DNA check our fish

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Aquanero said:
http://www.fishdnaid.com/contact.html

give them a call and see what they have to say about it.
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holly dookie. that's what Im takin about. I havent looked at it yet but it says fish ID. That's what's up. I'll check



The FH hobby is not an official breed kind of hobby. The pure breed hobby is the official breed hobby. And DNA will confirm the bloodline of a fish being pure to make officially a pure breed if you are unsure. Then ppl don't have to take fish from the wild to be sure.

Just because I mentioned about my FH and wanted to know it's bloodline does not mean this should go straight to the Hybrid section. That's just an idea of one thing i can do when I find a local area .



I want an in home cichlid DNA testing Kit!! So what where can I get that?

Aweshade9 said:
I beleive that is a blue texas or Herichthys cyanoguttatus
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Looks like a Cyano right? I would've thought that too.. But I saved this picture from an ad. The seller created him with a kml FH X Cyano. Maybe old owner/seller might see this and say something..

But yeah you see how it is ?

We need Cichlid DNA testing KIT. Is that even possible?
 
To my knowledge nothing like that exists for fish. DNA would need to be taken and then matched against a data base (if one existed) to establish species, sub-species, race etc. The idea is interesting but nothing like that has ever been developed as far as I know. However the link I posted is to a lab that might be able to establish a species ID so it might determine if the fish in question was a pure breed fish of or mixed origin. You should call them and see what they say and how far they are able to take it.
 
thanks. I will ask them.



I dont think in America we got all the world's fish DNA yet :(

But I heard Umbeeking DNA checked his Gorillus .And I heard Skip on youtube talk about DNA all the time. Itried to ask him but no reply yet.
 
There are DNA labs where samples are stored but do not expect answers from them like most other DNA samples they have. If you insist i will dig up the names of these labs who are funded and controlled by the big pharmaceuticals hence why they will not give out answers to just anyone. For example the big one in the USA is owned/controlled by Monsanto. I also know of one in Japan and one in Europe. Of all of these the "friendliest" is the one in Japan, this happens to be the one trying to recreate the woolly mammoth from fossil DNA and an asain elephant.
 
Wow ok so here it is for DNA testing to happen you would have to first find a university or a organization that specializes in taxonomy with an extensive database of DNA samples of wildlife all over the world then u would have to take a fin clipping from a fish say a SRD for a DNA sample then they would have to analyze the sample and come up with a genetic sequence then they would have to spend a period of time comparing the SRD to DNA of other central american cichlids and this would not be simple or cheap to do to get a dog tested is well over 2 grand so even if there was someone out there doing this it would be a complete waste of mony just to find out if you have what a store said they sold you even though it would be cool and what changes the DNA of a species is natural selection and survival of the fittest better known as a darwins theories one species population gets separated in two habitats for say 3 centuries same species two variants for instance vieja fenestratus and then vieja fenestratus pink(indigenous to a volcanic lake) another example hemichromis elongatus and hemichromis frempongi (indigenous to lake bosumtwi a crater lake)

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The University of Florida aquaculture facility offers DNA testing on fish. I have had fish tested there several times, in conjunction with the university of Tennessee-Knoxville.

The testing involves taking a fin clipping and testing it against a known specimen in their database. This will confirm if the DNA markers are identical or different. Additionally, there is a morphological test that determines if environmental factors have impacted the specimens appearance. As an example, citrinellums develop different colors due to different water ways they may reside in. But while the fish is morphologically different it is the same fish. If you are trying to figure out what two fish create a hybrid that is exponentially more expensive as it involves random testing.


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