socolofi and labs can't form hybrids right?
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Yes they can i know someone who has some i will try to remember to take camera over there and get you a pic.
i concur... i also red somewheres that the "socolofi" was originally a domestic hybrid, re-introduced into the lake because of a fish kill. i dunno the "truth" behind it. just remeber reading it somewheres, sometime ago. when i was into africans.
hm......so if i have a female socolofi, it could potentially mate with my male lab? i'm just asking this because last night i saw the 2 of them next to each other and then they started swimming in a circle, but today my socolofi doesn't have any eggs, so i do not know what they were doing last night.
They can and if interested enough will. I've had yellow labs and socolofi hybridize with eachother as well as M. greshakei.
Mbuna or Malawi's in general aren't very particular about who they'll spawn with. If they look similar enough (sometimes even that goes out the window) and they get the urge they'll go at it. That's why proper stocking (proper numbers and sex ratios) is important to many Malawi keepers.
Getting hybrids isn't too big of a deal so long as you don't plan on distributing them.
Mbuna or Malawi's in general aren't very particular about who they'll spawn with. If they look similar enough (sometimes even that goes out the window) and they get the urge they'll go at it. That's why proper stocking (proper numbers and sex ratios) is important to many Malawi keepers.
Getting hybrids isn't too big of a deal so long as you don't plan on distributing them.
Maybe. Maybe not. You need to keep track of who's holding and when and separate mothers/fry when necessary if you want to be positive of who's who.
They'll be fine growing up together but for the sake of pure lines mixing them isn't the best idea.
What exactly is it you plan on keeping fry from?
Yellow labs, Socolofi (blue or white?) and labs x socolofi?
What exactly is it you plan on keeping fry from?
Yellow labs, Socolofi (blue or white?) and labs x socolofi?
the socolofi are white. i want more lab fry then hybrid fry. maybe only 3 hybrids. but i want to keep at least 6 or more of the lab's fry. i only have 1 10g tank that i can use as a setup for breeding fry, but i can get a fry net for the hybrids.