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	Green Severum bred with yellow severum?
quick_silver_2694 Fish Addict Posts: 872 Kudos: 57 Votes: 1 Registered: 23-Jan-2002	My friends severums bred, we thought they were both males but turns out they laid eggs. What color will the babies be?!? I'm curious to know never knew that they would mix breed. [span class="edited"][Edited by 2004-08-09 15:38][/span]
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
greenmonkey51 Fish Master Posts: 1571 Kudos: 1692 Votes: 5 Registered: 28-Jan-2004	well im going back to when i did genetics in biology but the green sev should have the dominant genes so most of them should be green but some of them could be gold
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
sirbooks Moderator Sociopath Posts: 3875 Kudos: 5164 Votes: 932 Registered: 26-Jul-2004	I think that most, if not all of the severums will turn out green. And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
Tetra Fan Mega Fish Posts: 1203 Kudos: 1081 Votes: 63 Registered: 11-Apr-2004	Like greenmonkey51 said, the green color trait is dominant so most likely more then 50% of the spawn would be green, but the other 50% cuold be gold or green. You just have to wait 'till they grow up I guess. Great job to your friend for getting them to spawn though They aren't the easiest fish to spawn
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
greenmonkey51 Fish Master Posts: 1571 Kudos: 1692 Votes: 5 Registered: 28-Jan-2004	i dont think that it would be half and half if they have all green trait genes and all yellow trait genes. then they would be green. but if either had a recessive gene in them then a few would end up gold
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
Fishdude Enthusiast Posts: 167 Kudos: 16 Votes: 0 Registered: 30-Oct-2002	I am pretty sure that the recessive gene will show up 25% of the time... so 25% should be gold. [span class="edited"][Edited by fishdude 2004-08-15 01:46][/span]
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
Dolf Enthusiast Posts: 203 Kudos: 180 Votes: 46 Registered: 09-May-2004	I have no idea what the green/gold proportions will be. I would, however like to know if the eggs hatch. I have 2 pair of sevs and 1 of the males is gold. My local sev expert told me that green/gold pairings rarely result in furtile eggs.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
Silverlight Enthusiast Posts: 212 Kudos: 396 Votes: 43 Registered: 04-Jul-2004	If it's actually controlled by a single gene, then Greenmonkey is correct. If the green Sev has the recessive gold-color gene, then roughly half of the fry will be pure gold. Otherwise, they'll all be green. Now, if those fry happen to interbreed, then a quarter of the grandchildren will be gold. Most color traits, however, aren't controlled by a single gene, so it probably isn't that easy.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03


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