Ethical Breeding Dilemma

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Vilardz3190

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Hey guys,

I'm in a bit of a weird situation. I had my flowerhorn and texas chicled mated. Only a handful of them made it but nonetheless I still have some. I had them grow in a 30 gallon then put them into my 125 and they grew fast. My flowerhorn was put into a different tank since I started over and had smaller fish in the 125. Now everyone has grown a decent amount, so i put my flowerhorn back with my S. American chiclids as well as the hybrids that were her children. She doesnt recognize that its her children and now here is my dilemma. Her and one of her offspring are starting to pair up now. I'm curious that if inbreeding is a behavior that chiclids have and if so, do those offspring become deformed in any way. Suggestions, advise will be helpfull. Thanks to all who reply.
 
no,this pair will not make much deformed fries as it will be first stage of inbreeding but further crosses may result in much deformities
 
The fish produced from such a union might not be as robust as if there were fresh genetics added in. Deformities are more likely in a situation like this but not necessarily there. If you continued to inbreed further generations you'd run into problems.
 
In the fish keeping industry, inbreeding is very common. Selective breeding (inbreeding) is what resulted in many fish that you see on the market today.

With any sort of breeding, there's always a chance that the offspring would be deformed, whether through inbreeding or otherwise - this is because fish, as with all animals, can contain genetic elements that are muted but when passed on, can be expressed as deformities. Mutations continue to create these muted deformities all the time, though that's separate.

Anyways, when inbreeding, there's a higher chance that as you go down the line, you'll collect enough of these deformities that yeah, will be very apparent, and very bad. The first gen of inbreeding is generally alright, though as you may have guessed, it's all down to chance. You may have healthy fish 20 generations down, or have extremely deformed fish in the first few gens - it is all up to chance, both in terms of what sort of genetics your fish have, and what is passed on.

In my opinion, you *should* be alright. But all up to chance.
 
Vilardz3190 said:
Hey guys,

I'm in a bit of a weird situation. I had my flowerhorn and texas chicled mated. Only a handful of them made it but nonetheless I still have some.
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Flowerhorn is the product of much cross breeding.........In general, if the parents are not deformed and are healthy, then the spawn will come out mostly fine.........A flowerhorn and a texas cichlid will only make a fish that looks like a "flowerhorn........";)
 
If you want to stop in breeding bring new blood lines . That will help lower the chances of getting deformations. It could also increase your chances if introduced to bad blood lines.

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ok cool cool. theres tons of other fish though. I have divided the parents and eggs on on side. Once they become free swimmers I think ill throw the lot in my other tank.
 
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