Should I order from 2 different vendors to make sure I don't have inbreeding of brother and sisters or no
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Ordering Trimac's to breed question
- Thread starter Hellman
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Sure. Just make sure the two vendors don't share the same source for Trimacs. Good luck!
Breeding sibling fish doesn't matter.
I'd get them both from Rapps to ensure that 1) they're from the same population / location (trimacs have a wide distribution), 2) they're actually fish with provenance and 3) don't have lymph.
Matt
I'd get them both from Rapps to ensure that 1) they're from the same population / location (trimacs have a wide distribution), 2) they're actually fish with provenance and 3) don't have lymph.
Matt
According to CRC: http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery/species.php?id=191
Type locality: Chiapam and Huamuchal, Guatemala.
Inhabited countries: Guatemala (native), Honduras (native), Mexico (native), El Salvador (native).
...so potentially every stream / body of water / watershed in which they're found could be "different" in ways that are visible to the eye or not.
Matt
Type locality: Chiapam and Huamuchal, Guatemala.
Inhabited countries: Guatemala (native), Honduras (native), Mexico (native), El Salvador (native).
...so potentially every stream / body of water / watershed in which they're found could be "different" in ways that are visible to the eye or not.
Matt
It's much different than in humans. How many generations of inbreeding do you think go into producing, say, a new variety of fancy discus or angelfish? Lots.
Same with how many generations of inbreeding occurred to produce the unique populations of Gymnogeos, pikes, chanchitos, catfish, etc. in various ponds throughout Uruguay. How often is "new" blood from a neighboring stream or larger body of water introduced? Maybe once per decade (or more often now because of global warming
)...
The important thing is to not breed fish with deformities or other problems. They (likely) wouldn't survive in nature but they can do just great in aquariums.
You can introduce lots of genetic diversity by crossing two trimacs from different regions. Not sure that's what the best thing to do is, though!
Matt
Same with how many generations of inbreeding occurred to produce the unique populations of Gymnogeos, pikes, chanchitos, catfish, etc. in various ponds throughout Uruguay. How often is "new" blood from a neighboring stream or larger body of water introduced? Maybe once per decade (or more often now because of global warming
)...The important thing is to not breed fish with deformities or other problems. They (likely) wouldn't survive in nature but they can do just great in aquariums.
You can introduce lots of genetic diversity by crossing two trimacs from different regions. Not sure that's what the best thing to do is, though!
Matt
All those 'unique' populations you mention, tied to specific locales or bodies or water is surely not made of siblings and inbreeding. It is not as if the fish quantities ina given place match a" normal breeders collection.
So can we agree too order from different vendors
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