im new to this but how do they make-get the hybrids,and has anyone seen a hybrid crossed back in to a rtc
RTC-TSN hybrid how are they made
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I believe its hormones and artificial spawning. Kind of like they do with salmon in hatcheries. And I'm pretty sure at least most hybrids are sterile... kind of like mules...cross a donkey and a horse you can't cross a mule with either cause their sterile.
But Im sure someone else around here knows a lot more than I do
But Im sure someone else around here knows a lot more than I do
I know, but I'm not tellin ya nutin! Ok, ok, so they strip(cut) eggs out of the female of one species, then do the same with the testis of the male of the other species, there is a special solution that they combine them in, and voila! Hybrid catfishies! Hope this helps. More than likely both parents have to die in order to achieve this, and it's very painstaking to try and match up their cycles so that they spawn at the same time. Only about %25 actually fertilize and of those only about 25% actually survive to go on for food production or make it into the hobby. Of those only a very small number will ever make it to the size of mine!!!! LOL!!!
wow if thats true i dont want one even if they are one of my favorites,for some reason i thought that if both adult fish were ready to mate and in the same tank that they might have bred and thats how we get the rtc-tsn cross but i guess not thanks for the new info