Need help sexing texas/parrot hybrids.

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the males are not fertile, you have to line breed your batch to get the fertile genes, for example take f0 (the father a tex., and mother a fader to make f1), then cross the father with (f1 fader daughter to make f2), then cross father with (f2 fader daughter to make f3), then you should have fertile f4 red sb tex males.

p.s. (f3 are 7/8 tex genes with the fader genes)
the whole batch will fade when crossed with f4 fader males to f1 fader females
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Thanks for the info but I'm not interested in breeding red texas. I do not want infertile males, I do not want to inbreed so extensively. And to be honest the normal Green Texas coloration is more beautiful to me.
 
I've a feeling the orginal breeder kept most (if not all) of the male stock back for breeding.
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the males are not fertile, you have to line breed your batch to get the fertile genes
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I didnt even think of it quite that way, there were something like 25% faders in this batch...maybe more, but I've traded several so no way to know for sure.
 
it is not inbreeding, it is line breed to keep that blood line from crossing out.
the other way is selective breeding, where you pick traits of the fish you like to be breaded into your next batch of fries.
the sb tex is breaded with a parrot to get their sb. so 9 out of 10 males are not fertile
 
you maybe right, but it all depend on whos' genes is stronger the mom or the dad.

i got some females before that has a body of males down to the t. i didn't know in till they started to lay eggs
 
it is not inbreeding, it is line breed to keep that blood line from crossing out.
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Line breeding is still inbreeding, it's just done with more care, choosing the healthiest, more vigorous fry to hold back for breeding. If you dont allow the line to "cross out" that means you are pairing related fish. No matter how carefully it is done, if you dont introduce new blood after so many generations they will decrease in size, fertility and overall health.

the sb tex is breaded with a parrot to get their sb. so 9 out of 10 males are not fertile
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Only if the percentage of parrot blood is something like 75%(?...not sure exactly but something like that) or higher. Any normal (normal= pure wild type) bred to an sb should (theoretically) produce fertile male offspring.

All the stuff we're talking about here is why I went the route I did Chris. With my line of sb texas I'll never have this problem, they're something like 75% GT. I will possibly tinker with them a bit more, my fh and the texas parrots would be cool to incorporate into the mix. Titus my sb FH crossed to a pure escondido, the resulting fry could then be crossed to my recent batch of Green Texas X sb Green Texas fry. Still not sure about that yet.

Soon nothing in my tanks will be less than 50% GT, and thats a low estimate. The fry I'm starting with are already more than 50% GT, the father was pure GT, the mother had to have at least 25% GT, I'm guessin more like 50% by the look of her. I think ultimately selective breeding and occasional crossing back to pure GT will produce the look and the genetics I'm after.

Soon nothing in my tanks will be less than 50% GT...
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Which is total crap cuz of course I have Titus, the texas parrot females which are mostly parrot, my pink flower jellybean project, my delhezi bichir Crunch, the as yet unamed senegal bichir.....
 
50% of my fish are Blood Parrots
16% of my fish are Flowerhorn
66% of my fish are Hybrids
33% of my fish are Pure (as far as I know)
100% of my fish are cichlids
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I love it, thats perfect Chris.
 
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