ACF cross-breeding

[TommyBoi]

Hey there...I just wanted to throw out an idea for some possibly cool crossbreeds....I do KNOW that Borealis & Laevis are inter-breedable....years ago, I bred a male adult Borealis, with an albino laevis, but all the tads died...I'm really hoping to one day, somehow, do this same trial, and have the tads successfully make it to froglets. I believe the male hybrid offspring would be ''sterile'', but the females would be fertile...so from that batch...would it be possible to breed one of them, with an albino laevis male, etc...I want to see an albino with some form of Borealis traits, like their shape, or some reticulated spotting, soemthing unique...if anyone has ANY ideas on any cross-breeding ideas, let me know...this time around tho, my Borealis male, I think, is a lil too small to grab fully onto my albino retic female. But soem crossbreeds might be very interesting to see pop up!!!! Just thought I'd bring it up, and see if anyone has ever tried anything similar with laevis or other clawed frogs...

[Jenste]

it is defintely interesting - I plan on doing the same in the future - just to look at the size of my male borealis and my albino female laevis - the scale difference is so funny, the idea of him amplexing her is enough to make me laugh!

I will probably have more luck with a male laevis to a female borealis due to size.

I also have a runt laevis - full grown male at 2.5 inches. I may mate him with the borealis female because their sizes work perfectly - - hmm. maybe some future experiment!

[rodsboys]

It would be interesting to see some hybrids. I would imagine in the wild where some species overlap it is possible to have occured naturally. I wonder how reliable the whole sterile males thing is though.
On the flip side I don't know if I would want to see the market go that way. I use to breed clownfish a while back. Years ago any kind of misbar or deformation was considered no good. Now a breeder putting out pure species standard specimens is the one considered to be breeding undisirable specimens.
I would like to see more color morphs, but without the cross breeding.

[TommyBoi]

Hey Jenna, I've noticed that the female Borealis, seem to do a LOT more wild thrashing, when grabbed onto by a male. They go stiff for a second or 2, then they jerk their entire body, and it looks like an underwater rodeo...it looks fairly different than a female leavis...hopefully we can do the cross-breeding sometime in the not-too-distant future ;o) P.S. Still trying to get my 2 adult females to breeding moods...but they keep doing the uninterested ''rapping''. The albino male is More than ready, and hes over year old. I just dont know what to do, to get the females in the mood..getting the males in the mood, is farily easy...I take them from the group tank, and put him in a larger, breeding tank by himself, for a day or more, and that does the trick most of the time, and they start their serenade ;o)