hybreeding sunfish

[gar man]

I jsut got the idea to try and hybreed sunfish once spring rolls around in here, what I'd like to know is who all here has attempted or successfully done this in their aquarium? I have a 55 I plan on using and I already have a sexually mature female orangespot sunfish that I was thinking about trying to breed with a male green sunfish. The sunfish that I can catch around here are bluegill, green sunfish, and orangespot sunfish. Id like any help you can offer me in my quest

 

[warmouth]

Centrarchid on the NANFA forum has done a number of hybrids especially with Dollar Sunfish and Longears. Many Aquaculturist make a Greengill hybrid for ponds (Green/ bluegill cross).

 

[fisher12889]

Id like any help you can offer me in my quest

It's "hybridizing," not "hybreeding"

Nanfa is probably the best source of information on breeding natives...

 

[Rays of Sunshine]

I will be getting 20 bluespotted X redbreast soon. They were breed accidentally. So might not be a problem if you have a sandy or grave bottom, the right temperature range and plenty of live and varied food.

I wonder if the female was crossed with a large male sunfish, would the offspring be extra large like ligers?
(Female tiger X male lion). However, if a female lion is crossed with a male tiger= regular sized hybrid ligons

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[WahooWillie]

I will be getting 20 bluespotted X redbreast soon. They were breed accidentally. So might not be a problem if you have a sandy or grave bottom, the right temperature range and plenty of live and varied food.

Who told you this? It is my understanding that Lepomis and Enneacanthus cannot hybridize. If they indeed got 20 offspring, I doubt it was accident and they were likely stripped of gametes.

Honestly, if you want to make hybrids, expressing gametes will be the best way to get fertilized eggs. This is simply b/c a female green may not be interested in a male o-spot and vice versa. May I ask why you want to do this? If it is just to see interesting offspring, that's fine, but be ruthless with culling b/c I'd hate for you to have too many to handle and then release them..

 

[gar man]

Its just to see what they would end up looking like and I have a 400ish gallon pond in my backyard to raise them in. I'll prob give them to some of my more responsible friends with aquariums and keep some for my aquarium and pond.

 

[Rays of Sunshine]

I will be getting the bluespotted X redbreast from Zimmerman's fish. They said it was a mistake, the spawn were already showing interesting colors and it is 20. Zimmerman's has no interest in them.

 

[FLESHY]

Who told you this? It is my understanding that Lepomis and Enneacanthus cannot hybridize. If they indeed got 20 offspring, I doubt it was accident and they were likely stripped of gametes.

Honestly, if you want to make hybrids, expressing gametes will be the best way to get fertilized eggs. This is simply b/c a female green may not be interested in a male o-spot and vice versa. May I ask why you want to do this? If it is just to see interesting offspring, that's fine, but be ruthless with culling b/c I'd hate for you to have too many to handle and then release them..

+1...and that sounds like a pain to me. Therefore staying away from this.