Your Views On Hybrids?

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It is whole new world. being able to discover hybridizing as a hobby is a good thing offered by mother nature.. But it has its limits at infertility.
 
The hybrids are very common in the wild. When I work with the Fisheries, I learned that hybrids can be common or rare in the lakes. Hybrid sunfishes, hybrid minnows, hybrid bullheads, hybrid crappies, hybrid esox (pickerel/pike/muskellunge) and even hybrid darters are common in the wild and they are hybridizing naturally without any help from the humankind. Even you can find hybrid birds, mammals and reptiles in the wild and they are not rare. I know a lake that is full of Green sunfish X Orangespotted Sunfish and they are usually reverts back to either parental species after few generations of breeding.

If you dont think hybrids are not natural, then you are dead wrong. Fancy goldfish, English bulldog, Holstein cattle, Mini Horse and White Turkey.....these animals are NOT natural but they are not hybrids. It doesn't matter if its pure or hybrids, you get deformities from both. Blood parrots may be deformed but they have almost zero health problems and can live longer. Flowerhorn are not only fish that has huge kok....pure species has kok too.
 
MN_Rebel said:
The hybrids are very common in the wild. When I work with the Fisheries, I learned that hybrids can be common or rare in the lakes. Hybrid sunfishes, hybrid minnows, hybrid bullheads, hybrid crappies, hybrid esox (pickerel/pike/muskellunge) and even hybrid darters are common in the wild and they are hybridizing naturally without any help from the humankind. Even you can find hybrid birds, mammals and reptiles in the wild and they are not rare. I know a lake that is full of Green sunfish X Orangespotted Sunfish and they are usually reverts back to either parental species after few generations of breeding.

If you dont think hybrids are not natural, then you are dead wrong. Fancy goldfish, English bulldog, Holstein cattle, Mini Horse and White Turkey.....these animals are NOT natural but they are not hybrids. It doesn't matter if its pure or hybrids, you get deformities from both. Blood parrots may be deformed but they have almost zero health problems and can live longer. Flowerhorn are not only fish that has huge kok....pure species has kok too.
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I agree. If it is done to better the breed. I don't have a problem with it. Yes there are always going to be undesirable offspring, They need to be culled, Or at the very least, Not reproduced. And definitively not sold.

My girlfriend crossbreeds bettas sp. with wild varieties. It produces a stronger, healthier bettas. The healthiest ones, With the most desirable traits are then added back into the gene pool. She tracks the crosses, and traits. For future breedings.

But I've seen goldfish, That the main thought going threw my mind was "THAT'S JUST WRONG!!!" And they were pure breed!

Spike:grinno:
 
iloveoscars702 said:
it depends on what kind... like blood parrots, i hate those, ex:
tattooed-parrot-fish.jpg
that is just wrong.

other hybrids like rtcxtsn or henleixmotoro, im fine with since its "natural"
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That's not an hybrid. They are dyed.

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MN_Rebel said:
The hybrids are very common in the wild. When I work with the Fisheries, I learned that hybrids can be common or rare in the lakes. Hybrid sunfishes, hybrid minnows, hybrid bullheads, hybrid crappies, hybrid esox (pickerel/pike/muskellunge) and even hybrid darters are common in the wild and they are hybridizing naturally without any help from the humankind. Even you can find hybrid birds, mammals and reptiles in the wild and they are not rare. I know a lake that is full of Green sunfish X Orangespotted Sunfish and they are usually reverts back to either parental species after few generations of breeding.

If you dont think hybrids are not natural, then you are dead wrong. Fancy goldfish, English bulldog, Holstein cattle, Mini Horse and White Turkey.....these animals are NOT natural but they are not hybrids. It doesn't matter if its pure or hybrids, you get deformities from both. Blood parrots may be deformed but they have almost zero health problems and can live longer. Flowerhorn are not only fish that has huge kok....pure species has kok too.
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Good point.
You see the same nonsensical hate towards hybrids in the reptile hobby.
In the wild where corn snakes range overlap yellow rat snakes, You find cornsnakes with small percentages of yellow rat snake in them and vice versa.
 
I don't care either way. i currently own hybrids and also w.c. purebred fish... What matters to me is the fishes' looks and his/her personality. That's what makes them a keeper to me!
 
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