cross breeding secerum?

[FrankTheTank110183]

Hi all.
I have a tank with a mix of red shoulder severum and green severum. What would happen if the cross breed like a male red shoulder with a female green. What would the off spring look like? Some if each or a mix of the 2? I searched the net for the answer and came up empty. I am more curious then anything but also wondering if I should separate pairs if it happens

 

[tlindsey]

Hi all.
I have a tank with a mix of red shoulder severum and green severum. What would happen if the cross breed like a male red shoulder with a female green. What would the off spring look like? Some if each or a mix of the 2? I searched the net for the answer and came up empty. I am more curious then anything but also wondering if I should separate pairs if it happens

ryansmith83

 

[ryansmith83]

Please reconsider hybridizing them. Store-bought Heros are already a mess, genetically.

How the fry turn out depends a lot on the genetics of the parents. As I mentioned above, store-bought Heros that have been farm bred are a mix of lots of variants of Heros, some described, some not. It’s likely that if you cross efasciatus with rotkeil you’ll end up with a lot of fry that look like efasciatus. But because there are lots of rotkeil hybrids floating around, if the efasciatus parent contains rotkeil genes and you breed it to a rotkeil you will get some percentage that turn red.

 

[FrankTheTank110183]

Please reconsider hybridizing them. Store-bought Heros are already a mess, genetically.

How the fry turn out depends a lot on the genetics of the parents. As I mentioned above, store-bought Heros that have been farm bred are a mix of lots of variants of Heros, some described, some not. It’s likely that if you cross efasciatus with rotkeil you’ll end up with a lot of fry that look like efasciatus. But because there are lots of rotkeil hybrids floating around, if the efasciatus parent contains rotkeil genes and you breed it to a rotkeil you will get some percentage that turn red.

Thanks for the reply. I will separate if need be. What about crossing the green severum with red spot severum? Same idea problems as above?

 

[FrankTheTank110183]

Thanks for the reply. I will separate if need be. What about crossing the green severum with red spot severum? Same idea problems as above?

Or the red shoulder with red spot?

 

[ryansmith83]

Again, it depends on the genetics of the parents. “Red spotted” genes are a mess because they’ve been heavily inbred and line-bred to get their color. I’ve seen fry from crossing those to greens and you get a weird mix of greens, a gold -looking fish, etc. Personally I don’t believe in raising hybrids so I keep all my Heros lines separate. They will readily interbreed but I don’t raise those spawns.

 

[duanes]

How many times would you go out of your way, and how far would you go to acquire something that could only truly labeled as mutts ?