What Apisto's do we have here in Nz?

[ryanjury]

Great to hear P44!. Can you tell me if offspring can be bred with offspring? Or is this a big no no!

It is debatable in fish, someone once put it "it is called line breeding when it goes well and inbreeding when it goes bad". You are never going to get any better fish if you keep breeding within the same gene pool, and it can eventually cause issues. No doubt 99% of the fish we get in NZ have been inbred for many generations most fish farms overseas wont really care about inbreeding or any of that (until it results in less fish being produced or getting to sellable size). I would continue to breed but if you are noticing large numbers of deformed fry or things going wrong/really weak fish or anything like that then it would be time to investigate or try and find new blood. There was a perfect female here that was double red x wild that would be brilliant for introducing new blood into this line.

[supasi]

Also, remember in the wild there is often geographical isolation in some environments. This means some fish have no choice. Take killis for example. How many seasons have the same genes been passed through due to the fact that they are living in pools that dry up during summer.

As Ryan stated, we dont really have too much choice in NZ with Apistos. Most that come in come on the same shipment from the same hatchery and likely the same parents. I say with Apistos just make do with what you have and breed them. If opportunity arrives to add new genes then by all mans take it, but sometimes beggers cant be choosers.

[danval]

Thanks for your replies guys... On a different subject, I counted about 40 double red fry all growing well!

[Joshlikesfish]

Yeah, I think i have seen the result of interbreeding at work! ....

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[ryanjury]

Thanks for your replies guys... On a different subject, I counted about 40 double red fry all growing well!

Well done that is an awesome batch size for your first go!

[danval]

Thanks Ryan

[Bilbo]

Just caught up with this.

I counted about 40 double red fry all growing well!

That is awsome news. Best of luck that sounds like you are doing a great job.

[danval]

Thanks Bilbo!. I have only got this far through sifting through old posts from the likes of yourself, Caserole, Hans to name a few... Of recent, Ryanjury and P44 have been so helpfull! . Still a way to go but hopefully we can get the double reds and other species "out there".

[land_lubber]

Good work