> 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.
> if two crosses look like one species and are sterile. wouldn't it be better
> to keep the natural type form thats able to BREED.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I like my O-natural boesemani a lot more than my
incisus x trifasciatia. And my lacustris... well they are in a class of
their own.
> I'm still scratching my head as to how incisus/trifasciata look like a
> Boesemani
> as in original post.???????
The fish pictured in the previous posts
(http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/red_boesemani.JPEG) is
identical to the fish I have. The trifasciata trait is there and the
brilliant red can only come from incisus. The boesemani name is
attached to anything as its the rainbow we all know. My lacustris
were bought as blue boesmani (as it was advertised on the dealers
lists).
> 4cm ~~ Glossolepis incisus X Melanotaenia boesemani ~~~~~~ Red Blue
> Rainbow (sterile crossbreed)
Sure fine, but the fish I saw had a black lateral stripe which did not come
from iether of the above parents. Then again if you cross fish you never
know what you will get.
Bye
Tyrone Genade
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http://www.geocities.com/tyronegenade
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