both fish look similar except the ciclid has orange on it's fins and blue around the mouth. Of course one would have to be Male and the other female. I always wondered that if like people and Dogs, do fish and will they crossbreed. Considering the temp is right and the aquarium is good for both What do you think?
2007-12-27 18:41:34 · 6 answers · asked by badboys525 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
There are hundreds of species of Cichlids, so the one you may be describing is likely different than the epitomy of Cichlids. Either way, Cichlids and Bluegills are not related closely enough to interbreed, but many Cichlids can breed with different species of Cichlids and produce fertile offspring. Many livebearers can do the same thing. It is possible, but not for your fish.
Common hybrids- mule (donkey+horse), liger (lion+tiger) (yeah! the ARE real) Guppy/Endler's mix (Guppy+Endler's), Flowerhorn Cichlid (Midas Cichlid+Red Devil+uncertain species) and MANY others.
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EDIT: There are South American and African Cichlids, and among them, there are quite a few that share a habitat similar to that of the Bluegill (the Texas Cichlid most notably). Their parameters are not restricting their breeding, it is their genetics, they are COMPLETELY different fish and have very little in common genetically.
2007-12-27 18:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The blue gill may look similar, but is not part of the cichlid family. The blue gill is a sunfish. These are two completely different families. I don't think hybridization is a possibility.
2007-12-27 18:57:36 · answer #2 · answered by Quiet Tempest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know i have tried cross breeding but didn't work they only seem to like their same species I tride breeding some bluemoon platy with some black tailed molly fishes, but it come out thje same, the fishes never liked other species except for their family of the same kind
2007-12-27 18:45:41 · answer #3 · answered by LatinoPinoy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If both of them are different species of fish, they cannot. They're sterile and will only breed naturally with their own species. Thats why when people breed the Tiger and the Lion to make the Liger, they have to force them.
You can't force them with fish, but you could inseminate them I suppose. The fish's body might reject it though. Your best best would be biotechnology. You would have to grab certain genes you want to appear in your new fish and shoot them using gold into a blank egg cell. You could also introduce those genes using viruses. The viruses inject their DNA into other cells, so people found out that they could use it to inject DNA of their choice.
2007-12-27 18:49:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
ok its possible for fish to cross bread but not for your pair.. bluegill are coldwater american fish cichlids are from south american and in warmer waters. yes they can be mixed in aquaria but that would never work becasue a bluegills perfect breeding condition is soft substrate like mud and sandy weedy with lots of bog wood nearby to rub against and they like soft water unlike cichlid who loke a mre acidic and a hard rocky gravly substrte and 78 degree watr to reach perfect breeding and a blue gill likes a calmer cooler 68 water big difference in fish world a cichlid would die at 68 a gill thrives
2007-12-27 18:48:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are too genetically diverse and will not cross breed.
2007-12-27 21:35:59 · answer #6 · answered by stargrazer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋