Re: Pelvicachromis species

[Bill Phillips <WilliamPhillips2@access.net.au>]

Hi

In my experience the various species of krib will not interbreed and I have
found that even locality types of kribs will not interbreed - however this
does not say that I have been very lucky in my experiences.

It is horrible that quite a number of LFS will just mix pelvicachromis
species together which makes it difficult separating the species let alone
the at least 10 known morphs of taeniatus.

I would suggest you find a LFS who is willing to separate each "species" of
krib that are available. Given the recent availability of "wild caught
fish" and "imported F1 strains" now available even in Australia I think the
chances of inbreeding and genetic defects has diminished to some extent.

Personally I would be more likely to pick one sub-adult male and one
sub-adult female from a stock tank and put them together in a heavily
planted two foot tank with several hiding places together with a few neons
and nurture them carefully as they are shy fish. Once the female is very
content with her environment, she will then initiate a mating ritual.

Good luck with the Prince of Cichlids

Bill Phillips

At 06:34 PM 5/9/00 PDT, you wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>
>I wanted to pick out 6 kribs and hopefully they'll pair off and I would get 
>a breeding pair.. so to avoid inbreeding I went to a few stores to pick 1 or 
>2 young kribs frm each stores... but then I've noticed in each store I 
>believe they just use common names for all the Pelvicachromis species, some 
>are called 'wild' 'yellow' 'golden' and others, i haven't picked them out 
>yet but what would happen if i picked say females and males of different 
>species of pelvicachromis for example Pelvicachromis taeniatus and 
>Pelvicachromis subocellatus or whatever the other ones are out there.. what 
>will happen? will they breed and are their eggs going to be fertile or their 
>fry infertile? or should I just pick 6 from the same tank instead?\
>when they're all young they all look the same to me.. or are they all the 
>same!??!
>
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