airriick Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Ok! So I've been seeing a lot of tanks having TB x Pinto. Correct me if I'm wrong, but pinto is from crs x tiger = pinto? Wouldn't pinto x tb make a ton of random mischlings? From the pictures I've seen no one has any mischlings in their tanks! I'd love to have tb x pinto in one tank. I would be worried of all the random Mischlings messing up all the genes of my TB. My tb breeds true, have not seen one miscalling ever since I've had them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vshrimp Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Pinto= TBx Tibee (Tiger x Crs/cbs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airriick Posted December 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Pinto= TBx Tibee (Tiger x Crs/cbs)Thank you if you don't mind.. What are titaibee? Lol its like everyone is mixing everything now.Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vshrimp Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Pintos are basically taitibee. Just a certain pattern is my understanding. airriick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenteam Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 What is a Tibee? A tibee is a hybrid between any Tiger (OEBT - orange eye blue tiger or also blonde tiger) - and usually a Taiwan Bee (TB) OR can also be hybrid between any Tiger and Crystals - CBS (Crystal Black Shrimp) and CRS (Crystal Red Shrimp). The preference is to cross with a Taiwan Bee. Since TBs are rarer and more expensive, you might not have enough TBs to breed. Using a Tiger as a partner to the Taiwan Bee, will ensure some genes are carried over when you cross the Tibee back with the Taiwan Bee parent. It's offspring could yield some Taiwan Bees. Crystals are more common. So a Tibee from TigerXCrystal is not as sought after. But nature can throw up some amazing colours from this hybrid too. I am working on a TigerXCRS myself to try to get some Red Tiger tibees. What is a TaiTibee? A Taitibee is a Tibee crossed back to a Taiwan Bee. What is a Pinto? A Pinto is a colour variation and type of Taitibee. There are multiple variants of patterns: Spotted Head Zebra Fancy (Things like Fishbone, Skunk, and other new patterns been worked on now) Wygglz, Fishprinceofca, dhenry7711 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slycat929 Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 So, in general, are most people keeping their pintos with other TB or are you separating them? If you sell offspring from a mixed TB and pinto population, are you letting the buyers know that there could be pinto genes mixed in? As I understand it, once you have pinto genes mixed in, they could throw a random pinto even many generations later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaykidding Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Yeah that's what I did, I had a male blue bolt or shadow panda interbreed with my belly pinto female. From the 2 batches of offspring I got zebra pintos, belly pintos, and blue bolts, I think even one BKK too airriick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaykidding Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 I mix them for fun and may seperate the TBs later on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airriick Posted December 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 Sweet, thank you all for the information. I understand now So, in general, are most people keeping their pintos with other TB or are you separating them? If you sell offspring from a mixed TB and pinto population, are you letting the buyers know that there could be pinto genes mixed in? As I understand it, once you have pinto genes mixed in, they could throw a random pinto even many generations later. No sure if this is directed towards me, but I have them with a few TBs but not with my big colony. Waiting for 3 more tanks to arrive so I can start being more selective Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slycat929 Posted December 13, 2015 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 Sorry, airriick, that wasn't really directed towards you. It was just a general question. Some purists feel that pinto genes are an unwanted trait in TB lines, as they are then no longer pure lines. I have decided that I am mixing my TB with the pintos, I just was wondering how others felt about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETAquarium Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 All depends on what your end goal is. For instance even with Taiwan Bees several people including myself like to separate the lines, instead of mixing them all together. Pintos are no different, some people love the mixture and different patterns, whereas some like to separate tanks to pinto projects and cull all unwanted patterns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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