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Green sunfish crossed with largemouth bass


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Posted 21 February 2008 - 09:59 PM

Hey.....what happened to the thread that used to top of this thread? You know double green/warmouth hybrids but it just disappeared. I don't see what's problem with it. Its get very interesting...

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 11:18 PM

Crappiexgreen
large or smbxgreen
crappiexbass

all would make very interesting hybrids for sportfishing, especially given the greensunfishes ferocity.

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Posted 29 February 2008 - 02:53 AM

That link is awesome. I have heard about the "laboratory" produced bass X sunfish etc. hybrids, but never seen pictures.

It seems those pictures were of larger fish that survived hatching and growing, even more interesting. I have hybridized sunfish on purpose and accident, but closer related Lepomis, never inter-genus hybrids.

Since in the wild I find hybrid Lepomis regularly, and other sunfish species are common, but never found cross genus hybrids, I guess that this just does not work in natural set ups. I have only caught one whacky sunfish, and no explanation for it. Looked mostly like a green warmouth hybrid ( big mouth, 'bass' like shape, lots of blue and red color) but it had four anal spines. Somewhere after it died prematurely I did a sketch and count of scales, fin rays and all that, along with a sketch of its guts. Just in case someday, where those sketches are, is anyones guess.

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Posted 29 February 2008 - 08:58 PM

I'd like to take a female green bass and cross it with my male warmouth

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Posted 29 February 2008 - 10:25 PM

Hmm. I wondering what the results looks like if you cross with these species:

Largemouth bass x Orangespotted sunfish

LM bass x Pumpkinseed

LM bass x Giant hybrid bream

LM bass x dollar sunfish

LM bass x Longear sunfish

Rock bass x sunfish

Crappie x bass or was a sunfish?

I hope LM bass x Dollar sunfish results looks like a mini bass with bright colors and you can possible keep this hybrid in small aquarium instead of these tankbuster bass.

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Posted 29 February 2008 - 10:44 PM

Redeye bass x shadow bass

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Posted 01 March 2008 - 09:34 AM

These crosses you guys are mentioning would be very intersting, but I suspect many as written where the resulting hybrid is half of each parental species has very low viability even though photographs are presented as evidence. The hybrids look too much like the mother. Some similar hybrids I have made have very low viability when an egg is simply fertilized with the sperm from another genus and sometime even the sperm donor is referred to as another species within the same genus (maybe our classifications to genus not always reflecting how closely or distantly a group critters are to each other). A big part of this viability problem goes away if the genetic complemment from the mother is doubled producing a triploid hybrid. The triploid hybrid definantly favors the mother's appearance.




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