Excellent post and appreciate you for sharing this vast knowledge with us. Wish this thread could be a sticky post.
My personal revision and guide of Polypterus delhezi keeping.
- Thread starter giseok jung
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Quick view about how the patterns of Polypterus delhezi inheritate for 2 generations based on my "Wild Cross strain".
This strain contain both WC and Indonesian CB bloods and now it's second generation. (F2)
See how their pattern change after generations.
I also have Pure Wild strains and I'll share about them next time.
No.1 Female, Indonesian CB
No.2 Male, WC D.R.Congo
No.3, Offspring of No.1 and No.2. female fish
No.4, Male another WC from D.R.Congo.
3 months old F2 generation fish, Offspring of No.3 and No.4.
This strain contain both WC and Indonesian CB bloods and now it's second generation. (F2)
See how their pattern change after generations.
I also have Pure Wild strains and I'll share about them next time.
No.1 Female, Indonesian CB
No.2 Male, WC D.R.Congo
No.3, Offspring of No.1 and No.2. female fish
No.4, Male another WC from D.R.Congo.
3 months old F2 generation fish, Offspring of No.3 and No.4.
After 4 years since my last spawn of WC delhezi pair, I finally became able to get spawn from selected WC delhezi pair again.
I'm looking forward how different their pattern will be with my last Wild pair breeding and my "Wild Cross" strain.
I selected these 3 specimens of "Wild Cross Strain" for next generations.
It's always interesting to watch how their pattern evolve after generations.
These are very good example of how important strain selection is when you breed Polypterus species (Actually in all other fish too).
The first three photographs are Pure Wild strain F2 (WC*(WC*WC)) and last 3 are Wild Cross strain F2 (WC*(WC*Indo CB)).
You can easily see how diverse their patterns are in pure wild strain and how stable it is wild cross strain.
Even after 2 generations of cross breed with wild specimen (which has maximum genetic diversity) stablized genetics by inbreed from Indonesian CB strain still effect and make their pattern expression stable enough.
In the other hand, pure wilds strain all very different patterns with each others (they're only 4 specimen in that batch and there are 3 of them on the photo).
This mean if you want stable, fairly good quality, inbred strain can be a very reasonable choice for breeding project, but if you want to breed something totaly new, inbred strain will be like a curse to you and can give unbreakalbe barrior (or at least will take very long time to break) to your strain.
But wild specimens can be so unstable so there are no promise of basic quality, but if you can select and handle them good enough, you will get endless possibilities and borderless diversity for something no one ever seen before.
These are the reason why I keep seperate those two strains of delhezi for different goal and I think this can be helpful info too for someone trying to build up their own breeding strains.
In the other hand, pure wilds strain all very different patterns with each others (they're only 4 specimen in that batch and there are 3 of them on the photo).
This mean if you want stable, fairly good quality, inbred strain can be a very reasonable choice for breeding project, but if you want to breed something totaly new, inbred strain will be like a curse to you and can give unbreakalbe barrior (or at least will take very long time to break) to your strain.
But wild specimens can be so unstable so there are no promise of basic quality, but if you can select and handle them good enough, you will get endless possibilities and borderless diversity for something no one ever seen before.
These are the reason why I keep seperate those two strains of delhezi for different goal and I think this can be helpful info too for someone trying to build up their own breeding strains.
