About hybridization
Posted: 06 Mar 2021, 20:39
Hi everyone;
I have a tank that contains 9 trilianus and 10 sterbai. These guys were tiny when I bought them but I am happy to say that they have grown really big and healthy and full. This morning I noticed they ere very frisky and I see the trilianus doing their active courtship and the sterbai were too. It became a mess though I do notice the fish try to stay within their own species. I found a bunch of eggs and I collected them. My question is that, given these two both belong to lineage 9, are the chances of these eggs being hybrid really great even when I see they attempting to stay within their own ? If so should I just destroy the eggs and not bother hatching them? Should I separate these two groups and maybe move the trilianus with my eques and leave the sterbai by themselves, given trilianus and eques are not of the same lineage? Thank you mike
I have a tank that contains 9 trilianus and 10 sterbai. These guys were tiny when I bought them but I am happy to say that they have grown really big and healthy and full. This morning I noticed they ere very frisky and I see the trilianus doing their active courtship and the sterbai were too. It became a mess though I do notice the fish try to stay within their own species. I found a bunch of eggs and I collected them. My question is that, given these two both belong to lineage 9, are the chances of these eggs being hybrid really great even when I see they attempting to stay within their own ? If so should I just destroy the eggs and not bother hatching them? Should I separate these two groups and maybe move the trilianus with my eques and leave the sterbai by themselves, given trilianus and eques are not of the same lineage? Thank you mike