It is not the fault of the fish that some human put its parents together in
a breeding tank somewhere and against all odds managed to raise up this
hybrid animal. Like Gary said, better to destroy the breeders themselves.
;-) The fish itself has done nothing wrong other than being alive. Find it
a good home where it won't be bred and let it live. In the end, by agreeing
to keep fish, we take on the responsibility of treating them humanely.
Wontonly killing a creature just because of its species (or lack thereof)
just does not seem to be the do-all or end-all of the whole hybrid issue to
me. At least you have a grunter to eat the things, but for most of us you
are just saying to take the fish out of our tanks and whack it against a
wall (or other such action) "just because" and then toss it in the trash or
compost pile. I just have trouble with that. Sorry.
> >>but I'm just as against destroying it because of its history.
> What history is in a hybrid compared to the history in a true species
Julie <><
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Karpa-Wilson <dkarpawi at indiana.edu>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Date: Thursday, 7 June 2001 0:28
> Subject: Re: [RML] RML: "help" ?
>
>
> >>On 6 Jun 2001, at 17:48, Danny wrote:
> >>
> >>> With approx 100 species and possibly 100's of colour morphs naturally,
> Why
> >>> would anyone want to hybridise them?
> >>
> >>Beat me. I don't like the idea of hybridizing fish or anything at all
> >>but I'm just as against destroying it because of its history.
> >
> >I think the issue is that hybrids can always be made, but never unmade,
so
> >as it is in the absence of new collections everything will end up as
> >hybrids. Also, if hybrids are backcrossed, you may end up with hybrids
> >that get mistakenly passed off as the pure strain and then the pure
strain
> >will become quickly compromised because of the error.
> >
> >They are the thin end of the wedge.
> >
> >Doug
> >
> >Doug Karpa-Wilson
> >1821 S. Maxwell St.
> >Bloomington, IN 47401
> >
> >
>