you may have overlooked that hybridization is one of the major impacts in
evolution. Nature always mixes genes and develops new species, not only by
hybridization, but also. However, the difference is that this lasts a little
longer than in our aquariums.
Harro
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Von: owner-rainbowfish at pcug.org.au [owner-rainbowfish at pcug.org.au] im
Auftrag von Tyrone Genade
Gesendet am: Montag, 11. Juni 2001 11:25
An: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
Betreff: Re: [RML] Hybrid
On 11 Jun 2001, at 0:13, shamus at nwstar.com wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just wanted to ask what do you thing of stores selling Hybrids. As
> http://www.santafefish.com they are selling hybrids they have
> Melanotaenia 'Orange-Tailed Silver'
> Glossolepis incisus, Blushing Red Irian Rainbow
> if you ask me the real incisus lookes better then the aquarium
> strain .
A few notes...
Both the blushing incisus and Orang-Tailed Silver appear to be
nothing more than sellected strains and not hybrids. The Orange
tails are nothing more than boesemani with the blue selected away
(sad as the blue really makes the fish) and the blushing incisus is
nothing more than a fish with an xanthic colour mutations. This is
the effect of mass production not hybridizations. Some allert
persone picked up the mutantion and just bred it out.
I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with selecting for a
desired trait as this is what nature is designed to do in any case
(although the selection criteria are more strict...).
However, hybrids are still :-(. My underlying distaste for hybrids is
because they doe what nature has worked so hard to avoid: mixing
of genes and countering speciation.
While I will certainly hybridize my orchids (which are hybrids
already) I will certainly not make new crosses from pure specis and
would certainly no go and cross out my Disa species! Why?
Because I like the idea that they are natural. I like my rainbows O-
natural like I like my killies and tanganyikans. Hybrids are man
made and lack that million year old charm the wild fish has.
Bye
Tyrone Genade
Southern African Killifish Society Coastal & Offshore Coordinator
AKA 08248
tyronegenade at yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/tyronegenade
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