Well things don't always work the way they are suppose to, if they did there wouldn't be any questions..

I have seen a good few births that look to be parthenogenic, and the majority of them seem to come from young males breeding, or litters with high slug counts. My speculation is it's some type of throw back genetic reproductive back up, that some reptiles and amphibians seem to have..

A friend of mine bred a salmon to an argentine recently, and had only 3 live babies with the rest of the litter slugs. It was a male hypo bred to an argentine, and the 3 babies are the spitting image of pure argies. (I have seen pleanty of crosses and these don't look like them) I don't think he's had a chance to sex them yet, but I bet they are girls..

What was the out come on the sexes of Ceilias hypo motley litter anyway?
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