Re: Hybrid ethics-was Re: [RML] Melanotaenia marcii

Christopher Philip Benes (beneschr at pilot.msu.edu)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 22:41:49 -0500 (EST)

For what it's worth, there are 3 species of angelfish, and two are regularly
crossed, P. scalare and P. altum. I've never seen them in a shop, but many
breeders sell them, but they sell them as something along the line of "scalare
x altum crosses" or "altum crosses". Interestinly enough, from what I've been
told it is easier to cross P. altum with P. scalare in the aquarium than it is
to breed P. altum true, don't know, never tried either. I've also been told
that the heckelii (I think I'm spelling that right) subspecies of whatever
species of discus it's a subspecies of has in fact never been bred true in the
aquarium, just crossed with other subspecies. I'm not sure I beleive in never,
but hey these are all things I'm told.

Hey, isn't this a rainbowfish list, you say? Well sure, but come on, you can't
talk about rainbowfish ALL the time :).

Christopher Benes
beneschr at pilot.msu.edu
www.msu.edu/user/beneschr

>
> At 11:09 30/01/98 -0800, Michael Serpa wrote:
>
> >Carvi, A hybrid comes from the crossing of two different species,
> >a species and a hybrid or a hybrid with another hybrid. I doubt
> >that there are hybrids of Discus or Angels. Just colors morphs.
> >If you make a cross within a genus(betta splendens x betta coccina)
> >you have a hybrid betta. If you make a cross between a betta and gourami
> >you, technically, have a new genus. Creating and naming man made
> >genera is commonplace with orchids but doesn't seem to be the practice
> >with fish. (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> Michael, at last count there were three species of Discus, and some
> subspecies in there as well - someone correct me, I am going off memory
> here. They have all been pretty well blended by hobbyists. The two angel
> species I am not so sure of.
>
> Crossing fishes of different genera doesn't happen that often, but it does
> happen - there was a cross between an Australian rainbow (I can't remember
> the species) with either the Celebes or Madagascan rainbows...
>
> Regards, Andrew
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