-----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
>
>