what will baby fry bred from a fantail and subunkin turn out to be? fantail, shubunkin or mixture of both?

Answer 1

Considering that any goldfish is a "human bred" fish, the first answer doesn't quite hold up. "Wild" type goldfish are a bronze color with a single tail.

If your fish were purchased through a typical pet store, rather than a breeder, they probably already have quite a mix in their genes. And "fantail" and "shubunkin" aren't single genes, but a mix of several. For instance, you'd have at least one that controls the tail being single or double. And others (one or more each) would control body shape, color, etc. So there will be a lot of different variants among the fry.

I would predict more of the single than double tails (although you may get a 50-50 mix or all of one type without knowing the genes of the parents), a continuous range of body shapes (from the extreme of the fantail to the extreme of the shub, and everything in between). I can't even begin to predict the color, because a shub should have at least three colors in the body, and you don't say the color of the fantail, but you should get a mix here as well.

Answer 2

more than likly they would turn out to look like a shubumpkin, or laws of genetics would say so anyway. laws of genetics say that in any straight crossing between a "wild looking" animal and a "fancy human bred" animal, the young will look like the wild one,
for example, cross a pure white mouse with a brown wild one and the babies will be wild coloured.

so followin this theory, the babies would just look like shubumpkins rather than a fantail because the shub is the "WILD" looking fish shape

Answer 3

id say a fanbunkin... just because i like the sound of the name :-)