can flowerhorn brothers and sisters mate? I have a 6 golden platinum flower horns fries 2" and 6 red dragon flowerhorn fries 2"
Also at what size will they sex
Also at what size will they sex
can brothers and sisters flowerhorns mate?
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Eeww! You sicko! 
lol.
Seriously though. Spawn from siblings are generally genetically weaker and therefore, less healthy.
If you're thinking of linebreeding, it's done by breeding an offspring back to a parent. With siblings, there's a greater probability "repeating chromasomal pairs", since they share the same parents, "flaws" are more likely to show up in a sibling spawn. i.e. there's no "backup" present in case of a "bad gene"- since the siblings likely share the exact same gene pool.
HTH
lol.Seriously though. Spawn from siblings are generally genetically weaker and therefore, less healthy.
If you're thinking of linebreeding, it's done by breeding an offspring back to a parent. With siblings, there's a greater probability "repeating chromasomal pairs", since they share the same parents, "flaws" are more likely to show up in a sibling spawn. i.e. there's no "backup" present in case of a "bad gene"- since the siblings likely share the exact same gene pool.
HTH
Yes it is possible for a brother and sister to spawn
if it is a good idea or not is a long story
If interested in researching it I suggest starting with searching for definitions and FISH RELATED examples of both inbreeding (generally accepted as brother to sister or father to daughter or mother to son) and line breeding (a lighter form of inbreeding generally accepted as cousins or further related partners).
Ill spare you my opinions on this matter as Ive spent too much time researching it over the last few years but as a conclusion I do not breed brother/sister or parent/offspring pairs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linebreeding
Although I understand this is commonly done (too often IMO)... breeding parent to child is inbreeding, not linebreeding... Most scientific sourses agree on this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linebreeding
If interested in researching it I suggest starting with searching for definitions and FISH RELATED examples of both inbreeding (generally accepted as brother to sister or father to daughter or mother to son) and line breeding (a lighter form of inbreeding generally accepted as cousins or further related partners).
Ill spare you my opinions on this matter as Ive spent too much time researching it over the last few years but as a conclusion I do not breed brother/sister or parent/offspring pairs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linebreeding
cdienzo;2227475; said:
Although I understand this is commonly done (too often IMO)... breeding parent to child is inbreeding, not linebreeding... Most scientific sourses agree on this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linebreeding
yea but lets say I have six red dragons and 6 goldens they each share the same father but different mother. Would this make any difference?cdienzo;2227475; said:Eeww! You sicko!
Seriously though. Spawn from siblings are generally genetically weaker and therefore, less healthy.
If you're thinking of linebreeding, it's done by breeding an offspring back to a parent. With siblings, there's a greater probability "repeating chromasomal pairs", since they share the same parents, "flaws" are more likely to show up in a sibling spawn. i.e. there's no "backup" present in case of a "bad gene"- since the siblings likely share the exact same gene pool.
HTH
aznfab213;2227644; said:
Having different mothers would definately make a difference. If you read up on linebreeding/inbreeding there is a scale of how to rate the inbreeding coefficient of your line/pair. I use a modified version of it to keep track of my Blue Dempsey lines.