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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic
It says in the article that they actually have bred Yellow tangs as well in 2015. If they can breed both YTs and BTs in sufficient numbers, they can really help push this hobby towards a more sustainable future. Good for them to be working on something most people probably considered nearly impossible or at least economically unfeasible. I wonder how much these captive breds will go for at the LFS?
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You hit the nail on the head there. They go through a fairly long larval stage which is a high-maintenance stage and costs time and money. I just edited in a photo to the first post which shows fish on the cusp of metamorphosis where they change from larvae to fish and is considered "success". The photo is labeled 55 dph which is "days post hatch", so that's almost 2 months from egg to fish. Hopefully they can streamline it and actually offer them into the wholesale market. So far, the numerous species of captive bred fish from Rising Tide Conservation haven't really hit the market much at all even though they've bred and raised many species most people probably haven't even heard about - like the Yellow Tang. I'm not sure what their ultimate goal is, since it seems like every time they gain success with a species they just move on to another, so I'm not sure if they really are aiming for a wholesale market or not.