I'm courious. If I wanted to start a colony of Fronts, should i buy from 2 different sellers so they don't inbreed? Or should i just buy from 1 so I know i'm not crossbreeding? What is the greater risk of bad offsprings?
Buy Fronts from different sellers?
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If you're buying fry or juvies, you'd be better off buying fish from 2 reliable sources since then there will not be any inbreeding. Or just get the male from a different source. The only ideal situation that you'd buy from one reliable source is if you bought wild frontosa.
This is of course if you're really looking to breed them. If just for pure enjoyment and you just want a tank full of beautiful fish, just make sure you start with beautiful stock. You don't want to be raising fronts for a few years only to see that their broken bars or mooning never disappeared. (Mpimbwe fronts will sometimes have slight mooning though which is only acceptable in this variety of frontosa.) If they don't have those bad traits to start with, they won't have them when they get older. So the greater risk of bad offspring is breeding poor quality fish to begin with.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck with your fronts!
This is of course if you're really looking to breed them. If just for pure enjoyment and you just want a tank full of beautiful fish, just make sure you start with beautiful stock. You don't want to be raising fronts for a few years only to see that their broken bars or mooning never disappeared. (Mpimbwe fronts will sometimes have slight mooning though which is only acceptable in this variety of frontosa.) If they don't have those bad traits to start with, they won't have them when they get older. So the greater risk of bad offspring is breeding poor quality fish to begin with.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck with your fronts!
If you only have on tank for them I actually suggest buying from one seller first. If you buy fry you always want to buy a bunch and grow them out then weedout what you want pick two stunning males and a large group of females and trade/sell the rest. Then you take your larger show males and trade them for equal or better quality with someone else.
If you can grow them out in two very large tanks (there gonna be a good size and in large number probably before you start doing this, or at least thats the case for me) then buy from two seprate breeders and do as stated above and you can actually mix the males to the females and from one group and the same with the other so the males from each group are with the females from opposite groups. If you only have one tank and the fish from both breeders and mix them you'll end up not being able to tell them apart and end up inbreeding anyways.
If you can grow them out in two very large tanks (there gonna be a good size and in large number probably before you start doing this, or at least thats the case for me) then buy from two seprate breeders and do as stated above and you can actually mix the males to the females and from one group and the same with the other so the males from each group are with the females from opposite groups. If you only have one tank and the fish from both breeders and mix them you'll end up not being able to tell them apart and end up inbreeding anyways.