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i was not to fond of hybrids for awhile till i bought a flowerhorn by mistakes in a batch of convicts from a whole sale. now im absolutely in love with them and have tried many other crosses with succession. convicts will cross with about anything if given the chance to. i use my 5 inch male black and my 4 inch male pink to cross with my jack and my red devil, a female parrot and even tried with my flowerhorn. some succeed some dont. but the fry that live are cool as hell looking. everything on this planet is a hybrid over a millennium of time. were hybrids, all pets are hybrids. there is no pure lines any more. and there hasnt been for millions upon millions of years.

I think you're confusing evoloution with cross breeding. Plus you bumped a four and a half year old thread.
 
Wow, 7 pages of this, and all I have to say is that you are worried about hybrids affecting nature? Any aquarium raised fish shouldn't be released into the wild, regardless of if it was originally wild or not. By taking the fish out of the wild you are directly affecting nature far more than one flowerhorn, or RD or any hybrid will. What are the chances of it making its way from Michigan to Africa? Not much.
Oh great, I just realized this guy is from my state.... how embarrassing.
 
everything on this planet is a hybrid over a millennium of time. were hybrids, all pets are hybrids. there is no pure lines any more. and there hasnt been for millions upon millions of years.

It's an oldy but goody.

So your 100 % sure T. Rex wasn't a hybrid of several types of Theropoda? How far back do we have to go to get to "pure lines"? Was it before the Dinosaures, before the land was colonized? Percambrian? By your definition the last pure line was the first single celled life on earth, after that everything else for the last 3.5 Billion years is is a hybrid. I think you should rethink your statement or please tell me when the mass hybridization of life on earth began. Evolution and hybridization by definition are two different things.
 
freedom of speech is great, you are entitled and can voice your opinions....... I also like my freedom of choice and right to pursuit of happiness..... cant choose some of our constitutional rights to suit your liking. They all come on one big ole bill, inseparable from each other. now i will go eat my hybrid born steak, with a side of hybrid talapia and hybrid corn and hybrid rice, hybrid bananas in my desert while i watch my hybrid fish in my aquarium made from hybrid (glass)? lol...just kidding about the glass
 
freedom of speech is great, you are entitled and can voice your opinions....... I also like my freedom of choice and right to pursuit of happiness..... cant choose some of our constitutional rights to suit your liking. They all come on one big ole bill, inseparable from each other. now i will go eat my hybrid born steak, with a side of hybrid talapia and hybrid corn and hybrid rice, hybrid bananas in my desert while i watch my hybrid fish in my aquarium made from hybrid (glass)? lol...just kidding about the glass

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To each his own. Me I never buy wild caught because they are too expensive case in piont Afew years ago I bought roseline sharks that cost 35 a piece and they were so touchy they died after a water change. Now you can get them cheaper as they are raised in Florida. The color on my cative bred is just as good as on my wild caught. Just keep up on water changes.
 
This dude is a cruel bastard expecting me to give my hybrid to him. Since he already went biblical with this, All I have to say is that God made every living thing to produce with its own kind. If a hybrid is born, that means its parents migth have been different species, but they bred with their own kind.
 
Wow wow and WOW. This is quite a funny thread. First of all, buying all these "wild fish" has more harm to the ecosystem and the population in the wild itself. Second of all, no hybrid can out compete any wild fish in their natural home due to the reason that they aren't able to adapt to the surrounding and knows its way around survival of fitness. And third of all, hell yes a wild fish is a hybrid themselves. And no fish or any animals itself don't only go through adaptation during evolution and create multiple species itself. Adaptation and cross breeding or "hybridization" over a certain number of years will slowly produce what we call "pure" as of today.

Here's an example. Ramsdeni X Haitainese = Tetracanthus

Hybrids may ruin the LFS for "YOU". But it has no effect against wild population. And just for a fact - mother nature will not allow it to happen. This is why there is no warning about hybridization harming the ecosystem and only the "pure" species itself harming another ecosystem. Which is why we have regulations of certain species is illegal to be sold in a certain state. I'll just leave it from here; please do some homework and it'll help you in the long run.
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This is like politics, not everyone is going to agree... can't we all just get along. Isn't the reason we all keep fish because it's supposed to be fun. I don't care what kind of fish the next person keeps just as long as my fish are happy and I can enjoy watching them.
 
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