How did we get the super red severum?

[dogofwar]

I have my doubts about the amphilophus cross as well...we'd see very different behavior (glass banging and such)...

I don't currently have any super reds, but if I did whether they are technically a hybrid or not wouldn't change my opinion of the fish.

Kind of like fancy discus: ongoing taxonomic classification arguments could result in fish being technically a hybrid or just line bred. Does it really matter? It's the same fish

Matt

 

[dogofwar]

A really angry, funny looking severum...I'd bet barred as well.

Also made me think about the logistics of breeding. Male red devil / female sev... or female red devil / male sev?

Matt

Perhaps this question is better suited for the hybrid board but, for all the people that have successfully crossed severums to Amphilophus or any other species, what did you get?

 

[darth pike]

Perhaps this question is better suited for the hybrid board but, for all the people that have successfully crossed severums to Amphilophus or any other species, what did you get?

What is a blood parrot Alex ...

 

[peathenster]

What is a blood parrot Alex ...

lol that's my point.....we already know what comes out of this particular cross, and it's not super red severum!

 

[Snowflake311]

When I look at my little green severum she has a yellow green back ground to her. I think the golds are a color morphy of the greens. Because you need blue and yellow to make green . What about the terquoise*severum. Some almost look blue. The reason we would not see them in the wild is because it would be a target for anything that wanted to eat it. Bright yellow can't blend in all that well. Also the parents might eat any yellow fry.

But the Asians breed some crazy looking fish. They gave us the flower horn so I would not put it past them to have mixed fish to get the reds. They are also the ones that gave us the GLO fish that has jelly fish DNA to make it glow.

So I think unless someone finds out where the first super red came from and goes there and snoops around we might never know the truth.

I like reading everyones thoughts on this.

 

[Snowflake311]

You can always cross back take a parrot breed it to a severum. Then take thoes fry breed them back to a severum but select the colours and trates you want.

Genetics is a crazy world.

 

[peathenster]

So I think unless someone finds out where the first super red came from and goes there and snoops around we might never know the truth.

Well one can always look at the genetic composition of red severums and see what (or what combination) it's most similar to. It's easy, but expensive.

You can always cross back take a parrot breed it to a severum. Then take thoes fry breed them back to a severum but select the colours and trates you want.

That's to assume that parrots are fertile, and each backcross produces fertile progenies...

 

[Snowflake311]

Yeah you could have a DNA test done. But what's the fun in that it would be more fun to go to Asia and check it out.

 

[darth pike]

Turquoise sevs are a natural race from Peru. They used to be considered a seperate species, but Kullander collasped them back into greens ... which I don't buy. They have a smaller adult size, and as Ken Davis pointed out ... their range is hundred of klicks away from greens with no connecting species inbetween.

 

[MN_Rebel]

You can always cross back take a parrot breed it to a severum. Then take thoes fry breed them back to a severum but select the colours and trates you want.

Genetics is a crazy world.

Red devil x Severum to get a blood parrot is a myth. Theres no severum genetics in a parrot at all. I dont think I ever seen any hybrid severums beside its own genus.