killiguy Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 I was given some of these fish last week,a fish I thought Id never see.Ive been watching discussion about them in TFH magazine for about 10 years. What Ive figured out so far is: The electric blue gene is recessive but electric females dont lay viable eggs so a homozygous (2 EB genes the same)male has to be bred with a normal looking but heterozygous (normal gene plus electric gene)female.That will produce 50% EB 50% normal . I have a dozen or so of his fry(from a normal female) which are all heterozygous.The male below is quite old but I hope to breed him with one of his normal looking daughters. Has anyone bred these things?any tips?? Crappy pictures but you get the idea --extraordinary blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intern1 Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Stunning fish to bad it's a hybrid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daci Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 you sure hybrid man? nice fish killi sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiguy Posted September 14, 2011 Author Share Posted September 14, 2011 you sure hybrid man? nice fish killi sir! Alot of discussion around 2002 centered around its origin,hybrid vs mutation.It had DNA testing done(reported in TFH in 2002) which found it to be all Jack Dempsey The fact if you cross an electric male with a normal female and get all completely normal Dempseys is also evidence of this(confirming recessive inheritance) I must say its not really my cup of tea,abit of a Frankenfish,but I never look a gift horse in the mouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E4G13M4N Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 They are not hybrids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattrox Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 On forums we really have to be so careful what fish we call hybrids. AQIS monitors forums, when there is enough speculation about a fish being a hybrid they stop it entering the country. And this is too bad because this weakens the hobby as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelbBill Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 They were suiccessfully bred bya Melbourne lFS several years ago and distributed round the hobby to dedicated breeders. They are a relatively easy fish to breed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E4G13M4N Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Compared to the normals they grow much slower, which puts a lot of breeders off raising them from what i have heard as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishmad1978 Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 look at the colour on that fish yes very slow growing fish and a little bit different head shape to the normal JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiguy Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 look at the colour on that fish yes very slow growing fish and a little bit different head shape to the normal JD The male seems very placid for such a big fish,he's in with quite a small female and she rules the roost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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