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zeketaz
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I have been looking into getting some shrimp and what I read is that they're not compatible do to crossbreeding. What is so bad about crossbreeding?
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Shinigami
 
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There isn't anything objectively bad about crossbreeding, but it can be argued on moral/ethical grounds.

First of all, crossbreeding results in organisms that are "unnatural", and I have found that most aquarists that are serious tend to want to keep things as natural as possible.

Secondly, crossbreeding makes it confusing for buyers of hybrid young, especially when sellers mislabel the animals as pure. This is an increasing problem with Synodontis species.

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EditedEdited 05-Jan-2010 00:18
As long as you are not intent on selling said shrimp and are raising them for your own use/enjoyment, there's really not much of a problem. It's when you trade/sell the shrimp or fish or dogs or cats that people get into a tizzy. What could possibly be wrong with mating a Wiener dog and a Saint Bernard?

Also this thread should have been posted in "Invertebrates".

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zeketaz
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I like variety and the shrimp I am interested in can crossbreed which i dont mind.

Kelly
I don't plan on selling them unless I start getting overrun then I would sell them as feeders, I heard after I posted that the offspring were ugly lol. I love your breeding a wiener dog and saint bernard. I could almost imagine what it would look like.
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