Why are platinum bichir not farmed?

[Amelia123]

Captive bred bichirs get to a "bottle neck" in genes very quickly. Captive bred sens, dels, endli all have genetics different then their wild counter parts. Smaller size, lack of pattern, head shape differences all qualities that are not desirable. Most of the hard core bichir people can look at the fish just from head shape and tell you it's cb or not. I am not that good I don't see the subtle differences, but I've seen some bad ones and said that's obviously cb. As for what you are saying about the platinum color morph and how it should work you are correct there is a little more to it but basics is correct. Now are those platinum bichirs we just created going to be viable? Or do we need to diversify the gene pool more already? I don't know as I've not bred them. At what point in the generations do you get sens that don't get bigger then 6" or develop weird spinal issues or fin issues or health issues. I reentered the fresh water fish world with 2 sens from petco albino and a regular neither one has grown past 6" and the regular one died from a tumor. He lived for about 3 years. The albino I still have and he's just barely 6". I know they are captive bred. I'd say if you find a platinum bichir for $60 stay away from it. Cheapest platinum bichir I have seen was 2 sens at $175 each. I wouldn't even say they were grade "a" or how ever they market it. When Polyaddict86 says it's not that easy and there is stuff we don't know he right. With this fish in particular it's not that simple. Like I said above getting them to breed usually takes hormones, but it seems they are finding ways around that and even some hobbiests are having luck getting them to breed.

That's interesting. I was wondering about that too: that even if you get two parents of one color of animal that you like, if you keep breeding them from the same stock and with each other, then the other problem you will have is inbreeding and health problems. Maybe they're more expensive because it's harder to breed HEALTHY platinum bichirs that don't have health problems because of their recessive genes? I don't know. Recessive colored animals, also have more recessive gene health problems too.

 

[giseok jung]

Also not being rude, and with due respect, but have you bred two platinum bichirs together, which produced brown offspring? Since what I was saying is from standard genetics textbooks plus known animal husbandry breeding, then the duty is not on me to prove what I was saying, because it's already accepted as true, in science. The only person who would have to prove it, is someone who disagreed with known science.

There is some breeding report between Platium pair of Endlicheri and senegalus in Japan and Korea.
But they produce many platinum baby just as normal pair.