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Katarine
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Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« on: January 28, 2010, 10:35:25 PM »
Just out of idle curiosity, can you breed koi and goldfish together? Make koldfish or something? I just thought maybe because they're in the same family and some people might be interested in breeding for traits in the fish. Does anyone know???
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bamsl
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2010, 10:46:24 PM »
Yes, goldfish and koi can be bred but their offspring will be sterile, meaning they will not be able to reproduce.
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Katarine
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2010, 10:48:20 PM »
so they're like breeding horses with mules... Okay that makes sense then. are those offspring prone to any genetic mutations?
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Katarine
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 10:59:29 PM »
haha oh crap i'm in the wrong section...WHOOPS Thanks for your help though! Smiley
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bamsl
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 11:09:23 PM »
I guess the mule has some similarities to this. The reason why most mules are sterile is because of a chromosome mismatch from the parents (a horse has 64 chromosomes and a donkey has 62, so the mule only has 63 chromosomes).  It could be something similar that occurs with the offspring of a goldfish and koi, though i'm not certain.  Genetic mutations are often random and hard to predict.
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Katarine
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2010, 11:22:05 PM »
very very true. Thank you! Smiley
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calaguas
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2010, 09:05:22 AM »
maybe in the future..
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Katarine
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2010, 01:12:25 PM »
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maybe in the future..

What do you mean maybe in the future? Breeding goldfish and koi is a very real possibility today
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calaguas
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2010, 01:50:02 AM »
no... i said maybe the goldfish and koi can be cross breed.. and i know it can be breed to day... cause i can breed may goldfish... and koi can be breed in a mud pond..
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Re: Breeding Koi and Goldfish
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2010, 11:11:53 PM »
Koi and goldfish can breed producing a hybrid.  The only ones I have seen were wild orange koi crossed with wild dark goldfish resulting in fish closely resembling goldfish.
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