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Hello everyone , I have been researching diffrent breeding and came across this article and wanted to post it for all as I have read in many threads / posts about the topic and thought it would be helpfull to those starting out with breeding .
The breeding process used to produce a ''pure'' strain of fish is kown as inbreeding. After the first fry / brood is raised , pick a healthy male and breed him back to his mother . From the next generation , select the best quality grandson ( the one thaty displays the characteristics you want ) and breed him back to his grandmother . Keep repeating this process for successive generations .This helps to solidify the characteristics you want by keeping unwanted traits out . This is perfectly normal as fish are concerned, because they would breed with each other anyway you are just pairing them up for the best traits .
As each new brood is born , check for males with unique charactristics that you want to continue on with . When your original mother / grandmothers that you started with finally pass on select a healthy daughter and continue on . This method of inbreeing is more effective than linebreeding , wich involves mating half brother and sisters . As this form of breeding is shown to produce weaker fry and disformed .
Inbreeding in mammels causes genetic defects , and many people find it a distasteful topic generally . However , in fish it happens all the time . Sometimes survival depends on it . In my opinion from what I've read inbreeding should not be looked on in the same way with fish as it is with higher mammels . If possible the inbreeding may even help to strengthen a line of species where linebreeding may and will have a completely diffrent out come. Line breeding will weaken a strain and hurt a species , this is very wrong , especially when it is done puerly for humans profite..
I hope this helps to answer questions some may have about this form of breeding .
The breeding process used to produce a ''pure'' strain of fish is kown as inbreeding. After the first fry / brood is raised , pick a healthy male and breed him back to his mother . From the next generation , select the best quality grandson ( the one thaty displays the characteristics you want ) and breed him back to his grandmother . Keep repeating this process for successive generations .This helps to solidify the characteristics you want by keeping unwanted traits out . This is perfectly normal as fish are concerned, because they would breed with each other anyway you are just pairing them up for the best traits .
As each new brood is born , check for males with unique charactristics that you want to continue on with . When your original mother / grandmothers that you started with finally pass on select a healthy daughter and continue on . This method of inbreeing is more effective than linebreeding , wich involves mating half brother and sisters . As this form of breeding is shown to produce weaker fry and disformed .
Inbreeding in mammels causes genetic defects , and many people find it a distasteful topic generally . However , in fish it happens all the time . Sometimes survival depends on it . In my opinion from what I've read inbreeding should not be looked on in the same way with fish as it is with higher mammels . If possible the inbreeding may even help to strengthen a line of species where linebreeding may and will have a completely diffrent out come. Line breeding will weaken a strain and hurt a species , this is very wrong , especially when it is done puerly for humans profite..
I hope this helps to answer questions some may have about this form of breeding .
