brilliant hybrids

[Richard B]

Well not really, what i mean is that they were as close as a gnat's whisker to being genuine & i had to look very closely to see differences. Thirty quid each for these too.

The tail is right, body ok, fins right , spots etc but there was an "odd" look to them & the only discernable thing to report is that in the dorsal there were a few odd flecks of black in the white portion - i have NEVER seen this in a specimen i know to be genuine. I am seriously woried now that the hybrid thing is now getting so advanced i'll not be able to tell anything soon

[Birger]

What species were they a duplicate of ?

[Richard B]

Doh! Sorry my bad - multipunctata

(i think i mentioned it in a separate post about otocinclus in the Loricariid forum)

[JamieH]

Theres a lot coming over from europe and there selling them as the real deal which clearly they are not, most retailers just mark up as what they ordered not what they are.

I know one shop selling them as true pure breds when its clears they are hybrids.

[Richard B]

This is quite the norm IME - these ones though were almost perfect copies of the real thing - i've never seen hybrids so close before.

[Birger]

Did you manage to get a pic of one?

[Bijn]

There is one thing I don't understand: is it so much easier to breed hybrids then pure specimens


if the answer is no, then for god's sake, why???

[Richard B]

Did you manage to get a pic of one?

It was an impromptu visit whilst on the way to my parents so i didn't have a camera

[jippo]

Not a good news at all

I was a little bit shocked when I saw that hybrid decora on other thread, it had even branched barbels like decora should have. Doesn't sound good at all.

[Richard B]

It just gets worse.......

Today i saw perfect little multis, except they had a hard white dorsal spine!