, are fertile. a male green sunfish X female redear has a 50:50 sex ratio. Phenotypically the hybrids are, for sunnie species 1, intermediate between the two , and sunnie species 2 traits, the ratio is 1:2:1. in all the other combos of green sunfish, red ear sunfish, and bluegill, there was 70% males.
A male bluegill X female green sunfish, shows stronger fish than, male Green X female BG.
I have more info to post if anyones interested.
I researched it because I am considering farming it in an Aquaponics system. Lol
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A male bluegill X female green sunfish, shows stronger fish than, male Green X female BG.
I have more info to post if anyones interested.
I researched it because I am considering farming it in an Aquaponics system. Lol
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Is it possible to cross NA species with SA species? Could one make a Sunfish/Apistogramma mix?
Is it possible to cross NA species with SA species? Could one make a Sunfish/Apistogramma mix?
