This is an amazing marine clown and angel fish farm. I didn’t realize there are so many clowns and hybridization effort to produce infinite varieties. Marine ornamental fish used to be only wild caught using destructive means. I’m glad that many are now captive bred for the hobby.
Amazing clown fish and angel hatchery
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More and more captive bred reef fish are popping up nowadays. The trick is really just how little we know about how they breed and how different their life cycles are compared to fw (often larval stages that filtration would destroy).
Check out biota and ora for a long list of what’s being commonly bred.
I hope to one day see captive bred become the standard for all of the marine fish, especially with more and more bans making once popular fish impossible to get.
The clownfish are a shame though. The appeal to me has always been the wild type orange and white bands (though the black and white banded morphs have a special place in my heart). Not sure why someone would want something that resembles a black moor goldfish more than Nemo + all the health issues that come with it. Hopefully that doesn’t extend to every captive bred marine fish.
Check out biota and ora for a long list of what’s being commonly bred.
I hope to one day see captive bred become the standard for all of the marine fish, especially with more and more bans making once popular fish impossible to get.
The clownfish are a shame though. The appeal to me has always been the wild type orange and white bands (though the black and white banded morphs have a special place in my heart). Not sure why someone would want something that resembles a black moor goldfish more than Nemo + all the health issues that come with it. Hopefully that doesn’t extend to every captive bred marine fish.
The debate on the virtue of pure breed versus hybrid breed has been around for a long time for freshwater fish. I see an issue with FW fish, specially cichlid as they hybridize readily in aquariums, not so with marine fish as it is next to impossible to breed in reef ranks.
I think there is evidence of natural hybrids of certain marine angels. I don’t personally hate hybrids as long as they’re marketed as such. My main issue comes with the wildly inbred clowns (just like goldfish, Oscars, bulldogs, etc) that are basically unrecognizable from the wild type and unhealthy as a result.
Yes, hybrid marine angels have been caught and they command very high price due to rarity. Coral reefs are biological islands that promote speciation. But in rare occasions, fish from one island are blown over to another island in storm events creating opportunity for hybridization. Natural hybridization of FW fish have also occurred and witnessed by fish collectors, often caused by human activities such as canal construction.
Yes, artificial hybridization of ornamental fish receives a lot of criticism, specially among cichlid keepers. Not much is said about inbreeding pure gene though that can lead to poor health and short life, as witnessed by pure breed dog and fancy goldfish. Whereas wild looking koi can live over 100 years, pure breed fancy goldfish only live a few years. The longest living animal on record is a koi in a Japanese temple that lived to 226 years. Many of our aquacultured food fish such as stripe bass and tilapia are hybrids because they are more hardy, so are many of our crops and domesticated animal.
Only recently that coral fish are bred and cultured successfully in scale. It's amazing that all crown fish are born male, only the dominant one changes sex later to breeding female, so are groupers and other marine fish. FW fish have been known to change sex too, but it is an anomaly rather than a natural progression. There is a lot we don't know about marine fish as breeding them in captive environment is nearly impossible.
And the reverse occurs in wrasse species, all born female and i think also in the dwarf angel centropyge genus.