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[duanes]

This is the problem when allowing hybrids to survive.
What do you call them?
What might the LfS call them? Will they be ethical and say they are mutts, or unethical and call thing something else?
Will people that buy them, not realize they are mutts? and then if they spawn again, create more un-namable frankenfish and muddied cichlid waters.
And will we see questions here on MFK asking for an ID, no one can possibly know one can possibly know?
Slippery slope!

 

[Hybridfish7]

This is the problem when allowing hybrids to survive.
What do you call them?
What might the LfS call them? Will they be ethical andsay they are mutts?
Will people that buy them not realizing they are mutts? and then if they spawn, create more un-namable frankenfish.
And will we see questions here on MFK asking foe an ID, know one can possibly know?
Slippery!

1. I just call them "impure honduran red point cutteri hybrids" or to friends who I address them to constantly, "mixed race cichlids"
2. Lfs will probably just call them convicts
3. Guaranteed, some of the bigger ones just look like convicts with white fins when fired down, fired up they look like cutteri in breeding dress
4. Guaranteed

 

[fishdance]

If you decided to keep/breed them, you should be responsible enough to cull them too. That's what informed breeders do to achieve the quality they desire.

Imagine if no one culled any fish?
It's very easy to humanely kill fish if you search. Add them to your fish food ingredients or fertilize your garden if you want to avoid wastage.

 

[Hybridfish7]

If you decided to keep/breed them, you should be responsible enough to cull them too. That's what informed breeders do to achieve the quality they desire.

Imagine if no one culled any fish?
It's very easy to humanely kill fish if you search. Add them to your fish food ingredients or fertilize your garden if you want to avoid wastage.

I am aware of what to cull for since I breed a decent amount of things and I'm aware of how to euth things but these are all healthy fish that I'm in a predicament about because they're just something noone wants
Maybe I will throw them with the trimac and see what happens, she's big enough to eat full sized crickets now so maybe

 

[Ogertron3000]

i would put them in with the trimac, its surprising what a big cichlid can fit in its mouth.
If a few survive and end up living in the trimac tank that might not be a issue, you can see how they look fully grown then.

 

[jjohnwm]

Too ethical to sell them into the trade...too squeamish to cull (and in this case, "cull" means euthanizing all of them)...you've gotten yourself into quite the pickle.

One wonders why you bred those two adults together in the first place? Just for gits'n'shiggles, apparently?

If people insist upon creating little monsters like these, they should at least make sure that they always have a predator handy to do the ethically-necessary dirty work for them.

 

[dogofwar]

Make them available for free and someone will take them - either as feeder fish or just to keep.

Could someone who takes them mis-label and re-sell them as something that they're not? Sure. But the same is true of any fish for that matter.

I can't imagine a LFS would either want them or give you anything for them.

 

[Bizdaddy]

Cull