Re: hybrids
I guess it depends on how you think of line breeding... yes the stock is pure, but you're cutting out the majority of the variability in the animal so it's no longer the way nature made it, and a designer animal. I dunno, line breeding has it's pros and cons... done well, you can still have a genetically healthy animal, but just not very variable in phenotype. Or you could have a horridly inbred animal with health issues. But... with a line bred animal you can breed them back to the type animal and they would show more of the variability again, in a way partially undoing the line breeding. You can never undo a hybrid!
Cichlids and PDFs have similar things that make them interesting... they have more complex social interactions because of their aggression, which makes them a bit more complicated and harder to set up successfully with no issues, but more entertaining to wait long term because they interact with each other rather than just be pretty little flits of color in the tank.
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