[Killietalk] Hybrids

["Hillbillynursery" <hillbillynursery at charter_net>]

    I hope I get no flames as I am so new to this. I understand preserving 
the fish as the naturally are, but why such a fuss about hybrids. Hybred 
could get a more eye appealing fish for sale to the masses. The 
lyretail(aussies I thing from memory) have been bred for so long in tanks 
that there are several colors. I used to raise platies, guppies, mollies and 
swordtails. Breeder of the wagtail swords cross the wagtail plattie to the 
red velvet sword to make wagtail platies. I made a sunburt sword which was 
an odd color for swords so they sold well. I guess what I am wanting to know 
is why does the AKA care if I make a sterile hybred as this was listed as 
one of their concerns?

   I have seen F1 and such given in the describtion of the killie fish. F1 
stands for the offspring of a hybred crossing in plant breeding so are these 
hybreds that are being offered?

  When you select which male and female to use you are selectively breeding 
them away from what nature intended. Since these fish are not to be used to 
restock the native area why would crossing fish caught in different locals 
that are the same strain hurt?  From breeding of animals, fish and plants I 
have done you will get inbreeding problems sooner or later on a closed 
system like breeding siblings together year after year.

This has nothing to do with hybreds but has been picking at my brain ever 
since reading the annualism post. In nature the nothos can go years without 
water and be completely dried out(or I would thing the moisture level would 
be very low for the soil to crack the way it does).  My thinking has to do 
with preserving certain hatches for long peroids of time. Like if I have 5 
strains and I do not want them all going at once. Another idea was to keep 
some from the first pair to cross to their grandchildren ect. If you reduce 
the moisture enough can you get the eggs to last 3 years like they have to 
do in nature during the 20 year drought. How long has anyone kept the eggs 
and had good hatches?

       Thanks for the replies,
       John Cox
       McMinnville TN



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