I am interested in your thoughts on selective breeding as I am working at breeding a more colourful strain of shrimp that I have sourced from my local river. We do not have a wide variety of shrimp available here in australia and I would like to do my part.
I have a good brood stock of about 30 females and 10 males. My plan is to take out generation 1 and leave generation 2, from which I remove non colourful shrimp. Then keep repeating this process.
My concern is though that by doing this I will end up interbreeding too much in the long term. I am thinking perhaps that after a few generations I can go for another shrimp adventure and source a few (only a few, say 5 female and 5 male) new strains of only the most colourful ones I can find.
Here are some pictures of my breeders.
A pic of some of the shrimp against a white background as to get an accurate show of their colour.
Male blue
Female Blue, not quite this blue in real life
I have a good brood stock of about 30 females and 10 males. My plan is to take out generation 1 and leave generation 2, from which I remove non colourful shrimp. Then keep repeating this process.
My concern is though that by doing this I will end up interbreeding too much in the long term. I am thinking perhaps that after a few generations I can go for another shrimp adventure and source a few (only a few, say 5 female and 5 male) new strains of only the most colourful ones I can find.
Here are some pictures of my breeders.
A pic of some of the shrimp against a white background as to get an accurate show of their colour.
Male blue
Female Blue, not quite this blue in real life