Do cichlids inbreed?

[fishjude78]

Just wondering because I have convict fry in a 10 gallon, and it occurred to me that if guppies could inbreed could cichlids? Believe me, I don't want to, I just was curious.

 

[FishArt]

Yah, why not.

 

[brown2010]

Just wondering because I have convict fry in a 10 gallon, and it occurred to me that if guppies could inbreed could cichlids? Believe me, I don't want to, I just was curious.

yeah. thats how they get different color strains of fish like angels. get a silver brother sister pair, and you have one offspring with more black then the others, and then start breeding out that one fish to fix that trait. least thats how it was explained to me, could be wrong.

 

[knifegill]

Happily. They will inbreed until sterile, deformed and permanently living in crippled pain. Don't let it happen or the fish gods will strike you. Or something.

Line breeding is alright as long as you introduce fresh genes every two or three generations, but direct sibling inbreeding quickly kills a genepool. Look at british royalty.

 

[fishjude78]

hahahaha^ yeah, I don't plan on doing it, I was just curious.

 

[ymolina]

yea thats were they get the pink convicts from if im not mistakin but that is generations of inbreeding.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

if people do it...........i don't see why fish wouldn't = )

 

[ymolina]

lol

 

[Jay-C]

i would guess most captive bred cichlids sold at the lfs are inbred

my f1 freddies are siblings and breed like clockwork, nothing ever wrong with the fry

 

[thedarkone]

Happily. They will inbreed until sterile, deformed and permanently living in crippled pain.

Couldn't have said it better myself.