TX peacock introduction project

[Copper2]

Hi everyone, I need to know some things on Pbass for a breeding project to potentially release them into power plant lakes in Texas with the Texas parks and wildlife. I’m only fourteen and have never caught one of these but I’m fascinated with them. Texas had Pbass introduced a few decades ago to lakes that had power plants running only part time. This resulted in the fishing dying in winter. Several new plans have been made for these fish to come back to lakes more consistent in temperatures like lake braunig in San Antonio. These were shut down because of the potential for the fish to get loose in nearby rivers despite the temperature barriers. These fish could be made sterile though and then upon approval released in Texas for anglers as an alternative to fishing in South America and Florida for them.
My questions:
1. are they easy to induce breeding.
2. Is anyone willing to study their fish and breed them.
3. These fish must be made Tripold using a simple procedure of sticking the eggs in a pressure thing(?).
4. How many hybrids between species can be made and who is willing to try it even if it doesn’t work whatsoever. This doesn’t have to be rocket science.

Thanks everyone who participates!

 

[Deadliestviper7]

There all subspecies and hybridize readily.
They hate tempetures under 70 degrees.
Your best bet is to add a lot of florida specimens to your breeding stock to increase hardiness in your area.

I congratulate you for doing this (we're trying to reintroduce muskies in arizona,there's a online petition that I would encourage you to sign.

Not really sure how to make fish triploid,think it has to do with shocking the eggs?

You should also make sure there is sufficient aquatic vegetation and prey for the peacocks(for prey sunfish,crappie,and Texas cichlids could be introduced prior to the peacocks).

 

[Copper2]

Thanks Deadliestviper7. Teams from the Texas parks and wildlife have already studied these lakes and had found funding and stock from Florida for the fish. The only reason it wasn’t completed was because of the potential to escape and manage to live in other rivers and lakes causing natives to decline, those teams that wanted them are still apart of the parks and wildlife but need a better reason then temperature boundary’s to once again call a meeting with the executives otherwise you guessed the answer to stocking them in Texas- no.
Your right on the eggs, you have to pressurize them. Also on the hybrids I’m looking into a butterfly X Temensis peacock for larger sizes and more aggressiveness.
Also could you give me the link to the Muskie petition, I would like to go fishing nearby for them

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Thanks Deadliestviper7. Teams from the Texas parks and wildlife have already studied these lakes and had found funding and stock from Florida for the fish. The only reason it wasn’t completed was because of the potential to escape and manage to live in other rivers and lakes causing natives to decline, those teams that wanted them are still apart of the parks and wildlife but need a better reason then temperature boundary’s to once again call a meeting with the executives otherwise you guessed the answer to stocking them in Texas- no.
Your right on the eggs, you have to pressurize them. Also on the hybrids I’m looking into a butterfly X Temensis peacock for larger sizes and more aggressiveness.
Also could you give me the link to the Muskie petition, I would like to go fishing nearby for them

I really can't post links sadly,but if you type in " muskies in arizona " it should come up.

Not sure how you could stop peacocks from spreading besides temp differences.

 

[Copper2]

Making them sterile. I need help on their breeding. The time you pressurize the eggs and when from they are fertilized depends on the species. I don’t think it’s been done on cichlids but it’s widely done on trout, and carp and it should be able to be done on any fish species.
Making them triploid is simple. The eggs have an extra chromosome that is usually ejected once the egg is fertilized. By timing it correctly after it’s fertilized the pressurization should prevent that chromosome from being ejected. The eggs are usually pressurized for about 5 minutes.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Maybe if we move this thread to the general aquaria forum we'll get more answers.

 

[Copper2]

Ok, how do you do that? I did the petition

 

[Copper2]

I reposted it in general aquarium but don’t know how to move it... Do hybrids show better traits then the parents in Pbass, and are speckled hybrids bigger then the non-speckled species(butterfly maybe?) but still smaller then the speckled parent

 

[Copper2]

Also to make triploid fish the eggs can be shocked by rapid water temp change

 

[Copper2]

They also have to be all females since some escape the triploid process and if it was both males and females they of course could breed. This is explained more in the reposting. I have to say this is probably the only way these fish could be introduced legally to Texas, BUT WOW the fish and game has a lot of demands otherwise it won’t happen!!!