wild caught fish

[titansfever83]

This might sound stupid but here ya go....

Will fish in the wild inbreed?

Reason why I'm asking is I'm getting in an order of geophagus(F1) who's parents are from the 'Manaus river'. I cannot find a different supplier with geos from the same river and I have read on some breeding sites that breeders try not to breed the same species from two different rivers. I'm wondering if the geos I'm recieving would pair up and breed. Will it weaken the strain of species like color, immune system, etc?

 

[barley pop]

threy will breed.

the other q's you have i am not sure about

 

[guppy]

Might change the color

 

[Druu]

Not sure if this is applicable to cichlids, but breeders of koi and goldfish sometimes linebreed to keep traits in offspring similar to those of the parents. (Linebreeding is mating offspring to parent.)

 

[dlp40]

weaken ? yes, to a point you weaken but not by much. Line breeding weakens much more. look at those line breed mollies and guppys can't keep them alive in a perfect tank. but wild ones - f5's live just fine and are just slightly weaker each # down the road. Would I worry about 2 f1's making bad babys , no way. if they look good themselves that is. Then you just cull the offspring so no undiserd trait lives on. good luck and I hope my rambling helped