Breeding of shrimps

**ken1971** · 2nd Mar 2012, 18:10

Hi to all,

I was just wondering.

When our shrimps breed, how many percent of the shrimplets follow the male line and how many percent follows the female line and how many percent are others?

Comments please.

Ken

**Navanod** · 2nd Mar 2012, 18:53

The genes are shared between the male and female and they are more or less totally random. Each parent contributes 50% of their genes to each shrimplets

**xconnect.** · 3rd Mar 2012, 03:13

It is fifty fifty like us so best is breed both parents with solid colours

**avex30** · 3rd Mar 2012, 09:41

Why do people do selective breeding? to get the best of both world

**ken1971** · 3rd Mar 2012, 10:57

Thanks for the comments.

So, if I breed an snow white with an crs, I will get 50% snow white and 50% crs.

But how about the grade of the shrimplets?

Ken

Will it be good or it will deteriorate from the original grade?

**avex30** · 3rd Mar 2012, 11:25

Originally Posted by ken1971

Thanks for the comments.

So, if I breed an snow white with an crs, I will get 50% snow white and 50% crs.

But how about the grade of the shrimplets?

Ken

Will it be good or it will deteriorate from the original grade?

It depend bro if you do a read some people oversea use snowhite to enchance the whiteness but your generation after that will have a tendency of producing white at lower pattern.

Example if let say your crs is pure breeding no mixing of whites. Unless you do extreme breeding meaning you take pattern that have more whites than red you will get snowwhite maybe 2-3 pieces.

But if you intro snowwhite into your crs breeding the tendency of it breeding out white at low pattern exist. So if you are just doing it for your own eye enjoyment yes. But some of the people breed to sell so it will not be that great for their buyer to come back and say hey your shrimp produce white.....

Especially if you are having those high end PRL that have been the argument all this while.

Hope it help for more info do a goggle

**Navanod** · 3rd Mar 2012, 11:52

Snow-white mated with CRS will produce all 100% CRS but with more "white" patterns and faded colored overall.
This topic is about genetics and is not so straight forward as there are recessive and dominant alleles at work, or homozygous and heterozygous genotypes.
What we can see in the shrimps is the phenotype. You may have to do quite abit of reading and understanding bro

**kiantkh** · 24th Mar 2012, 00:29

Originally Posted by Navanod

Snow-white mated with CRS will produce all 100% CRS but with more "white" patterns and faded colored overall.
This topic is about genetics and is not so straight forward as there are recessive and dominant alleles at work, or homozygous and heterozygous genotypes.
What we can see in the shrimps is the phenotype. You may have to do quite abit of reading and understanding bro

So if you got a batch of CRS-SnowWhite offsprings with faded colour, are there any methods(for example crossing with solid coloured CRS?) to permanently improve the colour?

**newlife** · 24th Mar 2012, 01:46

Breeding a solid coloration x solid coloration will also have low lousy quality shrimp....
But at a lower percentage.....

**cheetf** · 24th Mar 2012, 09:05

What do you get when you breed cull X cull then?

**newlife** · 24th Mar 2012, 12:59

Hahaha...good question...
Culls x Culls...
I used to have a 2 feet planted where I dump in my culls...
There might pop up some nice pieces...
Overall depends on the parental genes I believe