IoStrisciare said:
sheesh...
i never said they arent doin their job. Don't put words in my mouth.
Lets say an arowana has a droop eye gene, HYPOTHETICALLY speaking. However, just like a parkinson's or balding, this gene requires a certain age or conditions for blossoming. How would you know if the fish had the recessive gene in the first place?
a dog and a fish are different.
and in an aro farm there are hundreds of breeding fish. Even if one had such a recessive gene you wouldn't know which fish has it. Simple enough.
As someone who has 15yrs of exp. I doubt you wouldn't know how aros are bred.
If your bare tank theory is 100% correct how come there are still hobbyists w aros that have droop eye in tanks tt aren't bare? And the fact that they do not allow food to stay too long at the bottom of the tank?
when the farms harvest their fish they must know which parents the fry come from to be able to tag the fish properly so when the fry is taken from the adults if it comes from one or both parents that have drop eye the fry should be culed and the perants removed from the breeding program to make sure the genetic defect is bred out
if farms admit its a genetic defect then they admitting that it is a problem they need to sort out by doing selective breding and not breeding to make a fast $$$s
i dont understand your point if its genetic then the farms need to work harder to eliminate the drop eye problem wan hu say they are the only farm that do DNA testing so does this mean that none of their aros should get drop eye
if its not genetic then the only other reason a aro can get drop eye is the way it is kept
so do fish that are kept in ponds get drop eye or not ?
then comes the next problem the fish that are in the breeding ponds have they been kept in a pond all their life or have they been raised in a bare bottom where the drop eye could have started before they were put into the pond
only you guys have the answers to thease ?s as i have no experiance of aro breeding