Hybrids?

[proaquatics]

any known hybrids?if so pics and species.

 

[tropheus]

the only known hybrids that i know of belong to pascal , they are gachua x orientalis if i remember correctly , the offspring are not fertile though.

i have not heard of any others

cheers col

 

[Brucki]

Hi Colin,

U are right, there are only the gachua x orientalis known, and they are fertile.
Most of them were bought by IGL-members to get the fish from the market.
so not only Palle has them at home. I Think holger has got some too.
They were accidently bred by a german with not much channa knowledge.

Another guy claimed to have bred gachua x obscura, but He never showed pics.
He also had a breding of two different gachua variants.

Cheers Brucki

 

[tropheus]

ahh thank you brucki for the clarifcation

many thanks col

 

[PhullTank57]

I thought I've heard Pleurophthalma and Lucia crossbreeding before... is this true?

 

[tropheus]

never heard of that one phull , certainly not in captivity as pleuro has not yet bred at all in captivity , they do however come from the same area in the wild so that is a possability i suppose

cheers col

 

[PhullTank57]

Tropheus, here it is... I read it on snakeheads.org. I guess it was just speculation or a thesis of hybridization between the two (C. lucia and C. pleurphthalma).

Another questionable Species description was Ophicephalus "spiritalis" in 1904 by Fowler. However he recognized the similarities to Channa lucia and Channa pleurophthalma
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It took 18 years until a thesis of hybridization was developed by Weber & Beaufort 1922 between Channa lucia and Channa pleurophthalma . After all the species of Fowler originated in pedang (Sumatra) which is home to both Channa lucia and Channa pleurophthalma . This thesis deserves some skepticism. In the end Ophicephalus spiritalis was declared a synonym for Channa pleurophthalma .

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[proaquatics]

^very interesting guys.

Thanks again

 

[tropheus]

Tropheus, here it is... I read it on snakeheads.org. I guess it was just speculation or a thesis of hybridization between the two (C. lucia and C. pleurphthalma).

never noticed that over there before , interesting with them sharing the same waters it is not impossable

cheers col