my hybred ocar!!!

[lungfishlover]

I think its the bad pictures but from what I see thats how all young oscars look like they will develop colors later on

weedameese is right - all oscars look like this when small.

 

[jclyde13]

Watch out for the dog analogy haha. I tried that one once and a guy on here got in a huge huff and said his father was a dog breeder and I'm wrong and etc etc. Bottom line I don't think he ever took a biology class.

 

[David R]

He's not really a hybrid if his parents were both Oscars

In a biological sense, the word hybrid simply means the offspring of the interbreeding of two animals (or plants) of different taxa. They could be from different genera (intergeneric hybrid), different species from the same genus (interspecific hybrid), different subspecies of the same species (intraspecific hybrid), even crossing two different populations or morphs of the same species would be considered hybridisation.
So a even though the parents are the same species an albino oscar crossed with a tiger oscar is still a hybrid, just on a different level.

 

[Bderick67]

always gotta love the hybrid theories. In definition sense the oscar could be considered hybrid. I myself would not consider it a hybrid.

 

[south15]

since my loisellei and jag are in the same parachromis they wouldnt be hybrids?

 

[caribexr2]

If a dogs born in a stable its not a horse

I like the colour of the baby O though.

 

[youngxpockus]

thanks i no he is a mix o because his brother and sister all,had diffent pattering and he was the only dark one the ress looked lik a albino oscar

 

[Water]

In a biological sense, the word hybrid simply means the offspring of the interbreeding of two animals (or plants) of different taxa. They could be from different genera (intergeneric hybrid), different species from the same genus (interspecific hybrid), different subspecies of the same species (intraspecific hybrid), even crossing two different populations or morphs of the same species would be considered hybridisation.
So a even though the parents are the same species an albino oscar crossed with a tiger oscar is still a hybrid, just on a different level.

Albino Variants are still of the same genetic makeup. There is no hybridizing going on. Albinoism is a recessive trait. It doesn't make the fish any different.

Your fish is not a Hybrid.

 

[caribexr2]

since my loisellei and jag are in the same parachromis they wouldnt be hybrids?

Yes I believe they would be for that as they are 2 completely different fish.

2 Oscars breeding and creating a different colour is not a hybrid. It is just a colour morph/mutation... but its still an Oscar.

 

[David R]

Albino Variants are still of the same genetic makeup. There is no hybridizing going on. Albinoism is a recessive trait. It doesn't make the fish any different.

Obviously they aren't of the same genetic make up or they would look exactly the same. If it was a one-off albino that popped up in a batch of "normal" fry I would agree, as they would still be of the same population. But AFAIK the albino oscars now common in the hobby have been line-bred so they will breed true when crossed and are considered a separate colour morph, so IMO crossing one with a "normal" coloured one should be considered hybridising, albeit at a pretty low level.

Ask any passionate african cichlid purist of crossing two colour morphs of the same species is hybridising, then sit back and wait for the fireworks...