Check this out/ is this all bull????

Subject: Check this out/ is this all bull???? Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:47 am

Ok so this is a local buy/sell site we have here. Look at the crap this guy is talking. Can any of you make sense of it?

http://www.pricenetwork.ca/deal/Scarboroug...0-1-212536.html

Subject: Re: Check this out/ is this all bull???? Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:33 am

Read through the whole thing.....wow I am confused really.

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Subject: Re: Check this out/ is this all bull???? Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:05 am

Kinda looks like the stages that blood parrots go through as they mature.

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Subject: Re: Check this out/ is this all bull???? Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:11 am

Looks like totally different fish to me. Seems like a bunch of bull.

Subject: Re: Check this out/ is this all bull???? Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:22 am

Thats what I was thinking, a bunch of different fish.

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"There he goes - one of God's own prototypes -
a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

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The Turtle Whisperer Posts: 1914

Yea. Those are different fish.

Parrots do go through weird color morphs. I had some breed unplanned either with a flowerhorn or another parrot, and I managed to save two of the babies.

They were originally a shade darker than turd brown, and have since slowly have been lightening up. One looks splotchy, and one has more pronounced stripes. Neither of them though has been that dramatic a change as they're trying to claim in that slide show.

Subject: Re: Check this out/ is this all bull???? Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:55 pm

I don't think it is bull but it is a very poor explanation for what he has accomplished.

The first slide show shows the "adult" color of that hybrid monster coming out. At the end he does show a different species and the various pictures do not follow one fish but does show the transformation he has gotten those fish to do through selective breeding.

The EBJD slide show is a poor rendition of a known fact. You can't breed two EBJD together and get viable fry. What you have to do is breed two normal looking JD that carry the gene for EBJD. Because that gene is recessive you don't see the expression until they have offspring.

My take is that his skills with fish outstrip his explanation ability. So he is quite confusing. With what he is showing being possible the only question remains is whether he is doing that or just blowing smoke.