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Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of a project called the Krib Project and what ever came of it... This is the article I came across last night while doing some research on a project it is pretty interesting.
There are a group of people around Australia who visit my dwarf
cichlid discussion forum and are about to embark on a project called the Krib
project. In this project we are going to try and undertake a breeding
project to try and improve the vigour and colour of a bread and butter
species like the kribensis ( our subject ). We would select krib pairs and
breed them selecting the most colourful and hardy individuals to breed from,
culling the rest and swapping the best of the spawn with the other breeders
around the country ( frieght around Australia is cheap and quick ). At the
moment we are gathering information about inheritance patterns in kribensis.
The kind of things we are seeking is which features of krib are inheritable
traits and which are environmentally influenced traits. Traits like vigour
I don't know whether anyone has noticed but male krib seem to die a lot
just after spawning and are less vigourous than they were say 10 years
ago ), number of ocelli on the tail and dorsal, and intensity of the red on
the bellies of both males and females, the extent of the red on the belly of
the female, the mothering instinct of female krib and the defensive nature
of male krib, are examples of traits we'd like to improve but this is
pointless if we don't know how these traits are inherited. Ultimately we'd
like to tackle one of these traits at a time ( no point trying to improve
all of them at once ) and then breed the improved strains and release them
to pet stores around the country. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
On a related matter - my albino krib pair have recently spawned and have produced about 50 fry, half of which seem to be albino and the other half seem to have the wild type phenotype. Since then I have found
out that albinism in albino krib is a codominant gene. If wild type fry are
produced does this mean they don't carry the albino gene at all
( homozygous ) or aren't my krib parents real albinos ( the male has black
eye spots on his tail and dorsal, not colourless white ones ) ?
Regards,
Simon Voorwinde
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[email protected]
http://thecichlidtank.cjb.net
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There are a group of people around Australia who visit my dwarf
cichlid discussion forum and are about to embark on a project called the Krib
project. In this project we are going to try and undertake a breeding
project to try and improve the vigour and colour of a bread and butter
species like the kribensis ( our subject ). We would select krib pairs and
breed them selecting the most colourful and hardy individuals to breed from,
culling the rest and swapping the best of the spawn with the other breeders
around the country ( frieght around Australia is cheap and quick ). At the
moment we are gathering information about inheritance patterns in kribensis.
The kind of things we are seeking is which features of krib are inheritable
traits and which are environmentally influenced traits. Traits like vigour
I don't know whether anyone has noticed but male krib seem to die a lot
just after spawning and are less vigourous than they were say 10 years
ago ), number of ocelli on the tail and dorsal, and intensity of the red on
the bellies of both males and females, the extent of the red on the belly of
the female, the mothering instinct of female krib and the defensive nature
of male krib, are examples of traits we'd like to improve but this is
pointless if we don't know how these traits are inherited. Ultimately we'd
like to tackle one of these traits at a time ( no point trying to improve
all of them at once ) and then breed the improved strains and release them
to pet stores around the country. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
On a related matter - my albino krib pair have recently spawned and have produced about 50 fry, half of which seem to be albino and the other half seem to have the wild type phenotype. Since then I have found
out that albinism in albino krib is a codominant gene. If wild type fry are
produced does this mean they don't carry the albino gene at all
( homozygous ) or aren't my krib parents real albinos ( the male has black
eye spots on his tail and dorsal, not colourless white ones ) ?
Regards,
Simon Voorwinde
=========================================================
[email protected]
http://thecichlidtank.cjb.net
=========================================================