what about the squeezing method

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fishguts;1141086; said:
well lets all give it a go maybe someone will get lucky. so take 2 fish that will spawn and watch them and as soon as she lays the eggs get them out and start yanking all ur fish out of the big tanks and squeezing the snot out of them maybe u can end up with a quadruple hybrid. lol kidding
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:ROFL: that was funny
I can't wait to go cross my 13" pbass with my friends 3" firemouth!!!
 
PoopSmart;1146356; said:
I have heard of a crazy hybrid between something like a catfish and a carp so it can be done. It sounds stupid tbut there was a post on here about it just recently.

someone try it please.
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It's NOT possible. Maybe the person was describing it as something that just LOOKED like a hybrid between a carp and a catfish.

It is 100% impossible. It's like trying to cross a human with a chimpanzee.

Milking only works with certain species. If you don't do it right, you might squeeze its guts out and kill the fish.
 
This was something I thought about a couple of years ago. I did alot of googling on the subject. It's called "stripping" a fish where you press/stroke on the abdomen of of a ripe female to release the eggs and siphon the milt (sperm) from the males with a cathoder. The eggs and milt are mixed and stirred in a beaker, then put in some sort of special aeroated tank to hatch.

I could only find info on this practice w/ carp and bass. But I could find nothing on cichlids. Seems like a great to ensure viable fry without risk of damage to fish thru fighting, imcompatability, etc.
 
kdenny35;1588281; said:
This was something I thought about a couple of years ago. I did alot of googling on the subject. It's called "stripping" a fish where you press/stroke on the abdomen of of a ripe female to release the eggs and siphon the milt (sperm) from the males with a cathoder. The eggs and milt are mixed and stirred in a beaker, then put in some sort of special aeroated tank to hatch.

I could only find info on this practice w/ carp and bass. But I could find nothing on cichlids. Seems like a great to ensure viable fry without risk of damage to fish thru fighting, imcompatability, etc.
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True, but you risk injury by applying too much pressure and damaging the internal organs.
 
dominicolas;1589925; said:
Does anybody actually know how to milk a fish... Where to squeeze/stroke and how hard? Damit now I feel dirty.
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There's a vid on youtube of a guy milking trout. From what I remember, you grasp with the head facing you in your less dominant hand. Use the dominant hand to gently apply pressure laterally in the abdomen area away from you. I've tried this with sunfish I caught and released, gathered a few mL of milt and eggs, but I didn't have a set up to bubble them. Upon release, the fish acted normally, but I didn't apply much pressure.
 
I wouldn't try it on smaller fish, you couldn't even tell if you got the milt out. It much better on larger species.
 
the problem for you guys is that how are you going to get your female on the day its ripe. they need to be ovulating. the boy aint so hard..but the girl is a pain.

in aquacuture the person is there the day they are ready ussually becasue they injected them with hormones to induce it. something you aint gonna do to a small fish. the hormones only work if the fish is properly in season too.

theres a post above that says it all. not all things will cross, the general rule is crossing ability is the exception. you can sure try fish that come from the same ancestry. some girl tried to tell me that her dog came from a dog cross with a fox. well it turned out that it didnt. she just thought it looked that way..
 
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