Reverse-engineering a wild fish by assembly from hybrids

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knifegill

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I know genetically the fish would be radically different from its wild look-alikes, but has anyone made a fish that looks just like, say a Dovii,or any other wild, natural fish from flowerhorn lineages? Has a hybrid popped up that looked unsettlingly like a real fish? I know about FH that look just like Trimacs, but that makes perfect sense. I mean an unrelated fish made of two other species and/or hybrids.

This idea came from the Auroch project.
 
Kaliedoscope said:
Lol it would be difficult... if you did it it would be amazing. Theoretically you could make a texas out of zz's.. that would be the easiest thing to do
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That makes no sense, not to be rude, it wouldn't be full Texas but would look similar or the same like said in the op.

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TankDempsey said:
That makes no sense, not to be rude, it wouldn't be full Texas but would look similar or the same like said in the op.

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I don't think he's saying that you could make a pure bred Texas, but could get a fish that looks like one as suggesed by the OP.
 
Pharaoh said:
I don't think he's saying that you could make a pure bred Texas, but could get a fish that looks like one as suggesed by the OP.
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Yeah got confused there, was tired when I wrote that.
There's hybrids that look similar to species all the time but I'm guessing it would be difficult to make a look alike of any species unless it had that species genes in it.

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