Fantastic Opinion Read on Hybrids

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http://www.cichlidresearch.com/hybrids.html

Notice it says "opinion". Rally didn't know that is was originally posted elsewhere but shouln't be closed.

It was moved by the mods from here general aquaria to the Hybrid Section....then closed in the Hybrid section because it was in the wrong place. Odd.


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before this gets any worse I'm going to close it. I wish I would have caught this earlier. The hybrid section is intended to discuss hybrid fish, not discuss how to get rid of them. Feel free to post it elsewhere, but I don't feel that it belongs in the hybrid section.
 
Funny that the example used is a tatooed tinfoil barb and not a hybrid.

If the "danger" of hybrids is that one might jump into another tank and breed with another (closely related) fish, isn't the "danger" just as great that one wild-type fish will jump into another tank and breed with another different species?

One of the ways that this article is short-sited is not differentiating between intentional hybrids and line-bred fish. If the argument is that "if it's different than nature" it's bad, then there are lots of examples of line-bred fish in the hobby that aren't technically hybrids. Are they all "bad" and should be immediately destroyed?

Fish that "improve" on nature have been part of the hobby since ~200AD (colored koi)...and make up some of the most popular fish in the hobby: fancy bettas, fancy guppies, fancy livebearers, fancy angelfish, etc., etc.

Selling any fish as something that they're not is bad - hybrids or otherwise.

This guys opinions don't seem supported by logic...
 
alright, old thread diggin. I'm gonna beat everybody one day and bump the oldest one I can find.

I'm alright with FH's, not really planning on keeping any again any time soon. It's the random ones that still kind of bother me, especially when they're relatively rare species.
 
That dood is a knucklehead. Dogs and cats cant produce offspring, and that isn't the first thing I almost spit my drink out on, just one of the better "points" they made. Brilliant piece of jurnolism, "DESTROY THEM IMMEDIATLY" really made me tear up, such passion for the hobby.
Dogs were breed for looks and purpose, as were cattle and everything else Man has ever put his hand to. Thats the way we do it. Deal with it in your own way, as for me I dig the **** out of it.
 
"It's the random ones that still kind of bother me, especially when they're relatively rare species."

What really bothers me is people passing off random fish (especially as fry) as wild or F1... this has nothing to do with hybrids and everything to do with being honest and responsible.
 
Ya, if it is Hybrid, say it is. I have a Midas and a couple of Red Devils but who the heck can be sure how inbred they are with one anothers species. Some fish are much more willing to spawn with other breeds, a Red Devil / Midas can't pass on a shot at love so anything they are kept with is going to get raped or killed in my experience.
 
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