have people bred fish specifically to enhance their qualities as food or are feeders just unmonitered populations? I imagine it's the latter, but I was wondering if it would even be worthwile to develop an offshoot of disease resistant, fast breeding, jumbo guppies or something of the sort. I imagine the time to develop and number needed would nullify the value, but it's food for thought.
Breeds of breeders
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nope.
in fact i think its the other way around.
if a store is going to sell a fish as a feeder they will try to sell the cheapest they can get.
or if you breed fish, say for shows, you would have a large number of culls that would need a purpose. so why not food.
in fact i think its the other way around.
if a store is going to sell a fish as a feeder they will try to sell the cheapest they can get.
or if you breed fish, say for shows, you would have a large number of culls that would need a purpose. so why not food.
Seems like it would make sense to introduce bits of better stock now and again to the larger breeder pool to lower mortality rates.
My parents have a small pond that's been going for almost a decade with platy's (we have mild winters) and over the years the population (150-200 or so) has suffered quite noticably from in-breeding, lots of deformites, bent spines ect. Two years ago I ended up doing a rough kull of the worst effected ones and introduced some new females to increase the genetic diversity, it seems to have improved them a lot, though there's still the odd bent fish swimming around...