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[Aquatic Aggression]

Strat if you enjoyed that page you should check this one out - http://gregthecrazyfishguy.wordpress.com/category/genetics/
Greg has some excellently documented hybrid and color morph breeding projects featured on his blog. It's cool people share their experiences with the rest of us in the hobby and I recommend you check it out. He has joined mfk recently but hasn't posted much.

Sorry for the off topic post calihawk! Hopefully we can get some people with heavy ebjd breeding experience to comment on the topic and find out more.

 

[Stratoquarius]

Thanks a tonne aquatic aggression, you definately know what I like. very interesting read, I´m bookmarking both of these sites.

and Calihawk sorry also for the off topic, on subject I feel like unless they do genetic analysis we won´t really even know the difference.
A bifa and a syn are very similar looking yet different DNA cause 2 different species, yet we have some species of cichlids that have radically different colour morphs but the same DNA, like red bay snook and regular snook colouration. so the argument for the radical difference vs the similarities could go either way at this moment in time.

 

[dogofwar]

Development of new species* or speciation is the evolutionary process by which new species arise.

There are lots of mechanisms for speciation...like geographic isolation...or specialization (natural seclection) to better compete in particular niches in the environment...or natural mutations....

Cross breeding two fish in an aquarium, though, isn't one of them...

Matt

* Exactly what constitutes a species is far from a straightforward topic.

Thanks a tonne aquatic aggression, you definately know what I like. very interesting read, I´m bookmarking both of these sites.

and Calihawk sorry also for the off topic, on subject I feel like unless they do genetic analysis we won´t really even know the difference.
A bifa and a syn are very similar looking yet different DNA cause 2 different species, yet we have some species of cichlids that have radically different colour morphs but the same DNA, like red bay snook and regular snook colouration. so the argument for the radical difference vs the similarities could go either way at this moment in time.

 

[Calihawk]

Off topic or not, its cool stuff...Thanx Guys