Hybrids

[david27]

There have been lots of threads on hybrids and it always difficult to judge what people really think about these fish.

It will be interesting to see the result's.

If you choose other I would be grateful if you would post an objective answer and would ask that if you don't agree with other peoples answers not to attack their opinions. The purpose of this poll is to find members feelings on this subject not a discussion.

David

Ps this is my first poll lets hope it works

 

[Auratus]

As long as it doesn't hurt or impare the fish I don't care.

Like parrot fish can't close their mouths but it hasn't seemed to impare their eating habits, movement, etc. So it's okay.

I think it's cool to get new species, but don't make them breed if they don't want to. Don't go in a lab and put this fishes sperm in a different fishes eggs. If they want to breed they will. I think it's kind of like a dog. peekapoo = poodle and cockapoo. Nothing wrong with that. As long as there isn't a long line of inbreeding and the fish/dog has no health problems, cool.

I owned a parrot fish for a few weeks but my other fish were to aggro. While I had him I enjoyed him very much! He was soooo cute. some people say they are horrible fish but have never had one. I don't think you should judge a fish and say that it is disabled or mutated if you haven't had one to see it's habits.

 

[Missy]

I agree with Auratus. If the fish hasn't been harmed or dyed or whatever and lives comfortably and happily I have no problem with hybrids

 

[White Whale]

Other: depends what the rusult is

 

[thecichlidaddict]

Ok, I wasn't going to comment on this one, since I've already had my say in the other thread, but I need to comment on this.

As long as it doesn't hurt or impare the fish I don't care

Straight Hybridding (probably a new word) may not harm the fish directly, but it harms the entire hobby as a whole. Impure strains will gradually infect the hobby to the point that it becomes difficult to find pure ones. Stores who don't care pass off hybrids as real species and charge full price for them. It's sad. Go on, keep not caring, but the hobby will suffer for it in the long run.

The best example I could come up with is the Discus. There are so many fake morphs of this fish that it is very difficult to find the original pure strain, and when you do find it you sure pay for it. Too bad, because people like me only want the pure strains. Now discus aren't even an option for me.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Ok, I wasn't going to comment on this one, since I've already had my say in the other thread, but I need to comment on this.

As long as it doesn't hurt or impare the fish I don't care

Straight Hybridding (probably a new word) may not harm the fish directly, but it harms the entire hobby as a whole. Impure strains will gradually infect the hobby to the point that it becomes difficult to find pure ones. Stores who don't care pass off hybrids as real species and charge full price for them. It's sad. Go on, keep not caring, but the hobby will suffer for it in the long run.

The best example I could come up with is the Discus. There are so many fake morphs of this fish that it is very difficult to find the original pure strain, and when you do find it you sure pay for it. Too bad, because people like me only want the pure strains. Now discus aren't even an option for me.

I presume you didn't even read this

if you don't agree with other peoples answers not to attack their opinions.

I think that as long as it doesn't harm or impair the fish (not the hobby). It's the same as with line-bred fish, as these fish would not exist if it didn't happen and neither would dogs and so on. It's how animals become domestic, I just hope that the original can also exist.

 

[Kossy]

I think that you shouldn't cross-breed fish because like said...pet shop owners may be greedy business men...but as long as its 100% sure that the fish doesn't get harmed in any way and looks nice (And doesn't get sold for the pure breed price)

 

[FrankSlapperinni]

Like parrot fish can't close their mouths but it hasn't seemed to impare their eating habits, movement, etc. So it's okay.

And I'm sure they LOVE having their spines kinked.
I agree with CichlidAddict, Hybrids screw everything up only to satisfy greedy people and unimaginative buyers.
I read that they are now releasing flowerhorns ( a hybrid fish) into the rivers because they are now becoming unpopular, if blood parrots became unpopular, how would you feel if they were dumped into the rivers to die? I think this is a much less cruel fate than to just kill them all now.

 

[Lateral Line]

>>> It's the same as with line-bred fish,

No, it isn't. Line breeding members of the same species is totally different from producing inter species, or inter generic hybrids.

 

[snotirl]

Theres nothing wrong with hybrids

 

[Auratus]

Well, I doubt parrot fish would servive in the kind of conditions in most states.

So, if you want to kill them so bad (inhumane) go to the fish store and buy them all and kill them.

The fish didn't choose to be made that way so you shouldn't punish the fish, punish the people. The fish doesn't understand that it is hybrid it just thinks it's a fish.

 

[FrankSlapperinni]

By the time parrotfish (or any other hybrid) become "untrendy", the damage will be already done, and there will be even more of them to "deal with" than if we just got rid of them now. It may sound cruel now but they will suffer less for it in the long run.

 

[New Boy]

Dyed fish - I'm against them big time

Hybrids - I can't understand what the fuss about. Most people seem to be of the opinion that hybrid fish are infertile therefore they can't interbreed with other fish and 'dilute' the real species as people keep saying......if parrots get introduced into the wild they can't breed so therefore can't 'wipe out a whole lake's ecosystem' as has been claimed on another thread.

If you don't like them don't buy them, the only people that will buy them either don't know much about fishkeeping (ignorance is bliss) or know about them but still like them. Those people who are concerned about dilution of fish should still easily be able to tell the true fish from the hybrids at the lfs (if they can't they just need to research more).

Don't mean to offend anyone or start a huge debate, just my two cents

ps Are people seriously talking of killing hundreds or thousands of innocent fish? Bit drastic. If you feel this strongly about it I wonder if you have written to your local fish store or asked them to write to their suppliers to ask them to cease trading these fish? My lfs has stopped trading dyed fish due to customer power (including a letter that I wrote them), I think this is more pro-active than talking about killing thousands of fish on a website personnally.

 

[andyt_uk]

it is too general a question, there are many forms of hybrid, and many levels at which the term is used.
the list would be endless as to which 'hybrid' was ok and which wasnt

as i have just stated in another thread

there is a fine line that needs to be drawn, but where, and by whom?

 

[Landlocked]

I think that hybrids are ok as long as they don't hurt the fish or shorten its life. I disagree with dyeing, though. However, so long as it doesn't really hurt the fish, what's the problem with it? If you don't like it, just don't buy the fish.