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Keeping Lineages Intensive inbreeding is often done by many breeders to achieve genetic goals. To get rid of red wash in a blue line, for example, it is common practice to select the cleanest fish from each spawn and cross them for many generations until the red fault is finally bred out of the line. This is a great way to improve on lines, but unfortunately inbreeding might also result in the proliferation of harmful or less desirable recessive alleles. Therefore in breeding for specific characteristics, other less characteristic such as a diminished body size or reduced vigour. A better way to do it would be to do line breeding, and there are several ways to do it. One way would be to select 2 suitable pairs from a spawn, and Still under maintenance! Expected completion date : Sometime after 28/11
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