Aquaculture Captive bred yellow tangs! (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Chad Vossen
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veloboy
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Saw that, pretty cool. Wish this kind of stuff would take some of the pressure off the hobby-particularly from those like Snorkel Bob who are trying to shut it down. I would think it would help for us to be able to point to developments like this. Would be interesting to hear what Matt had to say about it.
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I'm sure a vertical silver bar swimming in the ocean confuses most predators. Doesn't look like food!
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Won't be long I'm sure. There are 100 or so in this batch, and a much larger batch that's two weeks behind them. The batch that's two weeks younger are numbering around 1000 I think I read. Though it's likely most will not make it to settlement yet.
With tangs spawning thousands of eggs at a time, we could potentially raise thousands at a time. Certainly possible to relieve pressure on wild fish if we can fine tune the process of rearing them.
Up next? Black tangs, Gem tangs, and aberrant tangs
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Also, I am pretty sure one key in this recent development is in the broodstock diet.
Up next? .......and aberrant tangs
This is the part that bothers me - captive populations of these fish will be fantastic, but so many wonderful fish have sort of been wrecked (e.g. many freshwater fish) by people focusing too much on the freaks and not maintaining good quality wild-type lines.
The silver also tends to reflect the surroundings (and probably also looks a bit like sunlight sparkling at the surface?), helping silvery fish of various sorts that live in open water to blend in.
Many planktonic creatures are transparent, which makes them hard to see. Ctenophores (e.g. sea walnuts) tend to be practically invisible until they are practically touching your snorkel mask, for example. But in the case of a fish, the internal organs prevent such complete transparency. The silver color for the visceral mass is interesting, and I would not have thought about its likely significance without your comment.
Very cool to see!
mathshop3
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Very cool read, thanks
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So, they had 187 yellow tangs in the first batch. Really cool video of them all on their facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/522631751248234/videos/530009463843796/
https://www.facebook.com/522631751248234/videos/530009463843796/
That video is awesome with 50+ tangs all schooling together.
has there been any movement to captive breed wrasses or anthias?
an accidental captive raise anthias....http://www.reef2rainforest.com/2015...captive-bred-anthias-at-long-island-aquarium/
and captive bred melanurus wrasses http://risingtideconservation.blogspot.com/2015/04/breaking-internet-check-out-our-wrasses.html
That video is awesome!
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Yes, actually. Melanaris wrasses have been done, and are actually fairly easy. Cleaner wrasses have been done, and work is being done to also rear the Hawaiian cleaner wrasse.
The first lyretail anthias was raised by my friend Noel at the long island aquarium this year as well. Another new species was recently raised too, and will be revealed in coral magazine.
Odontanthias fuscipinnis has been raised as well, and info can be found here - http://www.bluereefphoto.org/blog/2...f-the-yellow-anthias-odontanthias-fuscipinnis
eyeguy
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sweet
Davy Jones
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Awesome news about the Captive breeding advancements! But other than ORA and designer clowns i can never seem to find captive bred fish for sale anywhere? Is it because theyre just 1 or 2 small cases and not distributed yet?