Should I keep these fry?

[Destroyer551]

Maybe you should of been throwen away when you were born cause you were too ugly. These are fish, living animals. Its people with your negative and close minded mindset that ruin this hobby. It isnt all about a profit or breeding fish to look impressive so you can show that off to your friends.

That's so true, thank you for stating this.

 

[Mattyou]

Its a living animal. Is that all fish are to some of you guys, just something that needs to be pretty enough or the right fish for you to make a profit or something? I voted YES to keep them. Even if you dont want them give them away.

Kill em, cook em and eat em so miss fancy pants does not cry.

They are gonna be dog ugly.

 

[Mustbehi]

keep them

 

[fobrinkle]

No, simply because it is a step back.

 

[knifegill]

I would raise them as feeders. At least then they aren't being wasted.

 

[iManipulate]

I'm not into the whole FH thing, but I know its like a big thing. If the fry wont turn out the way you want em to, raise them as feeders. I'm raising bettas and tbh if some turn out ass ugly, I'm using them as feeders.

 

[Camphilophus]

are you sure that's a true trimac...?

as I stated in my original post it's a f1.

Its a living animal. Is that all fish are to some of you guys, just something that needs to be pretty enough or the right fish for you to make a profit or something? I voted YES to keep them. Even if you dont want them give them away.

Would you like me to raise all 300 of them just because they are living? Just because it's a living animal doesn't mean it would be a good idea to raise 300 fish that are all going to get a foot long. I'm sure I will find great homes for all of them! NOT! Hoinestly, where do you think would be an acceptable place to get rid of these? I could always take them into the LFS so they can sell them to every 8 year old who walks in who wants a few new fish for his 10gallon.

Maybe you should of been throwen away when you were born cause you were too ugly. These are fish, living animals. Its people with your negative and close minded mindset that ruin this hobby. It isnt all about a profit or breeding fish to look impressive so you can show that off to your friends.

Why exactly do you keep fish?

no you are regressing, not progressing

Thanks for your input.

Kill em, cook em and eat em so miss fancy pants does not cry.

They are gonna be dog ugly.

at least you're honest

I would raise them as feeders. At least then they aren't being wasted.

chances are the parents will eat them or the flowerhorn who is divided on the other side anyways.

I'm not into the whole FH thing, but I know its like a big thing. If the fry wont turn out the way you want em to, raise them as feeders. I'm raising bettas and tbh if some turn out ass ugly, I'm using them as feeders.

I use all my fry as feeders that I don't want to so thats where they're likely to end up anyways. The only problem with raising flowerhorns is you can't usually tell what they're going to look like until 2" and if I have to raise them to 2" chances are they won't get eaten.

thanks for everybody's input so far. I'm just going to let the parents raise them for a while. This was more of an experiment for my male. Now I know that he is fertile and that he can get along with a female long enough to breed without killing her.

From the poll statistics I have more people that I'd consider reputable/trustworthy who voted no than the random people who voted yes

 

[fishfreak317]

if you get some decent females. keep those. doing this cross is flooding back in mac genes, and can take a few gens to get it back to desired amount. also what your doing will hopefully strengthen the genes overall, and hopefully make the new gens of this blood less prone to defects and or illnesses. stepping back so far isn't always a desired option for progression of the strain itself, but i feel this is necessary to back breed every handful of gens to help balance/strengthen gene pools.

 

[Camphilophus]

if you get some decent females. keep those. doing this cross is flooding back in mac genes, and can take a few gens to get it back to desired amount. also what your doing will hopefully strengthen the genes overall, and hopefully make the new gens of this blood less prone to defects and or illnesses. stepping back so far isn't always a desired option for progression of the strain itself, but i feel this is necessary to back breed every handful of gens to help balance/strengthen gene pools.

good point. I thought about breeding one of my red dragons to my f1 female barred midas for some of the same reasons.

I love midas and flowerhorns both so why not an in between? I'm always curious to grow out hybrids. It's cool having a fish nobody else has even if it's ugly. That's why I keep a lot of random hybrids but at the same time there are enough flowerhorns that already look like trimacs.

 

[Loves severums]

keep them.