Short body Green Terror fertility question...

[izzy_here]

inbreeding BPs is not what causes most of the males to be infertile, its being a hybrid.

I am not completely convinced of that...but rather than argue the point I will concede that it is possible.

 

[FishFreak95]

But then why would Flowerhorn and other hybrids be fertile?

In hybrid cichlid males, they are usually infertile. Flowerhorns i don't know why most of them are fertile(maybe breeding the few males that were found to be fertile?). I think inbreeding decreases the chance of being fertile and so does being a hybrid(I don't mean hybrids that have been crossed with fish in the same genus). And not all hybrids are infertile, for some animals most of the hybrids of them are fertile.

 

[izzy_here]

In hybrid cichlid males, they are usually infertile.

I assume you mean between two different genus...there are tons of cross's that are indeed fertile.

I do get what your saying fishfreak95...many of the new domestic X wild cat hybrids suffer from infertility in the f1 males. This is because they aren't quite compatible genetically (different number of chromosomes I think) not because they were inbred.

 

[Chrisplosion]

Maybe breeding outside the genus reduces fertility. Most flowerhorn have more Amphilophus in them than anything else. Blood parrots more than likely have Amphilophus and Veija in them.

 

[izzy_here]

Maybe breeding outside the genus reduces fertility.

I think your right Chris. Here's an interesting tidbit...when breeding srt's the more midas blood the lower the fertility in males.