Why hybrids?

[MN_Rebel]

To be honest, there are plenty hybrids in trade. Platies, guppies, mollies and swordtails are actually hybrids. I don't mind the hybrids in our hobby as long as they are correctly labelled as hybrids instead of sell them as pure stock. Midevils (midas x red devil) are pretty common.

 

[ScatMan]

To be honest, there are plenty hybrids in trade. Platies, guppies, mollies and swordtails are actually hybrids. I don't mind the hybrids in our hobby as long as they are correctly labelled as hybrids instead of sell them as pure stock. Midevils (midas x red devil) are pretty common.

angels and discus too.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

i never really cared either way, i see fish and fish and just buy what i like. it could be some messed up oddball but if i thought it was cool and could house it, i'd buy it

 

[tyl089]

before, I thought hybrid fish wasn't something I'm going to get into either, but then, on a whim as an experiment, picked up some jellybean parrots, and just fell in love with them.

Highly active, social, and totally a breeze to take care of.

sometimes, just got to try it first before one make a cold judgement call.

 

[ScatMan]

before, I thought hybrid fish wasn't something I'm going to get into either, but then, on a whim as an experiment, picked up some jellybean parrots, and just fell in love with them.

Highly active, social, and totally a breeze to take care of.

sometimes, just got to try it first before one make a cold judgement call.

they're not hybrids, just short-bodied convict cichlids.

 

[808cichlids]

they're not hybrids, just short-bodied convict cichlids.

i read somewhere that they were 3/4 convict and 1/4 severum because they came from a blood parrot breeding with a convict. sorry, but i forget where i read it

 

[Chris E]

Nice to see a range of explanations on the subject, I know it an be a bit on the sensitve side for some people, but I appreciate peoples reasoning on this. I do find some hybrids to be very attractive, some less so, but realise that what someone adores, another will dislike, it doesn't make either position incorrect.

 

[Brian_Indiana]

it would be more like a human mating with a gorilla and getting freakish offspring. On that note, I like my humarilla, no matter how mentally challenged and funny looking it may be.

Nice! What about Manimal? He solved crime.

.....Also many aquarist believe it is our job first and foremost to be stewards of our world....

I have to agree with Oscarum's position that most fish keepers are just people that enjoy the hobby and its not really that deep...myself included.

i never really cared either way, i see fish and fish and just buy what i like. it could be some messed up oddball but if i thought it was cool and could house it, i'd buy it

Exactly! My FH and line-bred Africans are not part of a socio-political statement; I just think they look cool.

 

[Gruff Master]

Nice! What about Manimal? He solved crime.

Off topic but, man you really brought back some memories when you mentioned Manimal! I loved that show, more than most hybrids! I also liked the show Werewolf too. Ok nostalgia is over, back to hybrids.

 

[ScatMan]

i read somewhere that they were 3/4 convict and 1/4 severum because they came from a blood parrot breeding with a convict. sorry, but i forget where i read it

with the logic that they are blood parrot (a hybrid of 2 other fish, probably severum x red devil) x convict that would mean that you need a total of "3" different fish, because blood parrots don't have convict in them.

3/4 con + 1/4 severum is only 2 fish, you need to squeeze a 3rd fish in there somewhere. so wherever you read this, it's wrong.

i don't want to hijack, so i'm not going to go into any detail here, just search them again, there's a bunch of threads about them here on mfk.