If you liked my previous post, your gonna hate this one, or maybe not.
What I posted above is based on the only plausible means according to all I had ever been taught about hybridizing in genetics to include study of a hybrid white bass introduced into Texas lakes in the late 70s and early 80s which at first introduction was sterile by all counts.
The narrow time line of "discoveries" or developement of the electric blue ram & acara, along with gene splicing being admitted for flourescent colors of danios and white skirt tetras has not helped the argument whatsoever.
As of a bit over a year ago, when I acquired my pair of EBJD and searched to the best of my abilities throughout the internet, the only thing I found was argument after argument filled with allegations and speculations.
I fell back onto what I had been taught, and though a viable method, it is also an extensively time consuming and exceedingly difficult approach to cross species color gene transfer.
Prompted by Aquanero's adamant reply, I began a new search adding a que which was not in my previous searches... to wit: "sterility in female electric blue jack dempseys".
Thank you Aquanero... I struck gold... I believe this is a near absolute be all end all to the argument and it appeared on a site I had previously seen many times but they have since expounded on it with the release of the DNA TESTS.
http:/dempsey.fr.yuku.com/topic/3/The-origins-of-Electric-Blue-Jack-Dempsey
And if admin desires to do so, they may freely delete my previous post without any qualms from me, or simply leave it to show some of the basis for why this argument has been so two sidedly entrenched.
Again Aquanero, thank you.
What I posted above is based on the only plausible means according to all I had ever been taught about hybridizing in genetics to include study of a hybrid white bass introduced into Texas lakes in the late 70s and early 80s which at first introduction was sterile by all counts.
The narrow time line of "discoveries" or developement of the electric blue ram & acara, along with gene splicing being admitted for flourescent colors of danios and white skirt tetras has not helped the argument whatsoever.
As of a bit over a year ago, when I acquired my pair of EBJD and searched to the best of my abilities throughout the internet, the only thing I found was argument after argument filled with allegations and speculations.
I fell back onto what I had been taught, and though a viable method, it is also an extensively time consuming and exceedingly difficult approach to cross species color gene transfer.
Prompted by Aquanero's adamant reply, I began a new search adding a que which was not in my previous searches... to wit: "sterility in female electric blue jack dempseys".
Thank you Aquanero... I struck gold... I believe this is a near absolute be all end all to the argument and it appeared on a site I had previously seen many times but they have since expounded on it with the release of the DNA TESTS.
http:/dempsey.fr.yuku.com/topic/3/The-origins-of-Electric-Blue-Jack-Dempsey
And if admin desires to do so, they may freely delete my previous post without any qualms from me, or simply leave it to show some of the basis for why this argument has been so two sidedly entrenched.
Again Aquanero, thank you.
Wish my fish had red hair
