DO WILD CICHLIDS DISPLAY MORE VIBRANT COLORS THAN SECOND GENERATION FISH

[peathenster]

Just for the record, I don't own one wild fish

Also for the record, I have not seen any specimen with better colors than your fish.

Or is the man too skilled with his camera?

 

[cchhcc]

Mob, are you saying those fish are better looking than the tank raised specimen? Promising and similar, but certainly not obviously more striking.

 

[cchhcc]

Wild:

Same species, same size tank raised:

 

[Danger_Chicken]

For the same reasons already listed, I prefer F1. F1 not as shy and the same fish as a WC except it was born in the tank. I also feel bad about taking a free creature and enslaving it in my glass boxes.

 

[Modest_Man]

F12903871293 I pulled out of pond in Hawaii. Red devil/midas mutt from people dumping them in the 70's. Very inbred.

Same fish a week later after being in a tank with no light at all.

It's all in HOW they're raised. Natural sunlight plays a huge part, as does diet. Put a wild fish and a captive bred fish in the same conditions and you'll get the same results.

Cichlidscene's umbee blows those little guys out of the water.

 

[japes]

I voted no.

It's all in HOW they're raised. Natural sunlight plays a huge part, as does diet. Put a wild fish and a captive bred fish in the same conditions and you'll get the same results.

Was about to type essentially the same thing - saved me some work .

 

[armac]

Wild is better, is a myth designed to make WC more expensive, hence better profit margin.

If you cannot ID a fish as WC or captive by visual cues, how can you make a claim tha WC is better. Just by heresay? I breed colorful fish, tell you they are wild, in your mind they wild and beautiful. Hence you feel WC are better. I can even throw in a foreign collection point, that makes it even more desirable.

 

[greenterra]

If you cannot ID a fish as WC or captive by visual cues, how can you make a claim tha WC is better.

This sums it up perfectly IMO and is probably the single best statement/question yet.

 

[syndicate]

one thing i dont get is the whole f0 f1 f2 thing cause if those two F0 had the same fry in the wild they would still be F0's yet is the same fish have the same fry in a tank there F1 and if those fry survied in the wild they would have f0 fry in a tank tho theyed have F2 fry yet the genes have not changed

so really the first ever fish of the spieces would be a F0 and anything caught these days would be F3608200

 

[syndicate]

Wild:

Same species, same size tank raised:

lol your comparing a white one compared to a red one youve made no point

my one crap lighting shes probably a F300 knowing australia