rubysoho
Aquarium Advice Addict
Do any of you take into consideration the "personality" of the fish when you are breeding like they do with dogs and other animals?
rubysoho said:why not? I would think anyone interested in breeding fish should do the research and breed responsibly... am I asking too much?
I'm not in favour of this selective breeding, because that's how alot of manmade and problem breeds of animals came to light in the first place.
rubysoho said:I'm not in favour of this selective breeding, because that's how alot of manmade and problem breeds of animals came to light in the first place.
I believe a lot of those problems came from irresponsible breeding because people would breed females to their uncles. With fish it is much worse in my opinion because from what I've read, most breeders will breed up to 6 generations within the family for color and other "desirable" traits.
Jchillin, I understand what you are talking about now. Wish I had those resources. I know when I am able to get serious in breeding rams I'll be trying to increase the genepool and having healthy/strong rams rather than breeding brothers and sisters for color.