I disagree with your interpretation.
The desired characteristic being selected for can be "true to form".
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Posted 02 December 2016 - 12:38 PM
Chris your confusing selective line breeding true to type fish with selective line breeding for mutated fish and deformity. I was meaning as what happens in nature, the biggest most vibrant healthy specimen. We have a responsibility as fish keepers to not breed from CRAP other wise we are only hurting ourselves.
Posted 03 December 2016 - 09:14 AM
Posted 03 December 2016 - 10:52 AM
Chris your confusing selective line breeding true to type fish with selective line breeding for mutated fish and deformity. I was meaning as what happens in nature, the biggest most vibrant healthy specimen. We have a responsibility as fish keepers to not breed from CRAP other wise we are only hurting ourselves.
Posted 03 December 2016 - 05:49 PM
Edited by Hood, 03 December 2016 - 05:50 PM.
Posted 03 December 2016 - 10:06 PM
Yep what he said.
Posted 03 December 2016 - 10:50 PM
Posted 03 December 2016 - 11:37 PM
Agreeing to disagree is not the correct course in this situation I feel, as you are imposing opposing opinion or personal agenda onto factual definitions.
Selective breeding is the use of selection alone but not necessarily of the same genetic line of fish, agreed. To do this without it also being line breeding really you would need to be working with wild caught fish, where you would be making the assumption that few of the individuals are actually related.
However with such a select amount of genetics in this country, and that most people just buy from one source when procuring species, you are working within a genetic line, so you are in effect selectively line breeding....and thus my original comment, we are all line breeding. We are just not all necessarily being selective to a high/standardized set of criteria/criterion, thus what some describe as the decline in quality of fish here. However if more active selective line breeding were taking place, you could essentially raise some genetics to a more desirable state.
Edited by Hood, 03 December 2016 - 11:39 PM.
Posted 04 December 2016 - 08:42 AM
Posted 04 December 2016 - 02:02 PM
Guys, guys guys - the definitions are clear - "the selective breeding of animals for a desired feature by mating them within a closely related line." breeding true to form is not a desired feature it is an EXPECTED feature or the norm if you will, because you are not trying to change anything!. I am not disagreeing that we all line breed as a matter of necessity to maintain the species in the hobby -but the fact that there are man made varieties of the same fish (Ancistrus as an example) is deliberate line breeding to achieve a desired result, which is to change from the original Agree or not?
Based on the assumption that you agree is it correct then to refer to Lemon bn, longfin bn albino bn etc as linebred? or should we refer to them selectively bred?
It therefore follows that if I find the best male dovii in wa and the best female dovii in eastern states and breed them with the Expected outcome/features that they will be normal dovii are they line bred or selectively bred
I say selectively bred because 1) you are not wanting to change anything 2) you are maintaining the strain as it is. That is why breeders like my self and you guys try and source stock from different lines to try and breed true to type. Correct?
Sandgroper unfortunately your comment that I am "confusing selective line breeding true to type fish with selective line breeding for mutated fish and deformity" is a contradiction selective breeding and line breeding are two separate things - selective breeding does not necessarily involve breeding back to close family lines and selective breeding is ideally done from different lines.
If you disagree with that then there is no point in having a definition for line breeding - everything would be selective.
And Hood you comment "However with such a select amount of genetics in this country, and that most people just buy from one source when procuring species, you are working within a genetic line so you are in effect selectively line breeding....and thus my original comment, we are all line breeding." is correct but by circumstance not selectively or for the the purpose of trying to achieve a desired feature, hence technically NOT linebreeding. As I said above we would all love to be able to source our stock from different line to maintain a true representation of the fish we breed. Again the definitions are clear, and they are not mine - I just don't feel the need to contradict them.
And finally are Ancistrus varieties linebred or selectively bred? or better still how did they come about a) from different lines or back breeding to the same line.?
Posted 04 December 2016 - 09:03 PM
Guys, guys guys - the definitions are clear - "the selective breeding of animals for a desired feature by mating them within a closely related line." breeding true to form is not a desired feature it is an EXPECTED feature or the norm if you will, because you are not trying to change anything!. I am not disagreeing that we all line breed as a matter of necessity to maintain the species in the hobby -but the fact that there are man made varieties of the same fish (Ancistrus as an example) is deliberate line breeding to achieve a desired result, which is to change from the original Agree or not?
Based on the assumption that you agree is it correct then to refer to Lemon bn, longfin bn albino bn etc as linebred? or should we refer to them selectively bred?
It therefore follows that if I find the best male dovii in wa and the best female dovii in eastern states and breed them with the Expected outcome/features that they will be normal dovii are they line bred or selectively bred
I say selectively bred because 1) you are not wanting to change anything 2) you are maintaining the strain as it is. That is why breeders like my self and you guys try and source stock from different lines to try and breed true to type. Correct?
Sandgroper unfortunately your comment that I am "confusing selective line breeding true to type fish with selective line breeding for mutated fish and deformity" is a contradiction selective breeding and line breeding are two separate things - selective breeding does not necessarily involve breeding back to close family lines and selective breeding is ideally done from different lines.
If you disagree with that then there is no point in having a definition for line breeding - everything would be selective.
And Hood you comment "However with such a select amount of genetics in this country, and that most people just buy from one source when procuring species, you are working within a genetic line so you are in effect selectively line breeding....and thus my original comment, we are all line breeding." is correct but by circumstance not selectively or for the the purpose of trying to achieve a desired feature, hence technically NOT linebreeding. As I said above we would all love to be able to source our stock from different line to maintain a true representation of the fish we breed. Again the definitions are clear, and they are not mine - I just don't feel the need to contradict them.
And finally are Ancistrus varieties linebred or selectively bred? or better still how did they come about a) from different lines or
back breeding to the same line.?
Posted 05 December 2016 - 07:32 AM
We are all aware of the constraints of the hobby in Australia in regard to obtaining quality stock from different lines, that is not the point of this discussion. You are right the definitions do not say "to change" nor does it say "selective line breeding" however it is my understanding, that to achieve a desired feature, change is implied. On one hand all you are telling me is that you believe there is absolutely no difference between selective breeding and line breeding and should be all "selective line breeding" (The literature would appear to disagree with you.) yet on the other " Selection during the breeding process is selection, and breeding along a line of genetics is line breeding. The two are exclusive of each other but not necessarily mutually so." you appear to be agreeing with me that they are different?
Your comment "Back breeding is a tool of line breeding" - actually Back breeding IS line breeding. My bad as to my last statement "And finally are Ancistrus varieties linebred or selectively bred? or better still how did they come about a) from different lines or back breeding to the same line.?" This was a rhetorical question and I was not intending to take this discussion down the line of genetic mutations with a full on discussion about 'alleles' and 'homozygotes'. Your overall comment though in answer to that question would indicate that you acknowledge that there is a difference between selective and line breeding and involves change .
This is both selective and line breeding to achieve a desired outcome which is different to the naturally occurring variant.
This still has no bearing on whether these same tools can be used to maintain or improve the quality of what is deemed to be true to type.
In my view ancistrus varieties, along with numerous other fish varieties, discus, angels on so on which are generally a result of initial line breeding to achieve a desired characteristic should be referred to as Linebred. This will ensure a distinction from the naturally occurring form and take the guess work out of it for the novice? As I hope to be up for the meeting on Tuesday we can continue the discussion then. Even better still this could be an issue for the committee to take up to establish a code if you will as to what may or may not be referred to as line bred, hybrid etc I see there was a list of hybrids listed previously and maybe this could be updated to include line bred varieties as well.
Posted 05 December 2016 - 09:37 AM
Edited by Hood, 05 December 2016 - 11:05 AM.
Posted 05 December 2016 - 04:00 PM
Yes there is 'selective breeding' and there is 'line breeding' but not 'selective line breeding' - it is one or the other - line breeding by definition is breeding within a line to achieve a desired outcome, it is not open to discussion, it is defined - There is no definition for 'selective line breeding' only selective breeding and line breeding. if you choose to impose your interpretation by adding the word selective to everything to do with Line breeding so be it - It doesn't change the fact that the ancistrus varieties referred to many times above , as well as pretty well every other man made variety is as a result of line breeding. If it was selective breeding we would be destroying the deformities and mutations. And yes again - line breeding does happen regularly in Australia by necessity and or ignorance to maintain the species but not with the intent of changing anything and if in that process we get a variant we destroy it - wow is that selective breeding or what.
Back crossing is a tool of selective line/line breeding, as is sibling
And again back crossing is not a tool it IS line breeding.
No they should be classed as not true to naturally occurring type, or ornamental aquarium strain. Line/selective/selective line breeding is a technique/something you do/something that is done, not a classification.
Finally, linebreeding is the noun and linebred is the adjective, and is therefore an appropriate descriptive word also it is a little less chunky, but I'll go with 'ornamental aquarium strain" all we need to do now is educate all the shops.
Anyway I'm going to let someone else have a go - I'm sure there are many more opinions out there other than yours or mine.
Posted 05 December 2016 - 04:56 PM
Edited by Hood, 05 December 2016 - 04:57 PM.
Posted 06 December 2016 - 06:20 AM
Just read you response and unfortunately I can not let it go unanswered - you are sounding like my ex-wife - always had to have the last word with a twist LOL I did NOT decide to use the descriptor "ornamental aquarium strain" I said "I'll go with 'ornamental aquarium strain" it is your descriptor and your decision to use it. However in view of your additional comment "as it takes away negative connotation from selective and line breeding" in the fish game I believe a negative connotation is well deserved so I have decided to stick with 'Linebred' as a valid descriptor.
Sorry - I tried to give you a little win with the name ,but you threw it back in my face :-(
We have had this discussion solely focused on the aquarium /captive fish industry (and it is an industry, worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year worldwide) - but I read an article recently that brought to light a greater ecological impact and I quote"If you were to cross two different populations of the same species, say a Threadfin Ranbowfish from Arnhem Land with one from Southern PNG, you are effectively “undoing” about 13,000 years of separate evolutionary history. The progeny no longer represent what exists in the wild. If the mixed genes get back into the wild, deliberately or accidentally, we have effectively interrupted the evolution of the species. This is why serious keepers of some fish, and some conservationists, see crossing of wild types as equivalent to hybridisation in terms of evil practices."
And before you start jumping up and down - I know this refers to cross-breeding and hybridisation (synonymous) but the ramifications would be similar if say some linebred lemon bns were introduced back into the wild populations? Thousands of years of Natures work undone,
Yeah - line-bred does deserve a negative connotation because Iike the clown selling crosses (the original subject of this thread) need to know that this is not OK and can have ramifications far beyond what the individual could imagine.
Posted 06 December 2016 - 07:09 AM
Posted 06 December 2016 - 07:53 AM
Posted 06 December 2016 - 08:09 AM
if zoo's were to line breed say an all black or all white panda bear. It would not be right, even though it would have the same latin name.
An all black and all white panda would be awesome.
Posted 06 December 2016 - 06:34 PM
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