Twilight Zone Fish

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Posted by Erin Smith on February 03, 2000 at 01:15:34:

I have created mutant twilight zone fish...

I was trying to breed a pure breeding strain of white tailed tuxes, just like the ones from the CD. So I bred a pair, bred two of the offspring, etc down to the 9th generation.

Did the same with that generation, and they had 6 fry, 4 males 2 females. I named/numbered them like this:
Number Gender Color VCP
F10-WT-01 -- Female -- N/A -- 56/46/57
F10-WT-02 -- Male -- Grey -- 57/46/56
F10-WT-03 -- Female -- N/A -- 56/46/57
F10-WT-04 -- Male -- White -- 39/46/57
F10-WT-05 -- Male -- White -- 56/46/57
F10-WT-06 -- Male -- White -- 56/46/57

Bred two of these (01 and 05) and got six fry, 2 females, 4 males, with EXACTLY the same stats as above, colors, numbers, etc.

Ok... bred two of those. Got the exact same results AGAIN. Only thing that's changing here is the names of the fish (The number after the F goes up by 1 each time). I get to F12 and decide enough of this, maybe I inbred too much... I crossed back a female from the F7 generation.

She had 6 fry, 4 male, 2 female... the EXACT SAME STATS AGAIN!

Argh!

Finally broke out of it by breeding to a female from the F1 generation... but that was just WAYYYY to weird! Just thought I'd share my weird twilight zone fish... heh. Gonna save these to drive my sister up the wall... "Hey, I'm phycic! I bet that if I breed any two of these fish in this file I'll get babies with these exact stats and colors!"

I wanted them to breed true, but that's a little overboard!

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