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Cross breeding Lake Malawi Cichlids
By: wade997 Date: September 8, 2015, 4:33 pm
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I am trying to breed Cichlids as a test run for a biology
project that relates these fish to Darwin's finches. I picked up
a Livingstonii and a Yellow Lab, I'm not sure if they will
breed. I'm not trying to produce a new specie of any type I'm
just doing a test run and I'm curious if they will breed
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Re: Cross breeding Lake Malawi Cichlids
By: Webman27 Date: September 9, 2015, 11:40 am
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I wouldn't think so as they are completely different species.
You would have a higher chance at cross breading if you stuck to
Mbuna that look similar or Peacocks. I don't have any
experience in this but based on what I have read I doubt they
would even try to cross breed
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Re: Cross breeding Lake Malawi Cichlids
By: GaryJewett Date: September 9, 2015, 12:21 pm
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I have a yellow lab that cross bred with a blue zebra and the
suviving fish looks like an exasperatus (was yellow when small
and now bluish grey) , and I have a lone female Kenyi that mated
while we were out in the pool and Ive seen a couple dark blue
babies in the rocks. The current theory is that all Malawi
cichlids started from one species and they evolved over
millenium into mbuna, haps and peacocks.
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Re: Cross breeding Lake Malawi Cichlids
By: wade997 Date: September 9, 2015, 4:06 pm
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Thank you for the help! I will try and get a few more yellow
labs and try to get a different specie of mbuna if the hap
cannot/won't mate with her. Are there suggestions for what two
species are most likely to mate?
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