can you guys help me with my hybrid knowledge and potentially fill in the gaps?

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cailenew

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so I've started compiling a google sheet to identify what these guys look like taken photos from here and there - mainly the big hybrid thread and other hybrid threads (i realise the jag x red terror photos wrong)
i just kind of want to use this as a basis for a dissertation so i need some feedback and assistance as to developing it further. my plan is to expand this and involve up to 4 photos for the phenotype for the hybrid as a pose to the singular ones i have thus far.
I've also added a link to the sheet at the bottom so you guys and gals can see what i have thus far as I'm also using it as a stockist too
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Copy of cichlid hybrid sheet

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I think it's a great little chart, very informative. My only issue with it is you have fish like parrots and flower horns being treated as "Inputs" into the hybrid table when I believe they should be categorized as outputs. Like Texax X Flowerhorn isn't too special, it just yields more flowerhorn. From a hobbyist perspective, the table is pretty good, but you can take it a step further and omit hybrids as inputs and replace them with the sum of their parts. I'd think the only problem with that is a lot of hybrids we have today just show up from fish farms, so it's up to us to guess the parents, so it would leave you with a lot of blank spaces. I hope what I said makes sense
 
The photo you have for Convict x Ivory Parrot is a Shortbody Honduran Redpoint. That is not an hybrid but rather has been selectively bred for body shape. Great chart!
 
thanks - I'll edit it and correct it i figured it was a polar blue parrot - cause it was posted as one but i do recognize the trait upon googling it
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cichlid/comments/hbmfyx
so I'll replace the photo and categorize that one differently (possibly in the hybrid table I'm most likely going to create now).
 
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I'll most likely create a separate table if I'm honest for the hybrids. I agree 100% with the Texas x flowerhorn and flowerhorn X (Y) being flowerhorn so it makes sense to make two tables and have on on a separate sheet. ill be honest i created it more for trying to research fertility as well as the hybrid splendor side of it.

but for my breeding projects I am going to keep a 'family tree' just so if I sell any I can have traceability on traits for the new owners - kind of like how i did when i bred koi bettas, that being this individual is opaque at the present but his mother was a yellow samurai and his father was a candy cane betta with a plakat body.
 
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cailenew said:
thanks - I'll edit it and correct it i figured it was a polar blue parrot - cause it was posted as one but i do recognize the trait upon googling it
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cichlid/comments/hbmfyx
so I'll replace the photo and categorize that one differently (possibly in the hybrid table I'm most likely going to create now).
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The name that’s being marketed, Polar blue parrot or convict can be confusing. It’s actually a short body Honduran Red Point. good luck with your dissertation
 
your Rainbow X FH images are wrong only one person has done rainbow x Flowerhorn
Some fhs are called rainbow but they dont have them in them
 
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