WHY IS CROSS-BREEDING BAD?

[baby bass]

the title says it all

 

[creepyoldguy]

OK, for some reason my post got deleted. It has many downfalls. One of the biggest is the fact that it dilutes a certain species of fish sometimes so badly (i.e. trimac) that it is nearly impossible to get a true species unless from a very reputable distributor. It also leads to a lot of incorrectly id'ed fish from lfs.

 

[pi-eyed]

Agreed. Most lfs trimacs are not trimacs anymore. They are low(very low) grade flowerhorns. Not to mention what they did when they created the blood parrot .
Some cross breeds happen in nature for sure. For example the Tiger muskie here in michigan. Although a rarity it does happen. The flowerhorn the blood parrot and several others were not going to occur in nature.

Just my 2 cents,
Chris

 

[jclyde13]

creepyoldguy covered the main issues with it, but I also hate it because fish (especially CA cichlids) are crossbred to a point where no one knows exactly what species created them, so names are just made up for them. This makes it extremely confusing to anyone who isn't really into hybrids, especially when a fish that has been assigned one name is crossbred again with a fish that has been assigned another name, then their offspring could be crossbred with something else, and it just creates a huge mess.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

i dont care, just be up front with what they are. dont sell them if thats not what they are. I really dont understand all the hate about hybrids.

Ironically, in the gar world hybrids are the holy grail

 

[Freezekougra]

Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between diff cross-bred fish such as a.labiatus and a.citrinellus or h.efasicatus mutts and you have no idea what you're getting...
But if it's something like blood parrots or flowerhorns I don't think it really matters

 

[Sab_Fan]

OK, for some reason my post got deleted. It has many downfalls. One of the biggest is the fact that it dilutes a certain species of fish sometimes so badly (i.e. trimac) that it is nearly impossible to get a true species unless from a very reputable distributor. It also leads to a lot of incorrectly id'ed fish from lfs.

x2 ... buying the right fish is often difficult enough, and then you have the risk of hybrid mutts mudding the picture ...

 

[cichlid fiend]

A cool fish is a cool fish, basically I dont mind !

 

[BigJ]

Its not "bad". Maybe some people dont like it. But its your hobby not there's. You have to do what you like.

I think its awesome. All the new colors ect...

 

[Citrinellus]

OK, for some reason my post got deleted. It has many downfalls. One of the biggest is the fact that it dilutes a certain species of fish sometimes so badly (i.e. trimac) that it is nearly impossible to get a true species unless from a very reputable distributor. It also leads to a lot of incorrectly id'ed fish from lfs.

Agreed. Most lfs trimacs are not trimacs anymore. They are low(very low) grade flowerhorns. Not to mention what they did when they created the blood parrot .
Some cross breeds happen in nature for sure. For example the Tiger muskie here in michigan. Although a rarity it does happen. The flowerhorn the blood parrot and several others were not going to occur in nature.

Just my 2 cents,
Chris

creepyoldguy covered the main issues with it, but I also hate it because fish (especially CA cichlids) are crossbred to a point where no one knows exactly what species created them, so names are just made up for them. This makes it extremely confusing to anyone who isn't really into hybrids, especially when a fish that has been assigned one name is crossbred again with a fish that has been assigned another name, then their offspring could be crossbred with something else, and it just creates a huge mess.

Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between diff cross-bred fish such as a.labiatus and a.citrinellus or h.efasicatus mutts and you have no idea what you're getting...

^ This, the only way to get a pure lab or cit is from a reputable breeder. The ones you see in a fish stores are all crosses now a days.