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So I have these impure honduran red point x cutteri hybrids, I raised them because I just wanted to see what they'd look like and I didn't expect many to survive because of how relatively far apart the two genre are, and I'd never had success with accidental cutteri hybrids being viable prior. However this time, all like 200 fry survived and now I have a 20 tall full of fish I don't want to sell or kill manually. I have fish that would eat them if they were big enough, but as it turns out they are not big enough yet. As of recently I was planning on keeping them because the biggest juvenile started showing parental behaviors to younger fry but she got knocked out of place by a juvenile septemfasciata, and the septemfasciata is showing parental care to completely unrelated fry so now I don't actually need the hybrids for that regard. What do I do?
 
So I have these impure honduran red point x cutteri hybrids, I raised them because I just wanted to see what they'd look like and I didn't expect many to survive because of how relatively far apart the two genre are, and I'd never had success with accidental cutteri hybrids being viable prior. However this time, all like 200 fry survived and now I have a 20 tall full of fish I don't want to sell or kill manually. I have fish that would eat them if they were big enough, but as it turns out they are not big enough yet. As of recently I was planning on keeping them because the biggest juvenile started showing parental behaviors to younger fry but she got knocked out of place by a juvenile septemfasciata, and the septemfasciata is showing parental care to completely unrelated fry so now I don't actually need the hybrids for that regard. What do I do?
You can try and sell them to your LFS if thats what you're asking.
 
Selling them to an lfs would get you store credit. If you wanna try to sell them on here with pics of the parents, I bet a lot of people would want that hybrid. You could try selling to a big lfs, and they may want them just because they have never seen them before.
 
You've pretty much eliminated the options of selling, euthanizing and feeding to your still too small fish so I'm not sure what is left to suggest.
 
I don't want to sell them to an lfs because I don't want to put out hybrid genes that random people will buy, misidentify and mix into pure ones
Well I guess I can put them up for sale here but I'm trusting you guys not to sell them as anything they're not
 
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Why not just stick them in with the predatory fish that would eat them, and let them grow up in the predator's tank (to be eventually eaten)?
 
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Why not just stick them in with the predatory fish that would eat them, and let them grow up in the predator's tank (to be eventually eaten)?
Because so far they're growing faster than my trimac and they'll be too big to get eaten by the time she gets big enough to eat them
 
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