What are they?? F1? F2? F?

[balton777]

What is the 'F' designation for a cichlid if the father is wild caught and the mother is F1? Are the offspring F1 because it's the starting point of a new diverse gene set produced from unrelated bloodlines? Or in the fish world is it considered F2?

 

[japes]

I'm thinking F1, providing the F1 Mother isn't a previous spawn of the F0 Father. That's just my logic though, technically I honestly have no idea.

 

[balton777]

I think they're F1 as well but want to know if I'm wrong.

 

[jmac510]

Theyre like F1.5

 

[jmac510]

or maybe F.5

 

[Onion01]

I am 90% sure that they are F2. You never round down, always up.

 

[Mystix212]

Im saying F1. When you think about it, the fathers side of things (meaning the overall appearance of the fry) wouldn't change at all because its just the 2nd spawning. Not much of an impact.

 

[Tongue33]

I think this is better than trying to find away to get f1's out of a WC and An F0 or F1 '

Better to be right in calling them WCx F1 vs wrong in the above opinions. Just my opinion

http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com/aquainfo/mendelian.html

F generation numbers are to be used cautiously, since misunderstandings may occur. In cases of back cross or out crossing, these numbers are not valid anymore. In general when the fish bred do not belong to the same bloodline or F generation it is better to indicate the two F generations of that particular breeding. For example, if you cross an F2 generation male with an F1 generation female of the same bloodline, it is better to label the fry as F2 x F1. If you cross an F1 parent of one bloodline to an F1 parent from another bloodline, then the fry should be labeled as F1 x F1 and not F2. If you outcross an F1 parent with a wild caught specimen, you should use the F1 x F0 label.

 

[Modest_Man]

I'd call them F2. F1 would be first generation removed from the wild, which they wouldn't be.

The whole F system is pretty screwed up. It's really just a bastardized form of the Filial generations. If we're using the correct form of it wild X F1 would be a new P (or parental) generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_generation

 

[Tongue33]

Exactly making them again F0... Hence making the unknowing think we have something we don't...

So maybe someone needs to re do the class